| Chapter 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. |
| 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. |
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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. |
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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. |
