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Ezra 3:8

Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

In the second month of the second year after they arrived at God’s house in Jerusalem, Zerubbabel son of Shealtiel, Jeshua son of Jozadak,  and the rest of their brothers, including the priests, the Levites, and all who had returned to Jerusalem from the captivity, began to build. They appointed the Levites who were twenty years old or more to supervise the work on the Lord’s house.

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But Zerubbabel, Jeshua, and the other heads of Israel’s families answered them, ‘You may have no part with us in building a house for our God,  since we alone will build it for the Lord, the God of Israel, as King Cyrus, the king of Persia has commanded us.’


‘Of these,’ David said, ‘twenty-four thousand are to be in charge of the work on the Lord’s temple,  six thousand are to be officers and judges,


men from thirty years old to fifty years old #– #everyone who is qualified  to do work at the tent of meeting.


Jeshua son of Jozadak and his brothers the priests along with Zerubbabel son of Shealtiel  and his brothers began to build the altar of Israel’s God in order to offer burnt offerings on it, as it is written in the law of Moses, the man of God.


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.


‘Zerubbabel’s hands have laid the foundation of this house,  and his hands will complete it. Then you will know that the Lord of Armies has sent me to you.


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.


The sons of Jeconiah the captive: his sons Shealtiel,


They came with Zerubbabel,  Jeshua,  Nehemiah, Seraiah,  Reelaiah, Mordecai, Bilshan, Mispar, Bigvai, Rehum, and Baanah. The number of the Israelite men included


Now the construction of God’s house in Jerusalem had stopped and remained at a standstill until the second year of the reign of King Darius of Persia.


Zerubbabel son of Shealtiel and Jeshua son of Jozadak  began to rebuild God’s house in Jerusalem. The prophets of God  were with them, helping them.


The following were found to have married foreign women from the descendants of the priests: from the descendants of Jeshua son of Jozadak and his brothers: Maaseiah, Eliezer, Jarib, and Gedaliah.


In the second year of King Darius,  , on the first day of the sixth month, the word of the Lord came through the prophet  Haggai to Zerubbabel son of Shealtiel,  the governor of Judah, and to Joshua son of Jehozadak, the high priest:





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