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3 illustrations — Lessons from history, biography, and world events
These were new settlers, their survival dependent upon immediately cultivating their property and erecting shelter.
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When the Temple of Jerusalem was completed after twenty-three years of struggle, opposition, and bureaucratic entanglement, the narrative does not first credit the masons' hands or the Persian king's decree.
Maclaren penetrates their strategy: the mingled people—descendants of ancient northern kingdom remnants and successive waves of Assyrian and Babylonian colonists—recognized that the Jews, though numerically smaller, possessed legitimate claim to the land under Cyrus's decree.