Ezra 3 Cross References - BBE

¹ And when the seventh month came, and the children of Israel were in the towns, the people came together like one man to Jerusalem. ² Then Jeshua, the son of Jozadak, and his brothers the priests, and Zerubbabel, the son of Shealtiel, with his brothers, got up and made the altar of the God of Israel for burned offerings as is recorded in the law of Moses, the man of God. ³ They put the altar on its base; for fear was on them because of the people of the countries: and they made burned offerings on it to the Lord, even burned offerings morning and evening. ⁴ And they kept the feast of tents, as it is recorded, making the regular burned offerings every day by number, as it is ordered; for every day what was needed. ⁵ And after that, the regular burned offering and the offerings for the new moons and all the fixed feasts of the Lord which had been made holy, and the offering of everyone who freely gave his offering to the Lord. ⁶ From the first day of the seventh month they made a start with the burned offerings, but the base of the Temple of the Lord had still not been put in its place. ⁷ And they gave money to the stoneworkers and woodworkers; and meat and drink and oil to the people of Zidon and of Tyre, for the transport of cedar-trees from Lebanon to the sea, to Joppa, as Cyrus, king of Persia, had given them authority to do. ⁸ Now in the second year of their coming into the house of God in Jerusalem, in the second month, the work was taken in hand by 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 from the land where they were prisoners to Jerusalem: and they made the Levites, of twenty years old and over, responsible for overseeing the work of the house of the Lord. ⁹ Then Jeshua with his sons and his brothers, Kadmiel with his sons, the sons of Hodaviah, together took up the work of overseeing the workmen in the house of God: the sons of Henadad with their sons and their brothers, the Levites. ¹⁰ And when the builders put in position the base of the Temple of the Lord, the priests, dressed in their robes, took their places with horns, and the Levites, the sons of Asaph, with brass instruments, to give praise to the Lord in the way ordered by David, king of Israel. ¹¹ And they gave praise to the Lord, answering one another in their songs and saying, For he is good, for his mercy to Israel is eternal. And all the people gave a great cry of joy, when they gave praise to the Lord, because the base of the Lord's house was put in place. ¹² But a number of the priests and Levites and the heads of families, old men who had seen the first house, when the base of this house was put down before their eyes, were overcome with weeping; and a number were crying out with joy: ¹³ So that in the ears of the people the cry of joy was mixed with the sound of weeping; for the cries of the people were loud and came to the ears of those who were a long way off.

¹³ And the overseers went on driving them and saying, Do your full day's work as before when there were dry stems for you.

²¹ And Miriam, answering, said, Make a song to the Lord, for he is lifted up in glory; the horse and the horseman he has sent into the sea.

²⁴ Make for me an altar of earth, offering on it your burned offerings and your peace-offerings, your sheep and your oxen: in every place where I have put the memory of my name, I will come to you and give you my blessing. ²⁵ And if you make me an altar of stone do not make it of cut stones: for the touch of an instrument will make it unclean.

¹⁴ Three times in the year you are to keep a feast to me. ¹⁵ You are to keep the feast of unleavened bread; for seven days let your bread be without leaven, as I gave you orders, at the regular time in the month Abib for in it you came out of Egypt; and let no one come before me without an offering: ¹⁶ And the feast of the grain-cutting, the first-fruits of your planted fields: and the feast at the start of the year, when you have got in all the fruit from your fields.

¹⁶ And the feast of the grain-cutting, the first-fruits of your planted fields: and the feast at the start of the year, when you have got in all the fruit from your fields. ¹⁷ Three times in the year let all your males come before the Lord God.

⁴⁰ And for Aaron's sons you are to make coats, and bands, and head-dresses, so that they may be clothed with glory and honour. ⁴¹ These you are to put on Aaron, your brother, and on his sons, putting oil on them, separating them and making them holy, to do the work of priests to me. ⁴² And you are to make them linen trousers, covering their bodies from the middle to the knee;

³⁸ Now this is the offering which you are to make on the altar: two lambs in their first year, every day regularly.

³⁸ Now this is the offering which you are to make on the altar: two lambs in their first year, every day regularly. ³⁹ One lamb is to be offered in the morning and the other in the evening: ⁴⁰ And with the one lamb, a tenth part of an ephah of the best meal, mixed with a fourth part of a hin of clear oil; and the fourth part of a hin of wine for a drink offering. ⁴¹ And the other lamb is to be offered in the evening, and with it the same meal offering and drink offering, for a sweet smell, an offering made by fire to the Lord. ⁴² This is to be a regular burned offering made from generation to generation, at the door of the Tent of meeting before the Lord, where I will come face to face with you and have talk with you.

