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chapter 3
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And
now the seventh month was come, and the children of Israel were in their
cities: and the people gathered themselves together as one man to Jerusalem.
2 And Josue the son of Josedec rose up, and his
brethren the priests, and Zorobabel the son of Salathiel, and his brethren, and
they built the altar of the God of Israel that they might offer holocausts upon
it, as it is written in the law of Moses the mall of God.
3 And they set the altar of God upon its bases, while
the people of the lands round about put them in fear, and they offered upon it
a holocaust to the Lord morning and evening.
4 And they kept the feast of tabernacles, as it is
written, and offered the holocaust every day orderly according to the
commandment, the duty of the day in its day.
5 And afterwards the continual holocaust, both on the
new moons, and on all the solemnities of the Lord, that were consecrated, and
on all in which a freewill offering was made to the Lord.
6 From the Brat day of the seventh month they began to
offer holocausts to the Lord: but the temple of God was not yet founded.
7 And they gave money to hewers of stones and to
masons: and meat and drink, and oil to the Sidonians and Tyrians, to bring
cedar trees from Libanus to the sea of Joppe, according to the orders which
Cyrus king of the Persians had given them.
8 And in the second year of their coming to the temple
of God in Jerusalem, the second month, Zorobabel the son of Salathiel, and
Josue the son of Josedec, and the rest of their brethren the priests, and the
Levites, and all that were come from the captivity to Jerusalem began, and they
appointed Levites from twenty years old and upward, to hasten forward the work
of the Lord.
9 Then Josue and his sons and his brethren, Cedmihel,
and his sons, and the children of Juda, as one man, stood to hasten them that
did the work in the temple of God: the sons of Henadad, and their sons, and
their brethren the Levites.
10 And when the masons laid the foundations of the
temple of the Lord, the priests stood in their ornaments with trumpets: and the
Levites the sons of Asaph with cymbals, to praise God by the hands of David
king of Israel.
11 And they sung together hymns, and praise to the
Lord: because he is good, for his mercy endureth for ever towards Israel. And
all the people shouted with a great shout, praising the Lord, because the
foundations of the temple of the Lord were laid.
12 But many of the priests and the Levites, and the
chief of the fathers and the ancients that had seen the former temple; when
they had the foundation of this temple before their eyes, wept with a loud
voice: and many shouting for joy, lifted up their voice.
13 So that one could not distinguish the voice of the
shout of joy, from the noise of the weeping of the people: for one with another
the people shouted with a loud shout, and the voice was heard afar off.
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