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   ocr: The settiers went to work at once, setting temple reconstruction as - their highest priority. They had hope: The Persians had even given back the pilfered silver and gold temple articles. When the Jews finally laid the foundation, the sound of their shouting could be heard from far away. The temple, after all, was the place where they would meet God and, as such, symbolized a new start with him. Yet the shouts of joy mingled with loud cries of weeping as well The older returnees, those who remembered Solomon's temple ina all its splendor, wept at the comparison. They had lost political ndepend ...