So moving on to the period of the 2nd Temple. Do we build it, do we not build it, do we even need at temple? Well during this period the second temple built to replace the first temple gets destroyed anyways (but we haven't really talked about that yet). Persian had liberated the people from Jerusalem from the Babylonians. I think it was more, "yeah we took over Babylonian!" then "wow how did all of these people get here?". So adopted this cool way of ruling people in a friendly kind of way. Sent all the people that had been exiled from Jerusalem back to the city with money to build a new temple (o ya, leave, be ruled by me, but I'll let you be free). Pretty smart I say, a happy employee is a good one, definitely better than a dead one.
HOWEVER!!! this transitions of the exiled people of Jerusalem back to Jerusalem were their are already people living there (old people of Jerusalem meshed with people shoved in there from the Babylonians). Some people don't want to change how they are living and others do. The city expanded but there was conflict among the people. It was a fight to build the temple.
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