they approached Zerubbabel and the heads of ancestral houses and said to them, “Let us build with you, for we seek your God just as you do, and we have sacrificed to him since the days of Esarhaddon, king of Assyria, who brought us here.”
The remnant of Jacob shall be in the midst of many peoples, Like dew coming from the Lord, like showers on the grass, Which wait for no one, delay for no human being.