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as one man in Jerusalem. <A name="3"></a><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/ezra/3-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>Then Jeshua son of Jozadak<span class="fn"><a href="#fn">a</a></span> and his fellow priests, along with Zerubbabel son of Shealtiel and his associates, began to build the altar of the God of Israel to sacrifice burnt offerings on it, as it is written in the Law of Moses the man of God. <A name="4"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/ezra/3-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>They set up the altar on its foundation and sacrificed burnt offerings on it to the LORD—both the morning and evening burnt offerings—even though they feared the people of the land. <A name="5"></a><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/ezra/3-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>They also celebrated the Feast of Tabernacles<span class="fn"><a href="#fn">b</a></span> in accordance with what is written, and they offered burnt offerings daily based on the number prescribed for each day. <A name="6"></a><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/ezra/3-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>After that, they presented the regular burnt offerings and those for New Moons and for all the appointed sacred feasts of the LORD, as well as all the freewill offerings brought to the LORD. <A name="7"></a><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/ezra/3-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>On the first day of the seventh month, the Israelites began to offer burnt offerings to the LORD, although the foundation of the temple of the LORD had not been laid. <A name="8"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/ezra/3-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>They gave money to the masons and carpenters, and food and drink and oil to the people of Sidon and Tyre to bring cedar logs from Lebanon to Joppa by sea, as authorized by Cyrus king of Persia. <A name="9"></a><p class="hdg">Temple Restoration Begins<p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/ezra/3-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>In the second month of the second year after they had arrived at the house of God in Jerusalem, Zerubbabel son of Shealtiel, Jeshua son of Jozadak, and the rest of their associates including the priests, the Levites, and all who had returned to Jerusalem from the captivity, began the work. They appointed Levites twenty years of age or older to supervise the construction of the house of the LORD. <A name="10"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/ezra/3-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>So Jeshua and his sons and brothers, Kadmiel and his sons (descendants of Yehudah),<span class="fn"><a href="#fn">c</a></span> and the sons of Henadad and their sons and brothers—all Levites—joined together to supervise those working on the house of God. <A name="11"></a><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/ezra/3-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>When the builders had laid the foundation of the temple of the LORD, the priests in their apparel with trumpets, and the Levites (the sons of Asaph) with cymbals, took their positions to praise the LORD, as David king of Israel had prescribed. <A name="12"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/ezra/3-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>And they sang responsively with praise and thanksgiving to the LORD: <p class="indent1stline">“For He is good; <p class="indent2"> for His loving devotion<span class="fn"><a href="#fn">d</a></span> to Israel endures forever.” <p class="reg"> Then all the people gave a great shout of praise to the LORD, because the foundation of the house of the LORD had been laid. <A name="13"></a><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/ezra/3-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>But many of the older priests, Levites, and family heads who had seen the first temple wept loudly when they saw the foundation of this temple. Still, many others shouted joyfully. <span class="reftext"><a href="/ezra/3-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>The people could not distinguish the shouts of joy from the sound of weeping, because the people were making so much noise. And the sound was heard from afar.</p><A name="fn"></a><div id="fnlink"><br /><br /><b>Footnotes:</b><br><br><span class="fnverse">2</span> <span class="footnotesbot">a</span> <i>Jozadak</i><span class="thin"> </span> is a variant of <i>Jehozadak</i><span class="thin"> </span>; also in verse 8; see <a href="../1_chronicles/6.htm#14">1 Chronicles 6:14</a>.<br><span class="fnverse">4</span> <span class="footnotesbot">b</span> That is, Sukkot, the autumn feast of pilgrimage to Jerusalem; also translated as <i>the Feast of Booths</i><span class="thin"> </span> or <i>the Feast of Shelters</i><span class="thin"> </span> and originally called <i>the Feast of Ingathering</i><span class="thin"> </span> (see <a href="../exodus/23.htm#16">Exodus 23:16</a> and <a href="../exodus/34.htm#22">Exodus 34:22</a>).<br><span class="fnverse">9</span> <span class="footnotesbot">c</span> Hebrew <i>sons of Judah</i><span class="thin"> </span>; that is, most likely, <i>sons of Yehudah</i><span class="thin"> </span>, another name for <i>Hodevah</i><span class="thin"> </span> or <i>Hodaviah</i><span class="thin"> </span>; see <a href="../ezra/2.htm#40">Ezra 2:40</a> and <a href="../nehemiah/7.htm#43">Nehemiah 7:43</a>.<br><span class="fnverse">11</span> <span class="footnotesbot">d</span> Forms of the Hebrew <i>chesed</i><span class="thin"> </span> are translated here and in most cases throughout the Scriptures as <i>loving devotion</i><span class="thin"> </span>; the range of meaning includes <i>love</i><span class="thin"> </span>, <i>goodness</i><span class="thin"> </span>, <i>kindness</i><span class="thin"> </span>, <i>faithfulness</i><span class="thin"> </span>, and <i>mercy</i><span class="thin"> </span>, as well as <i>loyalty to a covenant</i><span class="thin"> </span>.<br><br /></div><br /></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">The Berean Bible (<a href=http://berean.bible>www.Berean.Bible</a>) <a href=http://bereanbible.com>Berean Study Bible (BSB)</a> © 2016, 2020 by <a href=http://biblehub.com>Bible Hub</a> and <a href=http://berean.bible>Berean.Bible</a>. 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