Ezra Chapter 3

• Ezra 3:1
  Ezra.
• Ezra 3:2
  When the seventh month had come, and the children of Israel were in the cities, the people gathered themselves together as one man to Jerusalem.
• Ezra 3:3
  Then Jeshua the son of Jozadak stood up with his brothers the priests and Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel and his relatives, and built the altar of th...
• Ezra 3:4
  In spite of their fear because of the peoples of the surrounding lands, they set the altar on its base; and they offered burnt offerings on it to the ...
• Ezra 3:5
  They kept the feast of booths, as it is written, and offered the daily burnt offerings by number, according to the ordinance, as the duty of every day...
• Ezra 3:6
  and afterward the continual burnt offering, the offerings of the new moons, of all the set feasts of the LORD that were consecrated, and of everyone w...
• Ezra 3:7
  From the first day of the seventh month, they began to offer burnt offerings to the LORD; but the foundation of the LORD’s temple was not yet laid.
• Ezra 3:8
  They also gave money to the masons and to the carpenters. They also gave food, drink, and oil to the people of Sidon and Tyre to bring cedar trees fro...
• Ezra 3:9
  Now in the second year of their coming to God’s house at Jerusalem, in the second month, Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, Jeshua the son of Jozadak, a...
• Ezra 3:10
  Then Jeshua stood with his sons and his brothers, Kadmiel and his sons, the sons of Judah, together to have the oversight of the workmen in God’s hous...
• Ezra 3:11
  When the builders laid the foundation of the LORD’s temple, they set the priests in their vestments with trumpets, with the Levites the sons of Asaph ...
• Ezra 3:12
  They sang to one another in praising and giving thanks to the LORD, “For he is good, for his loving kindness endures forever toward Israel.” All the p...
• Ezra 3:13
  But many of the priests and Levites and heads of fathers’ households, the old men who had seen the first house, when the foundation of this house was ...
• Ezra 3:14
  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 sho...