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Ezra 2:1 (ESV)

1 Now these were the people of the province who came up out of the captivity of those exiles whom Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon had carried captive to Babylonia. They returned to Jerusalem and Judah, each to his own town.

God caused settled exiles to place his church gathering work above all else.

  1. Who went back?

  2. Why did they go back?

  3. What do we learn?

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