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 # General Information:
 
-The non-Jewish people offer to help build the temple.
+The people of the surrounding nations offered to help build the temple. It is unknown why the Jews refused their help. These other people became their enemies and tried to hinder the work. They even persuaded the king of Persia to stop the Jews from building.
 
 # who had been exiled
 
-This can be translated in active form. Alternate translation: "whom the Babylonians had taken into exile" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/jit/figs-activepassive]])
+"whom the Babylonians had taken into exile"