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Ezra 3

2 Thei buyld the altar of God. 6 Thei offer to the Lord. 7 Thei prepare for the Tẽple, 11 And ſing vnto the Lord.
1.ANd when the ſeuenth moneth was come, and the children of Iſraél were in their cities, the people aſſembled them ſelues as one man vnto Ieruſalém.
2.Then ſtode vp Ieſhúa the ſonne of Iozadák, and his brethren the Prieſts, and Zerubbabél the ſonne of Shealtiél, and his brethren, & buylded the altar of the God of Iſraél, to offer burnt offrings thereon, as it is writen in the Law of Moſés the man of God,
3.And they ſet the altar vpõ his baſes (for feare was among them, becauſe of the people of thoſe countreies) therefore they offred burnt offrings thereõ vnto the Lord, euen burnt offrings in the morning and at euen.
4.They kept alſo the feaſt of the Tabernacles, as it is writen, and the burnt offring daily, by nomber according to the cuſtome day by day,
5.And afterward the continual burnt offring, bothe in the new moneths and in all the feaſt dayes that were conſecrate vnto the Lord, and in all the oblations willingly offred vnto the Lord.
6.From the firſt day of the ſeuenth moneth began they to offer burnt offrings vnto the Lord: but the fundacion of the Temple of the Lord was not laied.
7.They gaue money alſo vnto the maſons, and to the workemen, and meat and drinke, and oyle vnto them of Zidón and of Tyrus, to bring the cedre wood from Lebanón to the ſea vnto Iaphó, according to the grant that they had of Cyrus King of Perſia.
8.¶And in the ſeconde yere of their comming vnto the houſe of God in Ieruſalém in the ſecond moneth began Zerubbabél the ſonne of Shealtiél, and Ieſhúa the ſonne of Iozadák, and the remnant of their brethren the Prieſts and the Leuites, & all they that were come out of the captiuitie vnto Ieruſalém, and appointed the Leuites from twenty yere olde & aboue, to ſet forward the worke of the houſe of the Lord.
9.And Ieſhúa ſtode with his ſonnes, and his brethren, & Kadmiél with his ſonnes, & the ſonnes of Iudáh together to ſet forward the workemen in the houſe of God, and the ſonnes of Henadád with their ſonnes, and their brethren the Leuites.
10.And when the buylders laied the fundacion of the Temple of the Lord, thei appointed the Prieſts in their apparel with trumpets, and the Leuites the ſonnes of Aſáph with cymbales, to praiſe the Lord, after the ordinance of Dauid King of Iſraél.
11.Thus they ſang when they gaue praiſe, and when they gaue thankes vnto the Lord, For he is good, for his mercie endureth for euer toward Iſraél. And all ỹ people ſhouted with a great ſhoute, whẽ thei praiſed the Lord, becauſe the fundacion of the houſe of the Lord was layed.
12.Many alſo of the Prieſts and the Leuites and the chief of the fathers, ancient men, which had ſene the firſt houſe, (when the fundacion of this houſe was layed before their eies) wept with a loude voyce: and many ſhouted a loude for ioye,
13.So that the people colde not diſcerne the founde of the ſhoute for ioye, from the noyce of the weping of the people: for the people ſhouted with a loude crye, and the noyce was heard farre of.

Notes

1:*.
3. Eſdr.5.47.
1:a.
Called Tiſhrí, w̃ anſwereth to part of September & parte of October.
2:b.
Meanīg, nephewe: for he was the ſonne of Pedaiah read 1 Chro. 3.19.
3:c.
In the place where Salomõn had placed it.
4:*.
Exo.23.16.
5:d.
That is, after the feaſt of Tabernacles.
8:e.
Which moneth cõteined parte of April and parte of May, for in the meane ſeaſon they had prouided for thĩgs neceſſarie for the worke.
9:f.
They gaue them exhortations & encouraged euerie man forward in the worke.
10:*.
1 Chro.16. 8.
12:g.
Becauſe thei ſawe that it was nothĩg ſo glorious as that Temple, which Salomõn had buylt, notwithſtanding Aggeus cõforteth them & prophecieth that it ſhalbe more beautiful thẽ the firſt: meaning the ſpiritual Temple, w̃ are the members of Chriſtes bodie.