1 By the seventh month, the Israelites had settled in their towns, and the people assembled as one man in Jerusalem.
2 Then Jeshuason of Jozadak3:2 Jozadak is a variant of Jehozadak; also in verse 8; see 1 Chronicles 6:14.and his fellow priests, along with Zerubbabelson of Shealtieland 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 Mosesthe man of God. 3 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.
4 They also celebrated the Feast of Tabernacles3:4 That is, Sukkot, the autumn feast of pilgrimage to Jerusalem; also translated as the Feast of Booths or the Feast of Shelters and originally called the Feast of Ingathering(see Exodus 23:16 and Exodus 34:22).in accordance with what is written, and they offered burnt offerings daily based on the number prescribed for each day.
5 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.
6 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. 7 They gave money to the masons and carpenters, and food and drink and oil to the people of Sidonand Tyreto bring cedar logs from Lebanonto Joppaby sea, as authorized by Cyrusking of Persia.
Temple Restoration Begins
8 In the second month of the second year after they had arrived at the house of God in Jerusalem, Zerubbabelson of Shealtiel, Jeshuason of Jozadak, and the rest of their associates including the priests, the Levites, and all who had returned to Jerusalemfrom the captivity, began the work. They appointed Levites twenty years of age or older to supervise the construction of the house of the LORD. 9 So Jeshuaand his sons and brothers, Kadmieland his sons (descendants of Yehudah),3:9 Hebrew sons of Judah; that is, most likely, sons of Yehudah, another name for Hodevah or Hodaviah; see Ezra 2:40 and Nehemiah 7:43.and the sons of Henadad and their sons and brothers — all Levites — joined together to supervise those working on the house of God.
10 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 Davidking of Israel had prescribed. 11 And they sang responsively with praise and thanksgiving to the LORD:
"For He is good;
for His loving devotion3:11 Forms of the Hebrew chesed are translated here and in most cases throughout the Scriptures as loving devotion; the range of meaning includes love, goodness, kindness, faithfulness, and mercy, as well as loyalty to a covenant.to Israel endures forever."
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.
12 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. 13 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.
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יְרוּשָׁלִַ֫םyerushalaimἹερουσαλήμHierousalēm
Jerusalem is the city of the house of God, where children of Judah and Benjamin lived; the Babylonian army broke down the walls of the city (2 Kings 25:10).
Zerubbabel, son of Shealtiel, returned from captivity to Jerusalem with Jeshua and began to rebuild the temple of God; in the time of Haggai the prophet, he was governor of Judah (Haggai 2:2).
Moses, a Levite raised by Pharaoh’s daughter, was called by God at the burning bush, brought Israel out of slavery in Egypt, and received the law on Mount Sinai (Exodus 3:4).
Sidon is the city from which the borders of Canaan reached; Jesus said Tyre and Sidon would have repented if the miracles performed in Chorazin and Bethsaida had occurred in them (Matthew 11:21).
Tyre is a fortified city, surrounded by the sea, whose king Hiram supplied cedar and gold to Solomon. Fire on its walls was proclaimed, and Jesus went to the region of Tyre and Sidon (1 Kings 9:11).
Lebanon is a land of mountains and cedars, where timber was cut with the help of the Sidonians and where Solomon built whatever he desired, as he did in Jerusalem and throughout the rest of his realm (1 Kings 9:19).
Joppa is the city where Peter stayed for some time with Simon the tanner, and where Jonah found a ship bound for Tarshish when fleeing from the presence of the Lord (Acts 9:43).
Cyrus, king of Persia, decreed the return of the exiled Jews and the rebuilding of the temple in Jerusalem, and returned the vessels taken by Nebuchadnezzar (Ezra 1:2).
Persia is the kingdom of Cyrus, the king who said that the Lord, the God of heaven, had given him all the kingdoms of the earth and the task of building a temple in Jerusalem (Ezra 1:2).
Jerusalem is the city of the house of God, where children of Judah and Benjamin lived; the Babylonian army broke down the walls of the city (2 Kings 25:10).
Zerubbabel, son of Shealtiel, returned from captivity to Jerusalem with Jeshua and began to rebuild the temple of God; in the time of Haggai the prophet, he was governor of Judah (Haggai 2:2).
Jerusalem is the city of the house of God, where children of Judah and Benjamin lived; the Babylonian army broke down the walls of the city (2 Kings 25:10).
Asaph was the father of Zichri and great-grandfather of Mattaniah, who led the thanksgiving and prayers; Asaph’s descendants were in charge of the music of the house of God (Nehemiah 11:22).
David, son of Jesse, was a shepherd in Bethlehem when Samuel anointed him; he defeated Goliath, reigned over Israel in Jerusalem, and wrote many of the psalms (1 Samuel 16:13).