Bible, King James Version
Ezra
Ezra.3
[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.
[2] Then 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.
[3] And 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.
[4] They 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;
[5] And 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.
[6] From 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.
[7] They 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.
[8] Now 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.
[9] Then 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.
[10] And 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.
[11] And 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.
[12] But 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:
[13] So 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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