¹⁷ Now when the noise and the voices of the people came to the ears of Joshua, he said to Moses, There is a noise of war in the tents. ¹⁸ And Moses said, It is not the voice of men who are overcoming in the fight, or the cry of those who have been overcome; it is the sound of songs which comes to my ear.

³ If the offering is a burned offering of the herd, let him give a male without a mark: he is to give it at the door of the Tent of meeting so that he may be pleasing to the Lord.

²⁹ And let this be an order to you for ever: in the seventh month, on the tenth day, you are to keep yourselves from pleasure and do no sort of work, those who are Israelites by birth and those from other lands who are living among you:

²⁴ Say to the children of Israel, In the seventh month, on the first day of the month, let there be a special day of rest for you, a day of memory, marked by the blowing of horns, a meeting for worship.

²⁷ The tenth day of this seventh month is the day for the taking away of sin; let it be a holy day of worship; you are to keep from pleasure, and give to the Lord an offering made by fire. ²⁸ And on that day you may do no sort of work, for it is a day of taking away sin, to make you clean before the Lord your God. ²⁹ For any person, whoever he may be, who takes his pleasure on that day will be cut off from his people. ³⁰ And if any person, whoever he may be, on that day does any sort of work, I will send destruction on him from among his people. ³¹ You may not do any sort of work: this is an order for ever through all your generations wherever you may be living. ³² Let this be a Sabbath of special rest to you, and keep yourselves from all pleasure; on the ninth day of the month at nightfall from evening to evening, let this Sabbath be kept. ³³ And the Lord said to Moses, ³⁴ Say to the children of Israel, On the fifteenth day of this seventh month let the feast of tents be kept to the Lord for seven days.

³⁴ Say to the children of Israel, On the fifteenth day of this seventh month let the feast of tents be kept to the Lord for seven days. ³⁵ On the first day there will be a holy meeting: do no field-work.

³⁵ On the first day there will be a holy meeting: do no field-work. ³⁶ Every day for seven days give an offering made by fire to the Lord; and on the eighth day there is to be a holy meeting, when you are to give an offering made by fire to the Lord; this is a special holy day: you may do no field-work on that day.

³⁶ Every day for seven days give an offering made by fire to the Lord; and on the eighth day there is to be a holy meeting, when you are to give an offering made by fire to the Lord; this is a special holy day: you may do no field-work on that day. ³⁷ These are the fixed feasts of the Lord, to be kept by you as holy days of worship, for making an offering by fire to the Lord; a burned offering, a meal offering, an offering of beasts, and drink offerings; every one on its special day; ³⁸ In addition to the Sabbaths of the Lord, and in addition to the things you give and the oaths you make and the free offerings to the Lord. ³⁹ But on the fifteenth day of the seventh month, when you have got in all the fruits of the land, you will keep the feast of the Lord for seven days: the first day will be a Sabbath, and the eighth day the same. ⁴⁰ On the first day, take the fruit of fair trees, branches of palm-trees, and branches of thick trees and trees from the riverside, and be glad before the Lord for seven days. ⁴¹ And let this feast be kept before the Lord for seven days in the year: it is a rule for ever from generation to generation; in the seventh month let it be kept. ⁴² For seven days you will be living in tents; all those who are Israelites by birth are to make tents their living-places: ⁴³ So that future generations may keep in mind how I gave the children of Israel tents as their living-places when I took them out of the land of Egypt: I am the Lord your God. ⁴⁴ And Moses made clear to the children of Israel the orders about the fixed feasts of the Lord.

³ All those from thirty to fifty years old who are able to do the work of the Tent of meeting.

¹ And the Lord said to Moses, ² Make two silver horns of hammered work, to be used for getting the people together and to give the sign for the moving of the tents. ³ When they are sounded, all the people are to come together to you at the door of the Tent of meeting. ⁴ If only one of them is sounded, then the chiefs, the heads of the thousands of Israel, are to come to you. ⁵ When a loud note is sounded, the tents placed on the east side are to go forward. ⁶ At the sound of a second loud note, the tents on the south side are to go forward: the loud note will be the sign to go forward. ⁷ But when all the people are to come together, the horn is to be sounded but not loudly. ⁸ The horns are to be sounded by the sons of Aaron, the priests; this is to be a law for you for ever, from generation to generation. ⁹ And if you go to war in your land against any who do you wrong, then let the loud note of the horn be sounded; and the Lord your God will keep you in mind and give you salvation from those who are against you. ¹⁰ And on days of joy and on your regular feasts and on the first day of every month, let the horns be sounded over your burned offerings and your peace-offerings; and they will put the Lord in mind of you: I am the Lord your God.

