3:1 When
the
seventh
month
came,
and
the
children
of
Israel
were
in
the
towns,
the
people
gathered
as
one
man
to
Jerusalem.
3:2 Then
arose
Jeshua
the
son
of
Jozadak,
with
his
fellow
priests,
and
Zerubbabel
the
son
of
Shealtiel
with
his
kinsmen,
and
they
built
the
altar
of
the
God
of
Israel,
to
offer
burnt
offerings
on
it,
as
it
is
written
in
the
Law
of
Moses
the
man
of
God.
3:3 They
set
the
altar
in
its
place,
for
fear
was
on
them
because
of
the
peoples
of
the
lands,
and
they
offered
burnt
offerings
on
it
to
the
LORD,
burnt
offerings
morning
and
evening.
3:4 And
they
kept
the
Feast
of
Booths,
as
it
is
written,
and
offered
the
daily
burnt
offerings
by
number
according
to
the
rule,
as
each
day
required,
3:5 and
after
that
the
regular
burnt
offerings,
the
offerings
at
the
new
moon
and
at
all
the
appointed
feasts
of
the
LORD,
and
the
offerings
of
everyone
who
made
a
freewill
offering
to
the
LORD.
3:6 From
the
first
day
of
the
seventh
month
they
began
to
offer
burnt
offerings
to
the
LORD.
But
the
foundation
of
the
temple
of
the
LORD
was
not
yet
laid.
3:7 So
they
gave
money
to
the
masons
and
the
carpenters,
and
food,
drink,
and
oil
to
the
Sidonians
and
the
Tyrians
to
bring
cedar
trees
from
Lebanon
to
the
sea,
to
Joppa,
according
to
the
grant
that
they
had
from
Cyrus
king
of
Persia.
3:8 Now
in
the
second
year
after
their
coming
to
the
house
of
God
at
Jerusalem,
in
the
second
month,
Zerubbabel
the
son
of
Shealtiel
and
Jeshua
the
son
of
Jozadak
made
a
beginning,
together
with
the
rest
of
their
kinsmen,
the
priests
and
the
Levites
and
all
who
had
come
to
Jerusalem
from
the
captivity.
They
appointed
the
Levites,
from
twenty
years
old
and
upward,
to
supervise
the
work
of
the
house
of
the
LORD.
3:9 And
Jeshua
with
his
sons
and
his
brothers,
and
Kadmiel
and
his
sons,
the
sons
of
Judah,
together
supervised
the
workmen
in
the
house
of
God,
along
with
the
sons
of
Henadad
and
the
Levites,
their
sons
and
brothers.
3:10 And
when
the
builders
laid
the
foundation
of
the
temple
of
the
LORD,
the
priests
in
their
vestments
came
forward
with
trumpets,
and
the
Levites,
the
sons
of
Asaph,
with
cymbals,
to
praise
the
LORD,
according
to
the
directions
of
David
king
of
Israel.
3:11 And
they
sang
responsively,
praising
and
giving
thanks
to
the
LORD,
"For
he
is
good,
for
his
steadfast
love
endures
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.
3:12 But
many
of
the
priests
and
Levites
and
heads
of
fathers'
houses,
old
men
who
had
seen
the
first
house,
wept
with
a
loud
voice
when
they
saw
the
foundation
of
this
house
being
laid,
though
many
shouted
aloud
for
joy,
3:13 so
that
the
people
could
not
distinguish
the
sound
of
the
joyful
shout
from
the
sound
of
the
people's
weeping,
for
the
people
shouted
with
a
great
shout,
and
the
sound
was
heard
far
away.