Ezra Chapter 3

Ezra Chapter 3
1 And when the seventh month was
come, and the children of Israel were in
their cities, the people assembled
themselves as one man unto Jerusalem. 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,
3 And they set the altar upon his bases
(for fear was among them, because of the
people of those countries) therefore they
offered burnt offerings thereon unto the
Lord, even burnt offerings in the
morning, and at even. 4 They kept also
the feast of the tabernacles, as it is
written, and the burnt offering daily, by
number according to the custom day by
day,
5 And afterward the continual burnt
offering, both in the new months and in
all the feast days that were consecrated
unto the Lord, and in all the oblations
willingly offered unto the Lord.
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 laid. 7 They
gave money also unto the masons, and to
the workmen, and meat and drink, and
oil unto them of Zidon and of Tyre, to
bring them cedar wood from Lebanon to
the sea unto Joppa, according to the
grant that they had of Cyrus king of
Persia.
8 And in the second year of their coming
unto the house of God in 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 year old and
above, to set forward the work of the
house of the Lord.
9 And Jeshua stood with his sons, and
his brethren, and Kadmiel with his sons,
and the sons of Judah together to set
forward the workmen in the house of
God, and the sons of Henadad with their
sons, and their brethren the Levites.
10 And when the builders laid the
foundation of the temple of the Lord,
they appointed 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.
11 Thus they sang when they gave
praise, and when they gave thanks unto
the Lord, For he is good, for his mercy
endureth forever 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.
12 Many also of the priests and the
Levites and the chief of the fathers,
ancient men which 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,
13 So that the people could not discern
the sound of the shout for joy, from the
noise of the weeping of the people: for
the people shouted with a loud cry, and
the noise was heard far off.