[76]. Ezra 3:8-13.
[77]. Ezra 4:1-6; see also verses 7-24, and chapter 5.
[78]. Ezra 6:11, 12; see also verses 7-10.
[79]. Ezra 6:21.
[80]. Josephus, Antiquities of the Jews: XIII, 13:5.
[81]. Compare Exodus 20:25; Deut. 27:5; Joshua 8:31.
[82]. See Haggai 2:1-4; compare Zech. 4:10.
[83]. See Josephus, Antiquities of the Jews, Book XII, 5:3-5.
[84]. See Josephus, Antiquities of the Jews, Book XII, chaps. 6 and 7; and II Maccabees 2:19; 10:1-8; see also John 10:22.
[85]. See Matt. 2:1-10, 16-18. "A little child made the great Herod quake upon his throne. When he knew that the magi were come to hail their King and Lord, and did not stop at his palace, but passed on to a humbler roof, and when he found that they would not return to betray this child to him, he put to death all the children in Bethlehem that were under two years old. The crime was great; but the number of the victims, in a little place like Bethlehem, was small enough to escape special record among the wicked acts of Herod from Josephus and other historians, as it had no political interest."—Smith's Comprehensive Dictionary of the Bible, art. "Jesus Christ," page 466.