1 Esdras 5:63-65

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⁶³ and when the enemies of the tribe of Judah and Benjamin heard it, they came to find out what the sound of the trumpets meant.^{(A) 64} They learned that those who had returned from exile were building the temple for the Lord God of Israel. ⁶⁵ So they approached Zerubbabel and Jeshua and the heads of the ancestral houses and said to them, “We will build with you.^(B)