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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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; |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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: |
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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. |