² Give orders to the children of Israel and say to them, Let it be your care to give me my offerings at their regular times, the food of the offerings made by fire to me for a sweet smell. ³ Say to them, This is the offering made by fire which you are to give to the Lord; he-lambs of the first year without any mark, two every day as a regular burned offering.

³ Say to them, This is the offering made by fire which you are to give to the Lord; he-lambs of the first year without any mark, two every day as a regular burned offering.

³ Say to them, This is the offering made by fire which you are to give to the Lord; he-lambs of the first year without any mark, two every day as a regular burned offering. ⁴ Let one be offered in the morning, and the other at evening;

⁴ Let one be offered in the morning, and the other at evening;

⁴ Let one be offered in the morning, and the other at evening; ⁵ And the tenth part of an ephah of the best meal for a meal offering mixed with the fourth part of a hin of clear oil.

⁵ And the tenth part of an ephah of the best meal for a meal offering mixed with the fourth part of a hin of clear oil.

⁵ And the tenth part of an ephah of the best meal for a meal offering mixed with the fourth part of a hin of clear oil. ⁶ It is a regular burned offering, as it was ordered in Mount Sinai, for a sweet smell, an offering made by fire to the Lord.

⁶ It is a regular burned offering, as it was ordered in Mount Sinai, for a sweet smell, an offering made by fire to the Lord.

⁶ It is a regular burned offering, as it was ordered in Mount Sinai, for a sweet smell, an offering made by fire to the Lord. ⁷ And for its drink offering take the fourth part of a hin for one lamb: in the holy place let the wine be drained out for a drink offering for the Lord.

⁷ And for its drink offering take the fourth part of a hin for one lamb: in the holy place let the wine be drained out for a drink offering for the Lord.

⁷ And for its drink offering take the fourth part of a hin for one lamb: in the holy place let the wine be drained out for a drink offering for the Lord. ⁸ Let the other lamb be offered at evening; like the meal offering of the morning and its drink offering, let it be offered as an offering made by fire for a sweet smell to the Lord.

⁸ Let the other lamb be offered at evening; like the meal offering of the morning and its drink offering, let it be offered as an offering made by fire for a sweet smell to the Lord.

⁸ Let the other lamb be offered at evening; like the meal offering of the morning and its drink offering, let it be offered as an offering made by fire for a sweet smell to the Lord. ⁹ And on the Sabbath day, two he-lambs of the first year, without any mark, and two tenth parts of the best meal for a meal offering mixed with oil, and its drink offering:

⁹ And on the Sabbath day, two he-lambs of the first year, without any mark, and two tenth parts of the best meal for a meal offering mixed with oil, and its drink offering: ¹⁰ This is the burned offering for every Sabbath day, in addition to the regular burned offering, and its drink offering.

¹⁰ This is the burned offering for every Sabbath day, in addition to the regular burned offering, and its drink offering. ¹¹ And on the first day of every month you are to give a burned offering to the Lord; two oxen, one male sheep, and seven he-lambs of the first year, without any mark;

¹¹ And on the first day of every month you are to give a burned offering to the Lord; two oxen, one male sheep, and seven he-lambs of the first year, without any mark; ¹² And three tenth parts of the best meal for a meal offering mixed with oil, for every ox; and two tenth parts of the best meal for a meal offering mixed with oil, for the one sheep; ¹³ And a separate tenth part of the best meal mixed with oil for a meal offering for every lamb; for a burned offering of a sweet smell, an offering made by fire to the Lord. ¹⁴ And their drink offerings are to be half a hin of wine for an ox, and the third part of a hin for a male sheep, and the fourth part of a hin for a lamb: this is the burned offering for every month through all the months of the year.

