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Ezra 4:1-2
Revised Standard Version
Ezra 4:1-2
Revised Standard Version
Resistance to Rebuilding the Temple
4 Now when the adversaries of Judah and Benjamin heard that the returned exiles were building a temple to the Lord, the God of Israel, 2 they approached Zerub′babel and the heads of fathers’ houses and said to them, “Let us build with you; for we worship your God as you do, and we have been sacrificing to him ever since the days of E′sar-had′don king of Assyria who brought us here.”
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