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 God of Israel, to offer burnt-offerings thereon, 26as it is written in the law of Moses the man of God.
26Dt 12:5, 6.
3: 3 And they set the altar 27upon its base; for fear was upon them because of the peoples of the countries: and they offered burnt-offerings thereon unto Jehovah, even burnt-offerings towards morning and evening.
27Or, in its place;
3: 4 And they kept the feast of booths, 28as it is written, and offered the daily burnt-offerings by number, 29according to the ordinance, as the duty of every day required;
28Ex 23:16.
29Nu 29:12-38.
3: 5 and afterward the continual burnt-offering, and the offerings of the new moons, and of all the set feasts of Jehovah that were sanctified, and of every one that willingly offered a freewill-offering unto Jehovah.
3: 6 From the first day of the seventh month began they to offer burnt-offerings unto Jehovah: but the foundation of the temple of Jehovah was not yet laid.
3: 7 They gave money also unto the 30masons, and to the carpenters; and food, and drink, and oil, unto them of Sidon, and to them of Tyre, to bring cedar-trees from Lebanon to the sea, unto Joppa, according to the grant that they had of Cyrus king of Persia.
30Or, hewers,
3: 8 Now in the second year of their coming unto the house of God at Jerusalem, in the second month, began Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, and Jeshua the son of Jozadak, and the rest 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 31have the oversight of the work of the house of Jehovah.
31Or, set forward the work
3: 9 Then stood Jeshua with his sons and his brethren, Kadmiel and his sons, the sons of 32Judah, 33together, to have the oversight of the workmen in the house of God: the sons of Henadad, with their sons and their brethren the Levites.
32In ch. 2:40, Hodaviah,
33Hb. as one,
3: 10 And when the builders laid the foundation of the temple of Jehovah, 34they set the priests in their apparel with trumpets, and the Levites the sons of Asaph with cymbals, to praise Jehovah, after the order of David king of Israel.
34So Massoretic. Some Massoretic mss., Sept., Aram., Vg. read the priests stood in their apparel. [Similarly in Apocrypha, 1Esdras 5:57.]
3: 11 And they sang one to another in praising and giving thanks unto Jehovah, saying, For he is good, for his lovingkindness endureth for ever toward Israel. And all the people shouted with a great shout, when they praised Jehovah, because the foundation of the house of Jehovah was laid.
3: 12 But many of the priests and Levites and heads of fathers’ houses, the old men that had seen 35the first house, when the foundation of this house was laid before their eyes, wept with a loud voice; and many shouted aloud for joy:
35Or, the first house standing on its foundation, when this house was before their eyes,
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.
