Ezra 5:16

Contemporary English Version (Anglicised) 2012

Sheshbazzar then went to Jerusalem and laid the foundation for the temple, and the work is still going on.

Cross References

Ezra 3:10

When the builders had finished laying the foundation of the temple, the priests put on their robes and blew trumpets in honour of the LORD, while the Levites from the family of Asaph praised God with cymbals. All of them followed the instructions given years before by King David.

Ezra 3:8

During the second month of the second year after the people had returned from Babylonia, they started rebuilding the LORD's temple. Zerubbabel son of Shealtiel, Joshua son of Jozadak, the priests, the Levites, and everyone else who had returned started working. Every Levite over twenty years of age was put in charge of some part of the work.

Ezra 5:2

So Zerubbabel the governor and Joshua the priest urged the people to start working on the temple again, and God's prophets encouraged them.

Ezra 6:15

On the third day of the month of Adar in the sixth year of the rule of Darius, the temple was finished.

Haggai 2:18

Today you have completed the foundation for my temple, so listen to what your future will be like.

Zechariah 4:10

Those who have made fun of this day of small beginnings will celebrate when they see Zerubbabel holding this important stone. Those seven lamps represent my eyes—the eyes of the LORD—and they see everything on this earth.

Zechariah 4:9

Zerubbabel laid the foundation for the temple, and he will complete it. Then everyone will know that you were sent by me, the LORD All-Powerful.

John 2:20

The leaders replied, “It took forty-six years to build this temple. What makes you think you can rebuild it in three days?”