Ezra 6:22

22They observed the Feast of Unleavened Bread for seven days with joy, for the Lord had caused them to rejoice and had turned the heart of 6:22 One of the many titles of Darius king of Persia, in the sense that Persia had conquered territories that were previously Assyrian.the king of Assyria toward them, so that he encouraged them and strengthened their hands in the work of the house of God, the God of Israel.