These words, which I am ordering you today, are to be on your heart; and you are to teach them carefully to your children. You are to talk about them when you sit at home, when you are traveling on the road, when you lie down and when you get up. (Deuteronomy 6:6-7)
BIBLES
King James Version (1769 Pure Cambridge Edition) and JPS Tanakh (1917).
Both texts are in the public domain. Some original names have been restored
Ezra 3
Tanakh 13 verses
- 1 And when the seventh month was come, and the children of were in the cities, the people gathered themselves together as one man to .
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Then stood up Jeshua the son of Jozadak, and his brethren the priests, and Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, and his brethren, and builded the of the of , to offer burnt-offerings thereon, as it is written in the Law of the man of .
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1 Chronicles 3:17 Haggai 1:1 Ezra 2:2 Luke 3:27 Matthew 1:12-13 Haggai 1:14 Nehemiah 12:1 Zechariah 6:11 Numbers 28:3-31 1 Chronicles 3:19 Psalm 78:68 Zechariah 3:8 Exodus 20:24-25 Haggai 2:23 Deuteronomy 12:5-7 Nehemiah 12:8 Zechariah 3:1 Zechariah 4:6-10 2 Chronicles 6:6 Haggai 2:2-4 Haggai 2:21 Haggai 1:12 -
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And they set the upon its bases; for was upon them because of the people of the countries, and they offered burnt-offerings thereon unto , even burnt-offerings morning and evening.
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- 4 And they kept the feast of tabernacles, as it is written, and offered the daily burnt-offerings by number, according to the , as the duty of every day required;
- 5 and afterward the continual burnt-, and the offerings of the new moons, and of all the appointed seasons of that were hallowed, and of every one that willingly offered a freewill- unto .
- 6 From the first day of the seventh month began they to offer burnt-offerings unto ; but the foundation of the of was not yet laid.
- 7 They gave money also unto the hewers, and to the carpenters; and food, and drink, and oil, unto them of Zidon, and to them of , to bring cedar-trees from Lebanon to the sea, unto Joppa, according to the grant that they had of Cyrus of Persia.
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Now in the second year of their coming unto the house of at , in the second month, began Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, and Jeshua the son of Jozadak, and the rest of their brethren the priests and the Levites, and all they that were come out of the captivity unto ; and appointed the Levites, from twenty years old and upward, to have the oversight of the work of the house of .
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Then stood Jeshua with his sons and his brethren, and Kadmiel and his sons, the sons of , together, to have the oversight of the workmen in the house of ; the sons of Henadad also, with their sons and their brethren the Levites.
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- 10 And when the builders laid the foundation of the of , they set the priests in their apparel with trumpets, and the Levites the sons of Asaph with cymbals, to , according to the direction of of .
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And they sang one to another in praising and giving thanks unto : ‘for He is good, for His endureth for ever toward .’ And all the people shouted with a great shout, when they praised , because the foundation of the house of was laid.
Cross references (27)
1 Chronicles 16:34 Nehemiah 12:24 Psalm 107:1 2 Chronicles 7:3 Jeremiah 33:11 Psalm 106:1 1 Chronicles 16:41 Psalm 103:17 Psalm 136:1-26 Isaiah 44:23 Psalm 118:1 Nehemiah 12:40 Psalm 135:3 Psalm 24:7-10 Exodus 15:21 Psalm 145:1-11 Revelation 21:10-14 Psalm 102:13-14 Psalm 47:5 Luke 1:50 Psalm 47:1 Zechariah 9:9 Isaiah 12:6 Isaiah 6:3 Joshua 6:5 Joshua 6:10 Joshua 6:16 -
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But many of the priests and Levites and heads of fathers’ houses, the old men that had seen the first house standing on its foundation, wept with a loud voice, when this house was before their eyes; and many shouted aloud for joy;
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- 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.