1 When the seventh month got here, and the Israelites had been within the cities, the folks gathered collectively in Jerusalem. 2 Then Jeshua son of Jozadak, together with his fellow clergymen, and Zerubbabel son of Shealtiel together with his kin got down to construct the altar of the God of Israel, to supply burnt-offerings on it, as prescribed within the regulation of Moses the person of God. 3 They arrange the altar on its basis, as a result of they had been in dread of the neighboring peoples, and so they provided burnt-offerings upon it to the Lord, morning and night. 4 And so they stored the pageant of cubicles, as prescribed, and provided the day by day burnt-offerings by quantity in keeping with the ordinance, as required for every day, 5 and after that the common burnt-offerings, the choices on the new moon and in any respect the sacred festivals of the Lord, and the choices of everybody who made a freewill-offering to the Lord. 6 From the primary day of the seventh month they started to supply burnt-offerings to the Lord. However the basis of the temple of the Lord was not but laid. 7 In order that they gave cash to the masons and the carpenters, and meals, drink, and oil to the Sidonians and the Tyrians to convey cedar timber from Lebanon to the ocean, to Joppa, in keeping with the grant that they’d from King Cyrus of Persia.
8 Within the second yr after their arrival on the home of God at Jerusalem, within the second month, Zerubbabel son of Shealtiel and Jeshua son of Jozadak made a starting, along with the remainder of their folks, the clergymen and the Levites and all who had come to Jerusalem from the captivity. They appointed the Levites, from twenty years outdated and upwards, to have the oversight of the work on the home of the Lord. 9 And Jeshua together with his sons and his kin, and Kadmiel and his sons, Binnui and Hodaviah together with the sons of Henadad, the Levites, their sons and kin, collectively took cost of the employees in the home of God.
10 When the builders laid the muse of the temple of the Lord, the clergymen of their vestments had been stationed to reward the Lord with trumpets, and the Levites, the sons of Asaph, with cymbals, in keeping with the instructions of King David of Israel; 11 and so they sang responsively, praising and giving because of the Lord,
“For he’s good,
for his steadfast love endures for ever in direction of Israel.”
And all of the folks responded with an awesome shout after they praised the Lord, as a result of the muse of the home of the Lord was laid. 12 However lots of the clergymen and Levites and heads of households, outdated individuals who had seen the primary home on its foundations, wept with a loud voice after they noticed this home, although many shouted aloud for pleasure, 13 in order that the folks couldn’t distinguish the sound of the joyful shout from the sound of the folks’s weeping, for the folks shouted so loudly that the sound was heard far-off.
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