ocr: AT Needed boost - Haggai 1:1-2:5 "Is 1 it a time for you yourselves to be living in your paneled houses, while this house remains a ruin?" (Hag. 1:4) The burst of energy described in Ezra did not last long Opposition soon arose among the tribes bordering srael, who did not look kindly on the resuryence of a traditional enemy. The cemple project especially alarmed them, in view of all the stories they had heard about the miraculous power of srael's God. And surely, they reasoned, a rebuilt temple would only inflame the sraelites religious zeal. Even srael's protector, Persia, began to waver on ...