1When the seventh month had come, and the children of Israel were in the cities, the people gathered themselves together as one man to Jerusalem.

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Acts 4:32, 1 Corinthians 1:10, Leviticus 23:24, Acts 4:32, 1 Corinthians 1:10

2Then Jeshua the son of Jozadak stood up with his brothers the priests, and Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel and his brothers, and built the altar of the God of Israel, to offer burnt offerings thereon, as it is written in the law of Moses the man of God.

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Ezra 2:2, Luke 3:27, Haggai 1:1, 1 Chronicles 3:17, Ezra 2:2

3In 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 Lord, even burnt offerings morning and evening.

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Numbers 28:2, Numbers 28:8, Ezra 4:4, Numbers 28:2, Numbers 28:8

4They kept the feast of tents, as it is written, and offered the daily burnt offerings by number, according to the ordinance, as the duty of every day required;

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Exodus 23:16, Numbers 29:12, Numbers 29:38, Exodus 23:16, Numbers 29:12

5and 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 who willingly offered a freewill offering to the Lord.

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Numbers 29:39, Numbers 29:39, Numbers 29:2, Exodus 29:38, Exodus 29:42

6From 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.

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7They 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 from Lebanon to the sea, to Joppa, according to the grant that they had from Cyrus King of Persia.

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1 Kings 5:6, 1 Kings 5:6, Acts 9:36, Acts 12:20, Acts 9:36

8Now in the second year of their coming to God's house at Jerusalem, in the second month, Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, and Jeshua the son of Jozadak, and the rest of their brothers the priests and the Levites, and all those who had come out of the captivity to Jerusalem, began the work and appointed the Levites, from twenty years old and upward, to have the oversight of the work of the Lord's house.

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Ezra 4:3, Ezra 4:3, 1 Chronicles 23:4, 1 Chronicles 23:4, Numbers 4:3

9Then 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 house: the sons of Henadad, with their sons and their brothers the Levites.

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Ezra 2:40, Ezra 2:40, Nehemiah 7:43, Ezra 3:8, Nehemiah 7:43

10When the builders laid the foundation of the Lord's temple, they set the priests in their clothing with trumpets, with the Levites the sons of Asaph with cymbals, to praise the Lord, according to the directions of David king of Israel.

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1 Chronicles 15:24, 1 Chronicles 16:42, 1 Samuel 22:18, 1 Chronicles 16:4, 1 Chronicles 16:7

11They 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 people shouted with a great shout, when they praised the Lord, because the foundation of the house of the Lord had been laid.

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1 Chronicles 16:34, 1 Chronicles 16:34, Psalms 106:1, Psalms 106:1, Psalms 107:1

12But 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 laid before their eyes, wept with a loud voice. Many also shouted aloud for joy,

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Haggai 2:3, Haggai 2:3, Matthew 13:31, Matthew 13:32, Job 8:7

13so 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 far away.

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1 Samuel 4:5, Luke 19:37, Luke 19:40, 1 Samuel 4:5, Luke 19:37