Ezra 2:70

Dwelt in their cities] i.e. occupied several of the provincial cities. Some scholars have held that only a few (if any) Jews returned to Jerusalem in the reign of Cyrus (whose decree in Ezra 6:3 only directs the construction of the Temple, not the restoration of. any exiles), and that the Temple was not begun as related in Ezra 3, but built for the first time in the reign of Darius by the remnant of the people left in Judæa (Haggai 1:12; Haggai 1:14; Zechariah 8:6; Zechariah 8:11). There seems, however, no adequate reason to question the substantial truth of Ezra 1-3.