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Ezra 3

2 They build the altar of God 6 They offer to the Lord. 7 They prepare for the Temple, 11 And sing unto the Lord.
1.And *when the aseventh month was come, and the children of Israél were in their cities, the people assembled them selves as one man unto Jerusalém.
2.Then stood up Jeshúa the son of Jozahák, and his brethren the Priests, and Zerubbabél the bson of Shealtiél, and his brethren, and builded the altar of the God of Israél, to offer burnt offerings thereon, as it is written in the Law of Mosés the man of God,
3.And they set the altar upon chis bases (for fear was among them, because of the people of those countries) therefore they offered burnt offerings thereon unto the Lord, even burnt offerings in the morning and at even.
4.They kept also the feast of the Tabernacles, as it is written, and the burnt offering *daily, by number according to the custom day by day,
5.And afterward dthe continual burnt offering, both in the new months and in all the feast days that were consecrate unto the Lord, and in all the oblations willingly offered unto the Lord.
6.From the first day of the seventh month began they to offer burnt offerings unto the Lord: but the foundation of the Temple of the Lord was not laid.
7.They gave money also unto the masons, and to the workmen, and meat and drink, and oil unto them of Zidón and of Tyrus, to bring them cedarwood from Lebanón to the sea unto ^Japhó, according to the grant that they had of Cyrus King of Persia.
8.¶ And in the second year of their comming unto the house of God in Jerusalém in the esecond month began Zerubbabél the son of Shealtiél, and Jeshúa the son of Jozadák, and the remnant of their brethren the Priests and the Levites, and all they that were come out of the captivity unto Jerusalém, and appointed the Levities from twenty year old and above, to set forward the work of the house of the Lord.
9.And Jeshúa fstood with his sons, and his brethren, and Kadmiél with his sons, and the sons of Judáh together to set forward the workmen in the house of God, and the sons of Henadád with their sons, and their brethren the Levites.
10.And when the builders laid the foundation of the Temple of the Lord, they appointed the Priests in their apparel with trumpets, and the Levites the sons of Asáph with cymbals, to praise the Lord, *after the ordinance of David King of Israél.
11.Thus they sang when they gave praise, and when they gave thanks unto the Lord, For he is good, for his mercy endureth for ever toward Israél. 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.
12.Many also of the Priests and the Levites and the chief of the fathers, ancient men, which had seen the first house, (when the foundation of this house was laid before their eyes) gwept with a loud voice: and many shouted a loud for joy,
13.So that the people could not discern the sound of the shout for joy, from the noise of the weeping of the people: for the people shouted with a loud cry, and the noise was heard far off.

Notes

1-*.
1 Esdr. 5.47.
1-a.
Called Tishri, which answers to part of September and part of October.
2-b.
Meaning, nephew: for he was the son of Pedaiah, read 1 Chron. 3.19.
3-c.
In the place where Solomon had placed it.
4-*.
Ex. 23.16.
5-d.
That is, after the feast of Tabernacles.
7-^.
Or, Joppe.
8-e.
Which month contained part of April and part of May, for in the mean season they had provided for things necessary for the work.
9-f.
They gave them exhortations and encouraged every man forward in the work.
10-*.
1 Chron. 16.8.
12-g.
Because they saw that it was nothing so glorious as that Temple, which Solomon had built, notwithstanding Aggeus (Hag. 2.10) comforted them and prophecied that it shall be more beautiful then the first: meaning the spiritual Temple, which are the members of Christ’s body.