1 Jamque venerat mensis septimus, et erant filii Israël in civitatibus suis: congregatus est ergo populus quasi vir unus in Jerusalem. 2 Et surrexit Josue filius Josedec, et fratres ejus sacerdotes, et Zorobabel filius Salathiel, et fratres ejus, et ædificaverunt altare Dei Israël ut offerrent in eo holocautomata, sicut scriptum est in lege Moysi viri Dei. 3 Collocaverunt autem altare Dei super bases suas, deterrentibus eos per circuitum populis terrarum: et obtulerunt super illud holocaustum Domino mane et vespere. 4 Feceruntque solemnitatem tabernaculorum, sicut scriptum est, et holocaustum diebus singulis per ordinem secundum præceptum opus diei in die suo. 5 Et post hæc holocaustum juge, tam in calendis quam in universis solemnitatibus Domini quæ erant consecratæ, et in omnibus in quibus ultro offerebatur munus Domino. 6 A primo die mensis septimi cœperunt offerre holocaustum Domino: porro templum Dei nondum fundatum erat. 7 Dederunt autem pecunias latomis et cæmentariis: cibum quoque, et potum, et oleum Sidoniis Tyriisque, ut deferrent ligna cedrina de Libano ad mare Joppe, juxta quod præceperat Cyrus rex Persarum eis. 8 Anno autem secundo adventus eorum ad templum Dei in Jerusalem, mense secundo, cœperunt Zorobabel filius Salathiel, et Josue filius Josedec, et reliqui de fratribus eorum sacerdotes, et Levitæ, et omnes qui venerant de captivitate in Jerusalem, et constituerunt Levitas a viginti annis et supra, ut urgerent opus Domini. 9 Stetitque Josue et filii ejus et fratres ejus, Cedmihel et filii ejus, et filii Juda, quasi vir unus, ut instarent super eos qui faciebant opus in templo Dei: filii Henadad, et filii eorum, et fratres eorum Levitæ. 10 Fundato igitur a cæmentariis templo Domini, steterunt sacerdotes in ornatu suo cum tubis, et Levitæ filii Asaph in cymbalis, ut laudarent Deum per manus David regis Israël. 11 Et concinebant in hymnis, et confessione Domino: Quoniam bonus, quoniam in æternum misericordia ejus super Israël. Omnis quoque populus vociferabatur clamore magno in laudando Dominum, eo quod fundatum esset templum Domini. 12 Plurimi etiam de sacerdotibus et Levitis, et principes patrum, et seniores, qui viderant templum prius cum fundatum esset, et hoc templum, in oculis eorum, flebant voce magna: et multi vociferantes in lætitia, elevabant vocem. 13 Nec poterat quisquam agnoscere vocem clamoris lætantium, et vocem fletus populi: commistim enim populus vociferabatur clamore magno, et vox audiebatur procul.
Ezra 3 Clementine Vulgate
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People
Henadad
Named as the father of the Levites ("sons of Henadad") who supervised the temple work; Binnui son of Henadad helped rebuild the wall.
Cited in the guide: Ezra 3:9; Nehemiah 3:18; Nehemiah 10:9
Jehozadak
Son of Seraiah, who went into captivity when the LORD sent Judah and Jerusalem into exile; his son Jeshua (Joshua) was high priest after the return.
Cited in the guide: 1 Chronicles 6:14; 1 Chronicles 6:15; Ezra 3:2
Jeshua
Levite who returned with Zerubbabel, supervised the temple work with Kadmiel, taught the people the Law, and led the confession and blessing. The list in Neh 10:9 names a Jeshua…
Cited in the guide: Ezra 2:40; Ezra 3:9; Nehemiah 8:7
Joshua
The high priest, son of Jehozadak (called Jeshua son of Jozadak in Ezra and Nehemiah), who returned with Zerubbabel, rebuilt the altar, and was addressed by Haggai and Zechariah;…
Cited in the guide: Ezra 2:2; Ezra 3:2; Ezra 3:8
Judah
Levite (called Yehudah in Ezra 3:9, a family with Kadmiel) who supervised the workers; a Levite Judah also appears in Neh 12:8.
Cited in the guide: Ezra 3:9; Nehemiah 12:8
Kadmiel
Levite whose family returned and who, with Jeshua and the sons of Henadad, oversaw the temple builders; he later joined in the Levites’ prayer and the covenant.
Cited in the guide: Ezra 2:40; Ezra 3:9; Nehemiah 9:4
Shealtiel
A son of the exiled king, a link between fallen throne and hoped-for return.
Cited in the guide: 1 Chron. 3:17; Ezra 3:2; Hag. 1:1; Matt. 1:12; Luke 3:27
Zerubbabel
He led the return from Babylon and rebuilt the temple in Jerusalem.
Cited in the guide: Ezra 3-6; Hag. 2:23; Zech. 4; Matt. 1:12-13
Cross references (12)
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- 1 Acts 4:32; Leviticus 23:24; 1 Corinthians 1:10; Nehemiah 7:73–8:2; Acts 2:46
- 2 Luke 3:27; Haggai 1:1; Ezra 2:2; 1 Chronicles 3:17; Exodus 20:24–25
- 3 Numbers 28:2–8; Ezra 4:4; Exodus 29:38–42; 2 Chronicles 4:1; Ezra 8:21–22
- 4 Exodus 23:16; Numbers 29:12–38; Nehemiah 8:14–17; Zechariah 14:16–19; John 7:37
- 5 Numbers 29:39; Numbers 28:19; Numbers 29:8; Deuteronomy 12:17; Numbers 29:2
- 7 1 Kings 5:6; Acts 12:20; Acts 9:36; Jonah 1:3; 1 Kings 5:9–11
- 8 Ezra 4:3; 1 Chronicles 23:4; 1 Chronicles 23:24–32; Numbers 4:3
- 9 Ezra 2:40; Nehemiah 7:43; Ezra 3:8
- 10 1 Chronicles 25:1–7; Zechariah 4:10; 1 Chronicles 16:4–7; 1 Chronicles 6:31–48; 1 Chronicles 15:27
- 11 Psalm 106:1; 1 Chronicles 16:34; Psalm 107:1; Psalm 103:17; Psalm 118:1
- 12 Haggai 2:3; Jeremiah 31:8–9; Matthew 13:31–32; Isaiah 60:22; Daniel 2:34–35
- 13 Luke 19:37–40; 1 Samuel 4:5; 1 Kings 1:45; Jeremiah 33:11; Psalm 100:1–2
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