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Zerubbabel, Jeshua, and the Tribal Leaders: You have nothing in common with us! You are not heirs to the Lord’s promise to Abraham. King Cyrus of Persia has commanded us to build the Eternal God of Israel’s temple, so we will do it by ourselves.

To intimidate the returning Jews from building, the people of the land made the returning exiles afraid to build and bribed counselors to hinder the Jews’ efforts throughout the reigns of Cyrus and Darius, the kings of Persia.

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