Now when the adversaries of Judah and Benjamin heard that the children of the captivity built the temple unto the LORD God of Israel;
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Bede
AD 735
For the king gave permission to all those who had been freed from the injustice of captivity that whoever wished might, with the Lord's guidance, go up to build the temple. Yet he did not order everyone to go up there, for if there were any among the same people of God whom it pleased more to make use of the liberty given to them in any other places, he ordered that these people, each one from his own place, should assist those who were going up, namely by giving them money and livestock for their needs on such a long journey. But he desired that they also give and entrust other gifts to them that they should offer in the Lord's temple when they arrived there in memory of those who sent them. Therefore, all were freed from the Babylonian captivity, all dedicated themselves to acts of devotion, but only the more perfect went up to build a temple for the Lord. The rest aided those who went up, because even if all the elect, after being freed from the power of darkness, attain the freedom...
