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Ezra 3:10

Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

When the builders had laid the foundation of the Lord’s temple, the priests, dressed in their robes and holding trumpets, and the Levites descended from Asaph,  holding cymbals, took their positions to praise the Lord, as King David of Israel had instructed.

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For who despises the day of small things?  These seven eyes of the Lord, which scan throughout the whole earth, will rejoice when they see the ceremonial stone  in Zerubbabel’s hand.’


The singers, the descendants of Asaph, were at their stations according to the command of David, Asaph, Heman, and Jeduthun the king’s seer.  Also, the gatekeepers were at each temple gate.  None of them left their tasks because their Levite brothers had made preparations for them.


four thousand are to be gatekeepers, and four thousand are to praise the Lord with the instruments that I have made for worship.’


Heman and Jeduthun had with them trumpets and cymbals to play and musical instruments of God.  Jeduthun’s sons were at the city gate.


So David left Asaph and his relatives there before the ark of the Lord’s covenant to minister regularly  before the ark according to the daily requirements.


Now David was dressed in a robe of fine linen, as were all the Levites who were carrying the ark, as well as the singers and Chenaniah, the music leader of the singers. David also wore a linen ephod.


The priests, Shebaniah, Joshaphat, Nethanel, Amasai, Zechariah, Benaiah, and Eliezer, were to blow trumpets  before the ark of God. Obed-edom and Jehiah were also to be gatekeepers for the ark.


So the king said to Doeg, ‘Go and execute the priests! ’ So Doeg the Edomite went and executed the priests himself. On that day, he killed eighty-five men  who wore linen ephods.


Then this same Sheshbazzar came and laid the foundation of God’s house in Jerusalem.  It has been under construction from that time until now,  but it has not been completed.


‘Now from this day on, think carefully: Before one stone was placed on another in the Lord’s temple,


So he answered me, ‘This is the word of the Lord to Zerubbabel: “Not by strength or by might, but by my Spirit,”  says the Lord of Armies.


“What are you, great mountain?  Before Zerubbabel you will become a plain.  And he will bring out the capstone accompanied by shouts of: Grace, grace to it! ” ’


You are to tell him: This is what the Lord of Armies says: Here is a man whose name is Branch;  he will branch out from his place and build the Lord’s temple.


by asking the priests who were at the house of the Lord of Armies as well as the prophets, ‘Should we mourn and fast in the fifth month as we have done these many years? ’


the eighteenth to Hanani, his sons, and his relatives – 12


the Levitical singers dressed in fine linen and carrying cymbals, harps, and lyres  were standing east of the altar, and with them were 120 priests blowing trumpets.  The Levitical singers were descendants of Asaph, Heman, and Jeduthun and their sons  and relatives.


Afterwards, they made preparations for themselves and for the priests, since the priests, the descendants of Aaron, were busy offering up burnt offerings and fat until night. So the Levites made preparations for themselves and for the priests, the descendants of Aaron.


The singers included Asaph’s   descendants 128





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