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While many of the Hebrew aristocracy deported to Babylon seventy years earlier, as a reprisal for their rebelling against Babylonian rule, had settled into life in Babylon, about 40,000 of them were motivated to return to Judah to try to reclaim their ancestral land, and were also motivated by a desire to re-establish the destroyed temple as the centre of their religious leanings, which had remained strong, even if it had been modified by absorbing aspects of the Babylonian religions.

They were influenced by prophecies and a desire to re-establish their religious centre in Jerusalem where Judaism had been centred by Jewish King Josiah over a hundred years earlier. The temple had been destroyed by the Babylonians at the time of the deportation seventy years earlier as part of the Babylonian Nebuchadnezzar's efforts to suppress the revolutionary spirit of the Judeans.

Cyrus the Persian king, who ruled the empire after having conquered the Babylonian empire was well disposed to granting requests of his peoples provided they were reasonable and not destabilising, and readily allowed them to return, led by Zerubbabel, to their ancestral land and re-establish their cult centre in Jerusalem.

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