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[84]
But when the Samaritans, who were still enemies to the tribes of
Judah and Benjamin, heard the sound of the trumpets, they came running
together, and desired to know what was the occasion of this tumult; and
when they perceived that it was from the Jews, who had been carried captive
to Babylon, and were rebuilding their temple, they came to Zorobabel and
to Jeshua, and to the heads of the families, and desired that they would
give them leave to build the temple with them, and to be partners with
them in building it; for they said, "We worship their God, and especially
pray to him, and are desirous of their religious settlement, and this ever
since Shalmanezer, the king of Assyria, transplanted us out of Cuthah and
Media to this place." When they said thus, Zorobabel and Jeshua the
high priest, and the heads of the families of the Israelites, replied to
them, that it was impossible for them to permit them to be their partners,
whilst they [only] had been appointed to build that temple at first by
Cyrus, and now by Darius, although it was indeed lawful for them to come
and worship there if they pleased, and that they could allow them nothing
but that in common with them, which was common to them with all other men,
to come to their temple and worship God there.
Flavius Josephus. The Works of Flavius Josephus. Translated by. William Whiston, A.M. Auburn and Buffalo. John E. Beardsley. 1895.
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