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.
