1 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 brothers the
priests, and Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, and his brothers, and built 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 They set the altar on its
base; for fear was on them because of the peoples of the countries: and they
offered burnt offerings thereon to Yahweh, even burnt offerings morning and
evening. 4 They kept the feast of tents, as it is written, and
offered the daily burnt offerings by number, according to the
ordinance, as the duty of every day required; 5 and afterward the
continual burnt-offering, and the offerings of the new moons, and of
all the set feasts of Yahweh that were consecrated, and of everyone who
willingly offered a freewill-offering to Yahweh. 6 From the first day of
the seventh month began they to offer burnt offerings to Yahweh: but the
foundation of the temple of Yahweh was not yet laid. 7 They gave money
also to the masons, and to the carpenters; and food, and drink, and oil, to
them of Sidon, and to them of Tyre, to bring cedar trees from Lebanon to the
sea, to Joppa, according to the grant that they had of Cyrus king of Persia.
8 Now in the second year of their coming to the house of God at Jerusalem,
in the second month, began Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, and Jeshua the
son of Jozadak, and the rest of their brothers the priests and the Levites,
and all those who were come out of the captivity to Jerusalem, and appointed
the Levites, from twenty years old and upward, to have the oversight of the
work of the house of Yahweh. 9 Then stood Jeshua with his sons and his
brothers, Kadmiel and his sons, the sons of Judah, together, to have the
oversight of the workmen in the house of God: the sons of Henadad, with their
sons and their brothers the Levites. 10 When the builders laid the
foundation of the temple of Yahweh, they set the priests in their clothing
with trumpets, and the Levites the sons of Asaph with cymbals, to praise
Yahweh, after the order of David king of Israel. 11 They sang one to
another in praising and giving thanks to Yahweh, saying, For he is
good, for his loving kindness endures forever toward Israel. All the people
shouted with a great shout, when they praised Yahweh, because the foundation
of the house of Yahweh was laid. 12 But many of the priests and Levites
and heads of fathers’ houses, the old men who 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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