¹⁴ And their drink offerings are to be half a hin of wine for an ox, and the third part of a hin for a male sheep, and the fourth part of a hin for a lamb: this is the burned offering for every month through all the months of the year. ¹⁵ And one he-goat for a sin-offering to the Lord; it is to be offered in addition to the regular burned offering and its drink offering. ¹⁶ And in the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month, is the Lord's Passover. ¹⁷ On the fifteenth day of this month there is to be a feast; for seven days let your food be unleavened cakes. ¹⁸ On the first day there is to be a holy meeting: you may do no sort of field-work: ¹⁹ And you are to give an offering made by fire, a burned offering to the Lord; two oxen, one male sheep, and seven he-lambs of the first year, without any mark:

¹⁹ And you are to give an offering made by fire, a burned offering to the Lord; two oxen, one male sheep, and seven he-lambs of the first year, without any mark: ²⁰ And their meal offering, the best meal mixed with oil: let three tenth parts of an ephah be offered for an ox and two tenth parts for a male sheep; ²¹ And a separate tenth part for every one of the seven lambs; ²² And one he-goat for a sin-offering to take away your sin. ²³ These are to be offered in addition to the morning burned offering, which is a regular burned offering at all times. ²⁴ In this way, every day for seven days, give the food of the offering made by fire, a sweet smell to the Lord: it is to be offered in addition to the regular burned offering, and its drink offering. ²⁵ Then on the seventh day there will be a holy meeting; you may do no field-work. ²⁶ And at the time of the first-fruits, when you give an offering of new meal to the Lord at your feast of weeks, there is to be a holy meeting: you may do no field-work: ²⁷ And give a burned offering for a sweet smell to the Lord; two oxen, one male sheep, and seven he-lambs of the first year;

²⁷ And give a burned offering for a sweet smell to the Lord; two oxen, one male sheep, and seven he-lambs of the first year; ²⁸ And their meal offering, the best meal mixed with oil, three tenth parts for an ox, two tenth parts for a male sheep, ²⁹ And a separate tenth part for every one of the seven lambs; ³⁰ And one he-goat to take away your sin. ³¹ These are in addition to the regular burned offering and its meal offering; take care that they are without any mark, and let them be offered with their drink offerings.

¹ In the seventh month, on the first day of the month, let there be a holy meeting; on it you may do no field-work; let the day be marked by the blowing of horns; ² And give to the Lord a burned offering for a sweet smell; one ox, one male sheep, seven he-lambs of the first year, without any mark on them:

² And give to the Lord a burned offering for a sweet smell; one ox, one male sheep, seven he-lambs of the first year, without any mark on them: ³ And their meal offering, the best meal mixed with oil, three tenth parts for an ox, two tenth parts for a male sheep, ⁴ And a separate tenth part for every one of the seven lambs; ⁵ And one he-goat for a sin-offering, to take away your sin: ⁶ In addition to the burned offering of the new moon, and its meal offering, and the regular burned offering and its meal offering, and their drink offerings, as they are ordered, for a sweet smell, an offering made by fire to the Lord. ⁷ And on the tenth day of this seventh month there will be a holy meeting; keep yourselves from pleasure, and do no sort of work; ⁸ And give to the Lord a burned offering for a sweet smell; one ox, one male sheep, seven he-lambs of the first year: only those without any mark on them may be used:

⁸ And give to the Lord a burned offering for a sweet smell; one ox, one male sheep, seven he-lambs of the first year: only those without any mark on them may be used: ⁹ And their meal offering, the best meal mixed with oil, three tenth parts for an ox, two tenth parts for a male sheep, ¹⁰ A separate tenth part for every one of the seven lambs; ¹¹ One he-goat for a sin-offering; in addition to the offering for taking away your sin, and the regular burned offering and its meal offering, and their drink offerings. ¹² And on the fifteenth day of the seventh month let there be a holy meeting; do no field-work, and keep a feast to the Lord for seven days;

¹² And on the fifteenth day of the seventh month let there be a holy meeting; do no field-work, and keep a feast to the Lord for seven days; ¹³ And give a burned offering, an offering made by fire of a sweet smell to the Lord, thirteen oxen, two male sheep, fourteen he-lambs of the first year, all without any mark on them;

¹³ And give a burned offering, an offering made by fire of a sweet smell to the Lord, thirteen oxen, two male sheep, fourteen he-lambs of the first year, all without any mark on them;

¹³ And give a burned offering, an offering made by fire of a sweet smell to the Lord, thirteen oxen, two male sheep, fourteen he-lambs of the first year, all without any mark on them; ¹⁴ And their meal offering, the best meal mixed with oil, three tenth parts for every one of the thirteen oxen, two tenth parts for every male sheep,

¹⁴ And their meal offering, the best meal mixed with oil, three tenth parts for every one of the thirteen oxen, two tenth parts for every male sheep, ¹⁵ And a separate tenth part for every one of the fourteen lambs;

¹⁵ And a separate tenth part for every one of the fourteen lambs; ¹⁶ And one he-goat for a sin-offering; in addition to the regular burned offering, and its meal offering, and its drink offering.

