F.
The rebuilding of the altar of God
3:1-6
Ezra 3
:1
3:1
And when the seventh month came, and the children of Israel were in the cities, the people gathered together as
aone man to Jerusalem.
Ezra 3
:2
3:2
Then 1aJeshua the son of Jozadak rose up,
along with his brothers the priests and
bZerubbabel the son of Shealtiel and his brothers, and they built the altar of the God of Israel to offer
cburnt offerings upon it, as it is written in the law of Moses the
dman of God.
Ezra 3
:3
3:3
And they set up the altar upon its bases, for fear was upon them because of the peoples of the lands; and they offered burnt offerings on it to Jehovah, burnt offerings of the
amorning and evening.
Ezra 3
:4
3:4
And they held the
1aFeast of Tabernacles, as it is written, and
offered the
bdaily burnt offerings by number according to the ordinance as the duty of every day required;
Ezra 3
:5
3:5
And afterward
they offered the continual burnt offering and
the offerings of the
anew moons and of all the
bappointed feasts of Jehovah that were sanctified and of everyone who offered willingly a freewill offering to Jehovah.
G.
The rebuilding of the house of God
3:6-13
Ezra 3
:6
3:6
From the first day of the seventh month they began to offer up burnt offerings to Jehovah; however the
afoundation of the temple of Jehovah had not yet been laid.
Ezra 3
:7
3:7
They also gave money to the stone hewers and to the carpenters, and
afood and drink and oil to the Sidonians and to the Tyrians, to bring
bcedar trees from Lebanon to the sea at Joppa according to the authorization granted them by
cCyrus the king of Persia.
Ezra 3
:8
3:8
Now in the second year after they came to the house of God at Jerusalem, in the second month,
aZerubbabel the son of Shealtiel and Jeshua the son of Jozadak and the rest of their brothers, the priests and the Levites, and all those who came out of captivity to Jerusalem began by appointing the Levites, from
btwenty years old and upward, to have oversight over the work of the house of Jehovah.
Ezra 3
:9
3:9
Then Jeshua stood
with his sons and his brothers, as
aone man,
with Kadmiel and his sons, the sons of Judah,
and with the sons of Henadad
and their sons and their brothers the Levites, to have oversight over the workmen in the house of God.
Ezra 3
:10
3:10
And when the builders laid the foundation of the temple of Jehovah, they set the priests in their apparel with trumpets and the Levites, the
asons of Asaph, with cymbals, to praise Jehovah according to the directions of David the king of Israel.
Ezra 3
:11
3:11
And they sang to one another in praising and giving thanks to Jehovah,
saying, For He is good, for His lovingkindness is forever upon Israel. And all the people shouted with a great shout when they praised Jehovah, because the
afoundation of the house of Jehovah was laid.
Ezra 3
:12
3:12
But many of the priests and Levites and heads of fathers’
houses, the old men who had seen the first
ahouse, wept with a loud voice when the foundation of this house was laid before their eyes; and many shouted aloud for joy,
Ezra 3
:13
3:13
So that the people could not discern the sound of the shout of joy from the sound of the weeping of the people; for the people shouted with a loud shout, and the sound was heard far away.
