, even burnt
offerings morning and evening.Ezra 3
3:1 And when the seventh month was come, and the children of Israel were in the cities, the people gathered themselves together as one man to Jerusalem.
3:2 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 Elohim of Israel, to offer burnt offerings thereon, as it is written in the law of Moses the man of Elohim.
3:3 And they set the altar upon his bases; for fear was upon them because of the people
of those countries: and they offered burnt offerings thereon unto , even burnt
offerings morning and evening.
3:4 They kept also the feast of tabernacles, as it is written, and offered the daily burnt offerings by number, according to the custom, as the duty of every day required;
3:5 And afterward offered the continual burnt offering, both of the new moons, and of
all the set feasts of that were consecrated, and of every one that willingly
offered a freewill offering unto .
3:6 From the first day of the seventh month began they to offer burnt offerings unto
. But the foundation of the temple of was not yet laid.
3:7 They gave money also unto the masons, and to the carpenters; and meat, and drink, and oil, unto them of Zidon, and to them of Tyre, to bring cedar trees from Lebanon to the sea of Joppa, according to the grant that they had of Cyrus king of Persia.
3:8 Now in the second year of their coming unto the house of Elohim at 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 years old and
upward, to set forward the work of the house of .
3:9 Then stood Jeshua with his sons and his brethren, Kadmiel and his sons, the sons of Judah, together, to set forward the workmen in the house of Elohim: the sons of Henadad, with their sons and their brethren the Levites.
3:10 And when the builders laid the foundation of the temple of , they set the
priests in their apparel with trumpets, and the Levites the sons of Asaph with cymbals, to
praise , after the ordinance of David king of Israel.
3:11 And they sang together by course in praising and giving thanks unto ;
because he is good, for his mercy endureth for ever toward Israel. And all the people
shouted with a great shout, when they praised , because the foundation of the house
of was laid.
3:12 But many of the priests and Levites and chief of the fathers, who were ancient men, that 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:
3:13 So that the people could not discern the noise of the shout of joy from the noise of the weeping of the people: for the people shouted with a loud shout, and the noise was heard afar off.