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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 NIV</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" 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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">New International Version</td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/p/niv/esv/ezra/3.shtml" style="color:#001320" title="Parallel Chapters"> Par ▾ </a></tr></table></div><div class="chap"><p class="sectionhead">Rebuilding the Altar</p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/ezra/3-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>When the seventh month came and the Israelites had settled in their towns, the people assembled together as one in Jerusalem. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/ezra/3-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>Then Joshua son of Jozadak and his fellow priests and Zerubbabel son of Shealtiel and his associates began to build the altar of the God of Israel to sacrifice burnt offerings on it, in accordance with what 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>Despite their fear of the peoples around them, they built the altar on its foundation and sacrificed burnt offerings on it to the <span class="name">Lord</span>, both the morning and evening sacrifices. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/ezra/3-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>Then in accordance with what is written, they celebrated the Festival of Tabernacles with the required number of burnt offerings prescribed for each day. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/ezra/3-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>After that, they presented the regular burnt offerings, the New Moon sacrifices and the sacrifices for all the appointed sacred festivals of the <span class="name">Lord</span>, as well as those brought as freewill offerings to the <span class="name">Lord</span>. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/ezra/3-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>On the first day of the seventh month they began to offer burnt offerings to the <span class="name">Lord</span>, though the foundation of the <span class="name">Lord</span>’s temple had not yet been laid.</p> <p class="sectionhead">Rebuilding the Temple</p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/ezra/3-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>Then they gave money to the masons and carpenters, and gave food and drink and olive oil to the people of Sidon and Tyre, so that they would bring cedar logs by sea from Lebanon to Joppa, as authorized by Cyrus king of Persia.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/ezra/3-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>In the second month of the second year after their arrival at the house of God in Jerusalem, Zerubbabel son of Shealtiel, Joshua son of Jozadak and the rest of the people (the priests and the Levites and all who had returned from the captivity to Jerusalem) began the work. They appointed Levites twenty years old and older to supervise the building of the house of the <span class="name">Lord</span>. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/ezra/3-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>Joshua and his sons and brothers and Kadmiel and his sons (descendants of Hodaviah <span class="nivfootnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="Hebrew Yehudah, a variant of Hodaviah">a</a></sup></span> ) and the sons of Henadad and their sons and brothers—all Levites—joined together in supervising those working on the house of God.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/ezra/3-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>When the builders laid the foundation of the temple of the <span class="name">Lord</span>, the priests in their vestments and with trumpets, and the Levites (the sons of Asaph) with cymbals, took their places to praise the <span class="name">Lord</span>, as prescribed by David king of Israel. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/ezra/3-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>With praise and thanksgiving they sang to the <span class="name">Lord</span>:</p><div class="stanza"><p class="line1">“He is good;</p><p class="line2">his love toward Israel endures forever.”</p></div><p class="pcontinued">And all the people gave a great shout of praise to the <span class="name">Lord</span>, because the foundation of the house of the <span class="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 older priests and Levites and family heads, who had seen the former temple, wept aloud when they saw the foundation of this temple being laid, while many others shouted for joy. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/ezra/3-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>No one could distinguish the sound of the shouts of joy from the sound of weeping, because the people made so much noise. And the sound was heard far away.</p><hr size="1" color="DDEEFF"><span class="mainfootnotes"><A name="footnotes"></a><span class="mainfootnoteshdg">Footnotes:</span><br><span class="nivfootnotesbot">a</span> <span class="fnverse">9</span> <span class="footnotebot">Hebrew <i>Yehudah,</i> a variant of <i>Hodaviah</i></span><br><hr size="1" color="DDEEFF"></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center"><p class="ntext"><a href="http://niv.scripturetext.com/version.htm">New International Version</a> (NIV)</p><p class="ntext2">Holy Bible, New International Version&reg, NIV® Copyright © 1973, 1978, 1984, 2011 by <a href="http://biblica.com">Biblica, Inc.</a>® Used by permission. 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