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God raised up extraordinary individuals of faith to rebuild the Jerusalem temple and prepare for the Messiah’s coming. Ezra and Nehemiah offer hope and comfort by showing us what God accomplishes through his people’s faithful labors—and, more importantly, through Jesus Christ, who fully accomplished our salvation through his perfect life, atoning death, and glorious resurrection. God continues to...

The gifts for the temple not only testify to the generosity of the people, but also to their affluence, although much of the gold and silver had been entrusted to them before they returned by their neighbors for the purpose of contributing to the temple (Ezra 1:4, 6). If the gold was valued in darics (see the second textual note on Ezra 2:69), the total weight was about 512 kilograms or 1,130 pounds. If they were drachmas, the weight was about
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