Because the prophet Haggai told them, in the name of God, to do so.
The prophet Haggai commanded them to, in the name of God.
The neighboring peoples harassed them.
Yes. In 539 BCE, King Cyrus the Great of Persia gave permission for the Jews of Babylon to return to their ancestral homeland and rebuild the Temple.
To go back to their homeland and rebuild the Holy Temple.
Haggai was a prophet who along with Zechariah encouraged the returned Jewish exiles to rebuild the temple in Jerusalem after the Babylonian exile 2500 years ago. Based on verse 2:3 in the book of Haggai, he may have directly witnessed the destruction of Solomon's temple.
About 40,000 of them returned to the Holy Land and built the Second Temple. The rest remained in Babylonia and their other places of exile.
The Persian king Cyrus after he defeated the Babylonians, released the Israelites who were taken prisoners by the Assyrians He allowed them to take the temple vessels and helped rebuild the destroyed temple..
The goal of Zionism is for Jews to live in our ancestral homeland in peace. There is no plan to touch the Dome on the Rock nor to rebuild the Temple in the Zionist mandate.
The Jews of the Babylonian Exile were granted the right to return to the Land of Israel, and rebuild the Temple which had been destroyed by Nebuhadnetzer.
Jews have returned to Jerusalem. However, there is no Jewish group seriously considering rebuilding the Temple as this would require destroying the Dome of the Rock Shrine of the Muslims and probably start a massive war.
The tradition is that it was Cyrus the Great, king of Persia. Additionally: King Cyrus of Persia made a decree allowing the Jewish exiles to return to Jerusalem to rebuild the Temple. The construction of the Temple continued under King Darius and was completed in 516 BCE. (Ezra 6:15).
He made a proclamation inviting the Jews to return to Israel (Judea) and rebuild Solomon's Temple under Ezra. This made the Second Temple Era possible.
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