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RETURN OF TRE JElVS FROM TIABYLON. 199
7. Those who were most brave ancl courageous they placed
on the oiitposts of tho city, well unnecl, in order to keep ofl'
the oncmy, while those wllo mcrc sliilled in masonry ant1
otllcr lnechnnicnl arts, cirricd on the work. At the. end of
fifty-lrvo days all the rvalls and rainpark werc! completed,
Tile Samuritnns, swing t11n.t the hand of God was thcrc,
ceascrl to tronble thcir ~leighbors.
8. The Jclva, m~tlcrstnncling tlint they had becn successful
in rebuilding thc telnplc nncl thc walls of Jcr~tsslem in spite
of sn Inany ol)staclos, retunlctl sincere thnl~lrs to Gotl. And
Esdrns, the high-pricst, ha~*ing publicly rcad thc ln~v of the
Lord, they all promiserl, wit11 tears, to be Ltithfiil to it. Par
they Irad rectti~~cd :L 11t:rn and strong proof tllnt God hnrl forgiven
their own sins, and th~ ingrirLiturlc of their fntl~era.
QUESTIONS.
1. What Iiacl the prophet Jerernias foretold? Who had renewed
this promiee? Adding ~r-l~at? 2. \Vliat had brought the Jewish
peoplo to a scnstt of their dtity P 'IIThnt cdict did Cyrtrs, Icing of Persin,
issue, by divine inspirzliori ? 3. \Vllst ditl lie also rcstore to the
#Jews 9 Under whose 1e:ulership ditl the Jews return from captivity?
What sernn~nts 11ad long before joined thctn.selves to the tribee of
Jri~la and Benjamin 'r Iiom long was 5 t after the rcturtl from captivity
that the foanclations of tlie new temple wcrc? laid in Jerrisalem?
3. TYIiat did many of the old poople (10 who reinelnbcratl llre former
temple? Who consolocl theiri? With what assurance ? By what.
other prophet was the same prediction ~nrrrie? 6. EIow long was it
aftor their return from czptirity thnt tile Jews cclmrncnced to rebuild
tho walls of Jerilsnleln? By whose cornmnnd did t.llep cornlnence?
Who opposed them? Rt~t whrttdid tho Jew do? 7. Whnt
did tho Ba~naritnlls do, ~eeing that the hanrl nf God was there? 8.
Wh~t did the Jcws clo whe~z the! worlr mna finisllod? Who red the
law pnblicly 7 What did the Jews protllise to do P