Honest House
“ Now when the adversaries of Judah and Benjamin heard that the descendants of the captivity were building the temple of the Lord God of Israel, they came to Zerubbabel and the heads of the fathers’ houses, and said to them, “Let us build with you, for we seek your God as you do; and we have sacrificed to Him since the days of Esarhaddon king of Assyria, who brought us here.” But Zerubbabel and Jeshua and the rest of the heads of the fathers’ houses of Israel said to them, “You may do nothing with us to build a house for our God; but we alone will build to the Lord God of Israel, as King Cyrus the king of Persia has commanded us.” ” Ezra 4 : 1 - 3 NKJV Everyone knows that any house building project requires lots of help and human labourers, and a reasonable building contractor will readily accept and use all offers of labour dispassionately. Zerubbabel stood out as an exception to the concept of ‘use all labour-offer ’ building contractors. He refused the offers from ‘the adver...