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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /><meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1" /><title>Ezra 3 ESV</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="/chapnew2.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="../spec.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="/print.css" type="text/css" media="Print" /></head><body><div id="fx"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx2"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="30" scrolling="no" src="../cmenus/ezra/3.htm" align="left" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div><div id="blnk"></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable"><tr><td><div id="fx5"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx6"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="245" scrolling="no" src="../topmenuchap/ezra/3-1.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable3"><tr><td><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center" id="announce"><tr><td><div id="l1"><div id="breadcrumbs"><a href="http://biblehub.com">Bible</a> > <a href="../">ESV</a> > Ezra 3</div><div id="anc"><iframe src="/anc.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></div><div id="anc2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/anc2.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div></td></tr></table><div id="movebox2"><table border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div id="topheading"><a href="../ezra/2.htm" title="Ezra 2">◄</a> Ezra 3 <a href="../ezra/4.htm" title="Ezra 4">►</a></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center" class="maintable2"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div class="vheading"><table width="100%"><tr><td width="99%" valign="top">English Standard Version</td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/p/esv/nas/ezra/3.shtml" style="color:#001320" title="Parallel Chapters"> Par ▾ </a></tr></table></div></a><div class="chap"><p class="heading">Rebuilding the Altar</p><p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/ezra/3-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>When the seventh month came, and the children of Israel were in the towns, the people gathered as one man to Jerusalem. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/ezra/3-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>Then arose Jeshua the son of Jozadak, with his fellow priests, and Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel with his kinsmen, and they built the altar of the God of Israel, to offer burnt offerings on it, as it is written in the Law of Moses the man of God. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/ezra/3-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>They set the altar in its place, for fear was on them because of the peoples of the lands, and they offered burnt offerings on it to the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span>, burnt offerings morning and evening. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/ezra/3-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>And they kept the Feast of Booths, as it is written, and offered the daily burnt offerings by number according to the rule, as each day required, <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/ezra/3-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>and after that the regular burnt offerings, the offerings at the new moon and at all the appointed feasts of the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span>, and the offerings of everyone who made a freewill offering to the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span>. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/ezra/3-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>From the first day of the seventh month they began to offer burnt offerings to the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span>. But the foundation of the temple of the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> was not yet laid. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/ezra/3-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>So they gave money to the masons and the carpenters, and food, drink, and oil to the Sidonians and the Tyrians to bring cedar trees from Lebanon to the sea, to Joppa, according to the grant that they had from Cyrus king of Persia.</p> <p class="heading">Rebuilding the Temple</p><p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/ezra/3-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>Now in the second year after their coming to the house of God at Jerusalem, in the second month, Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel and Jeshua the son of Jozadak made a beginning, together with the rest of their kinsmen, the priests and the Levites and all who had come to Jerusalem from the captivity. They appointed the Levites, from twenty years old and upward, to supervise the work of the house of the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span>. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/ezra/3-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>And Jeshua with his sons and his brothers, and Kadmiel and his sons, the sons of Judah, together supervised the workmen in the house of God, along with the sons of Henadad and the Levites, their sons and brothers.</p> <p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/ezra/3-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>And when the builders laid the foundation of the temple of the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span>, the priests in their vestments came forward with trumpets, and the Levites, the sons of Asaph, with cymbals, to praise the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span>, according to the directions of David king of Israel. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/ezra/3-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>And they sang responsively, praising and giving thanks to the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span>,</p><span class="block-indent"><p class="line-group"><span class="ln-group">“For he is good,</span><br /><span class="indent">for his steadfast love endures forever toward Israel.”</span></p><p class="same-paragraph">And all the people shouted with a great shout when they praised the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span>, because the foundation of the house of the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> was laid. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/ezra/3-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>But many of the priests and Levites and heads of fathers’ houses, old men who had seen the first house, wept with a loud voice when they saw the foundation of this house being laid, though many shouted aloud for joy, <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/ezra/3-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>so that the people could not distinguish the sound of the joyful shout from the sound of the people’s weeping, for the people shouted with a great shout, and the sound was heard far away.</p></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">ESV Text Edition® (2016).<br /><br />The ESV® Bible (The Holy Bible, English Standard Version®) copyright © 2001 by <a href="http://www.crossway.org/home/esv/">Crossway Bibles</a>, a publishing ministry of Good News Publishers. 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