¹⁶ And one he-goat for a sin-offering; in addition to the regular burned offering, and its meal offering, and its drink offering. ¹⁷ On the second day of the feast give an offering of twelve oxen, two male sheep, fourteen he-lambs of the first year, without any mark on them;

¹⁷ On the second day of the feast give an offering of twelve oxen, two male sheep, fourteen he-lambs of the first year, without any mark on them; ¹⁸ And their meal offering and their drink offerings for the oxen and the sheep and the lambs, in relation to their number, as it is ordered:

¹⁸ And their meal offering and their drink offerings for the oxen and the sheep and the lambs, in relation to their number, as it is ordered: ¹⁹ And one he-goat for a sin-offering in addition to the regular burned offering, and its meal offering, and their drink offerings.

¹⁹ And one he-goat for a sin-offering in addition to the regular burned offering, and its meal offering, and their drink offerings. ²⁰ And on the third day eleven oxen, two male sheep, fourteen he-lambs of the first year, without any mark;

²⁰ And on the third day eleven oxen, two male sheep, fourteen he-lambs of the first year, without any mark; ²¹ And their meal offering and drink offerings for the oxen, for the male sheep, and for the lambs, in relation to their number, as it is ordered:

²¹ And their meal offering and drink offerings for the oxen, for the male sheep, and for the lambs, in relation to their number, as it is ordered: ²² And one he-goat for a sin-offering; in addition to the regular burned offering, and its meal offering, and its drink offering.

²² And one he-goat for a sin-offering; in addition to the regular burned offering, and its meal offering, and its drink offering. ²³ And on the fourth day ten oxen, two male sheep, fourteen he-lambs of the first year, without any mark:

²³ And on the fourth day ten oxen, two male sheep, fourteen he-lambs of the first year, without any mark: ²⁴ And their meal offering and their drink offerings for the oxen, for the male sheep, and for the lambs, in relation to their number, as it is ordered.

²⁴ And their meal offering and their drink offerings for the oxen, for the male sheep, and for the lambs, in relation to their number, as it is ordered. ²⁵ And one he-goat for a sin-offering; in addition to the regular burned offering, and its meal offering, and its drink offering.

²⁵ And one he-goat for a sin-offering; in addition to the regular burned offering, and its meal offering, and its drink offering. ²⁶ And on the fifth day nine oxen, two male sheep, fourteen he-lambs of the first year, without any mark:

²⁶ And on the fifth day nine oxen, two male sheep, fourteen he-lambs of the first year, without any mark: ²⁷ And their meal offering and their drink offerings for the oxen, for the male sheep, and for the lambs, in relation to their number, as it is ordered:

²⁷ And their meal offering and their drink offerings for the oxen, for the male sheep, and for the lambs, in relation to their number, as it is ordered: ²⁸ And one he-goat for a sin-offering; in addition to the regular burned offering, and its meal offering, and its drink offering.

²⁸ And one he-goat for a sin-offering; in addition to the regular burned offering, and its meal offering, and its drink offering. ²⁹ And on the sixth day eight oxen, two male sheep, fourteen he-lambs of the first year, without any mark:

²⁹ And on the sixth day eight oxen, two male sheep, fourteen he-lambs of the first year, without any mark: ³⁰ And their meal offering and their drink offerings for the oxen, for the male sheep, and for the lambs, in relation to their number, as it is ordered:

³⁰ And their meal offering and their drink offerings for the oxen, for the male sheep, and for the lambs, in relation to their number, as it is ordered: ³¹ And one he-goat for a sin-offering; in addition to the regular burned offering, its meal offering, and its drink offerings.

³¹ And one he-goat for a sin-offering; in addition to the regular burned offering, its meal offering, and its drink offerings. ³² And on the seventh day seven oxen, two male sheep, fourteen he-lambs of the first year, without any mark:

³² And on the seventh day seven oxen, two male sheep, fourteen he-lambs of the first year, without any mark: ³³ And their meal offering and their drink offerings for the oxen, for the male sheep, and for the lambs, in relation to their number, as it is ordered:

³³ And their meal offering and their drink offerings for the oxen, for the male sheep, and for the lambs, in relation to their number, as it is ordered: ³⁴ And one he-goat for a sin-offering; in addition to the regular burned offering, its meal offering, and its drink offering.

