trouble accounting for the presence of Jews in Babylon. Many had remained there when thousands of their countrymen returned from the Babylonian Captivity to Judea under Cyrus and again at the time of Ezra and Nehemiah. (See the exposition of the Books of Ezra and Nehemiah.) The teacher will also find Daniel 2:48; 5:11 instructive here. Therefore the wise men must have heard from Jews the precious prophecies of the Messiah-king and been won to faith in them.1 It was a wonderul, miraculous star
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