1 And when the seventh month was come, and the children of YisraYAH [were] in
the cities, the people gathered themselves together as one man to 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
YAHUAH of YisraYAH, to offer burnt offerings thereon, as [it is] written in the
law of Moses the man of YAHUAH.
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 YAHUAH,
[even] burnt offerings morning and evening.
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;
5 And afterward [offered] the continual burnt offering, both of the new moons,
and of all the set feasts of YAHUAH that were consecrated, and of every one that
willingly offered a freewill offering unto YAHUAH.
6 From the first day of the seventh month began they to offer burnt offerings
unto YAHUAH. But the foundation of the temple of YAHUAH was not [yet] laid.
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.
8 ¶ Now in the second year of their coming unto the house of YAHUAH 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 YAHUAH.
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 YAHUAH: the
sons of Henadad, [with] their sons and their brethren the Levites.
10 And when the builders laid the foundation of the temple of YAHUAH, they set
the priests in their apparel with trumpets, and the Levites the sons of Asaph
with cymbals, to praise YAHUAH, after the ordinance of David king of YisraYAH.
11 And they sang together by course in praising and giving thanks unto YAHUAH;
because [he is] good, for his mercy [endureth] for ever toward YisraYAH. And all
the people shouted with a great shout, when they praised YAHUAH, because the
foundation of the house of YAHUAH was laid.
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:
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.