Ezra 3
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1
And when the seventh month was come, and the children of Israel were in
the cities, the people gathered themselves together as one man to Jerusalem.
2Then stood up Jeshua the son of Jozadak, and his brethren the
priests, and Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, and his brethren, and builded the altar of
the God of Israel, to offer burnt offerings thereon, as it is written in the law of
Moses the man of God.
3And they set the altar upon his bases; for fear was upon
them because of the people of those countries: and they offered burnt offerings thereon
unto the LORD, even burnt offerings morning and evening.
4They kept also the feast of tabernacles, as it is written,
and offered the daily burnt offerings by number, according to the custom, as the
duty of every day required;
5And afterward offered the continual burnt offering,
both of the new moons, and of all the set feasts of the LORD that were consecrated, and of
every one that willingly offered a freewill offering unto the LORD.
6From the first day of the seventh month began they to offer
burnt offerings unto the LORD. But the foundation of the temple of the LORD was not yet
laid.
7They gave money also unto the masons, and to the carpenters;
and meat, and drink, and oil, unto them of Zidon, and to them of Tyre, to bring cedar
trees from Lebanon to the sea of Joppa, according to the grant that they had of Cyrus king
of Persia.
8Now in the second year of their coming unto the house of God
at Jerusalem, in the second month, began Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, and Jeshua the
son of Jozadak, and the remnant of their brethren the priests and the Levites, and all
they that were come out of the captivity unto Jerusalem; and appointed the Levites, from
twenty years old and upward, to set forward the work of the house of the LORD.
9Then stood Jeshua with his sons and his brethren,
Kadmiel and his sons, the sons of Judah, together, to set forward the workmen in the house
of God: the sons of Henadad, with their sons and their brethren the Levites.
10And when the builders laid the foundation of the temple of
the LORD, they set the priests in their apparel with trumpets, and the Levites the sons of
Asaph with cymbals, to praise the LORD, after the ordinance of David king of Israel.
11And they sang together by course in praising and giving
thanks unto the LORD; because he is good, for his mercy endureth for ever
toward Israel. And all the people shouted with a great shout, when they praised the LORD,
because the foundation of the house of the LORD was laid.
12But many of the priests and Levites and chief of the
fathers, who were ancient men, that had seen the first house, when the foundation
of this house was laid before their eyes, wept with a loud voice; and many shouted aloud
for joy:
13So that the people could not discern the noise of the shout
of joy from the noise of the weeping of the people: for the people shouted with a loud
shout, and the noise was heard afar off.
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