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Chapter
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.