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They wrote a message and they sent it to all the people in Jerusalem and the other towns in Judah. It said that all the Jews who had returned from exile in Babylon must come to Jerusalem. If they did not arrive in three days, they would lose everything that belonged to them. They would no longer be part of the Israelite people. That is what the leaders and officers had decided should happen.

All the men from the tribes of Judah and Benjamin reached Jerusalem in three days.[a] It was the 20th day of the ninth month. All the people sat in the yard in front of God's temple. Their bodies were shaking because they were afraid. It was also raining.

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  1. 10:9 Judah and Benjamin were the two tribes that belonged to the kingdom of Judah. They were the two Israelite tribes who had been taken as prisoners to Babylon. Now God had brought them back to their homes in Judah.