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Jerusalem; and appointed the Levites, from twenty years old and upward, to set forward the work
of the house of the L
ORD
.
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Then stood Jeshua
with
his sons and his brethren, Kadmiel and his sons,
the sons of Judah, together, to set forward the workmen in the house of God: the sons of Henadad,
with
their sons and their brethren the Levites.
10
And when the builders laid the foundation of the
temple of the L
ORD
, they set the priests in their apparel with trumpets, and the Levites the sons of
Asaph with cymbals, to praise the L
ORD
, after the ordinance of David king of Israel.
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And they
sang together by course in praising and giving thanks unto the L
ORD
; because
he is
good, for his
mercy
endureth
for ever toward Israel. And all the people shouted with a great shout, when they
praised the L
ORD
, because the foundation of the house of the L
ORD
was laid.
12
But many of the
priests and Levites and chief of the fathers,
who were
ancient men, that had seen the first house,
when the foundation of this house was laid before their eyes, wept with a loud voice; and many
shouted aloud for joy:
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.
CHAPTER 4
Now when the adversaries of Judah and Benjamin heard that the children of the captivity builded
the temple unto the L
ORD
God of Israel;
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Then they came to Zerubbabel, and to the chief of the
fathers, and said unto them, Let us build with you: for we seek your God, as ye
do;
and we do
sacrifice unto him since the days of Esar- haddon king of Assur, which brought us up hither.
3
But
Zerubbabel, and Jeshua, and the rest of the chief of the fathers of Israel, said unto them, Ye have
nothing to do with us to build an house unto our God; but we ourselves together will build unto the
L
ORD
God of Israel, as king Cyrus the king of Persia hath commanded us.
4
Then the people of the
land weakened the hands of the people of Judah, and troubled them in building,
5
And hired
counsellors against them, to frustrate their purpose, all the days of Cyrus king of Persia, even until
the reign of Darius king of Persia.
6
And in the reign of Ahasuerus, in the beginning of his reign,
wrote they
unto him
an accusation against the inhabitants of Judah and Jerusalem.
7
And in the days of Artaxerxes wrote Bishlam, Mithredath, Tabeel, and the rest of their
companions, unto Artaxerxes king of Persia; and the writing of the letter
was
written in the Syrian
tongue, and interpreted in the Syrian tongue.
8
Rehum the chancellor and Shimshai the scribe wrote
a letter against Jerusalem to Artaxerxes the king in this sort:
9
Then
wrote
Rehum the chancellor,
and Shimshai the scribe, and the rest of their companions; the Dinaites, the Apharsathchites, the
Tarpelites, the Apharsites, the Archevites, the Babylonians, the Susanchites, the Dehavites,
and
the Elamites,
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And the rest of the nations whom the great and noble Asnapper brought over, and
set in the cities of Samaria, and the rest
that are
on this side the river, and at such a time.
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This
is
the copy of the letter that they sent unto him,
even
unto Artaxerxes the king; Thy
servants the men on this side the river, and at such a time.
12
Be it known unto the king, that the
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