³⁴ And one he-goat for a sin-offering; in addition to the regular burned offering, its meal offering, and its drink offering. ³⁵ On the eighth day let there be a holy meeting: you may do no field-work;

³⁵ On the eighth day let there be a holy meeting: you may do no field-work; ³⁶ And give a burned offering, an offering made by fire of a sweet smell to the Lord: one ox, one male sheep, seven he-lambs of the first year, without any mark:

³⁶ And give a burned offering, an offering made by fire of a sweet smell to the Lord: one ox, one male sheep, seven he-lambs of the first year, without any mark: ³⁷ With the meal offering and the drink offerings for the ox, the male sheep, and the lambs, in relation to their number, as it is ordered:

³⁷ With the meal offering and the drink offerings for the ox, the male sheep, and the lambs, in relation to their number, as it is ordered: ³⁸ And one he-goat for a sin-offering; in addition to the regular burned offering, and its meal offering, and its drink offering.

³⁸ And one he-goat for a sin-offering; in addition to the regular burned offering, and its meal offering, and its drink offering. ³⁹ These are the offerings which you are to give to the Lord at your regular feasts, in addition to the offerings for an oath, and the free offerings you give, for your burned offerings and your drink offerings and your peace-offerings.

³⁹ These are the offerings which you are to give to the Lord at your regular feasts, in addition to the offerings for an oath, and the free offerings you give, for your burned offerings and your drink offerings and your peace-offerings. ⁴⁰ So Moses gave the children of Israel all these directions as the Lord had given him orders.

⁵ But let your hearts be turned to the place which will be marked out by the Lord your God, among your tribes, to put his name there; ⁶ And there you are to take your burned offerings and other offerings, and the tenth part of your goods, and the offerings to be lifted up to the Lord, and the offerings of your oaths, and those which you give freely from the impulse of your hearts, and the first births among your herds and your flocks;

⁶ And there you are to take your burned offerings and other offerings, and the tenth part of your goods, and the offerings to be lifted up to the Lord, and the offerings of your oaths, and those which you give freely from the impulse of your hearts, and the first births among your herds and your flocks; ⁷ There you and all your families are to make a feast before the Lord your God, with joy in everything to which you put your hand, because the Lord has given you his blessing.

¹⁷ In your towns you are not to take as food the tenth part of your grain, or of your wine or your oil, or the first births of your herds or of your flocks, or anything offered under an oath, or freely offered to the Lord, or given as a lifted offering;

⁵ And at the sound of a long note on the horns, let all the people give a loud cry; and the wall of the town will come down flat, and all the people are to go straight forward.

¹⁰ And to the people Joshua gave an order, saying, You will give no cry, and make no sound, and let no word go out of your mouth till the day when I say, Give a loud cry; then give a loud cry.

¹⁶ And the seventh time, at the sound of the priests' horns, Joshua said to the people, Now give a loud cry; for the Lord has given you the town.

⁵ And they gave that place the name of Bochim, and made offerings there to the Lord.

¹ Then all the children of Israel took up arms, and the people came together like one man, from Dan to Beer-sheba, and the land of Gilead, before the Lord at Mizpah.

⁵ And when the ark of the Lord's agreement came into the tent-circle, all Israel gave a great cry, so that the earth was sounding with it.

¹⁸ Then the king said to Doeg, You are to put the priests to death. And Doeg the Edomite, turning on the priests and attacking them, put to death that day eighty-five men who took up the ephod.

⁴⁰ And all the people came up after him, piping with pipes, and they were glad with great joy, so that the earth was shaking with the sound.

⁴⁵ And Zadok the priest and Nathan the prophet put the holy oil on him and made him king in Gihon; and they came back from there with joy, and the town was all worked up. This is the noise which has come to your ears.

⁶ So now, will you have cedar-trees from Lebanon cut down for me, and my servants will be with your servants; and I will give you payment for your servants at whatever rate you say; for it is common knowledge that we have no such wood-cutters among us as the men of Zidon.

⁹ My men will take them down from Lebanon to the sea, where I will have them corded together to go by sea to whatever place you say, and I will have them cut up there so that you may take them away; as for payment, it will be enough if you give me food for my people. ¹⁰ So Hiram gave Solomon all the cedar-wood and cypress-wood he had need of; ¹¹ And Solomon gave Hiram twenty thousand measures of grain, as food for his people, and twenty measures of clear oil; this he did every year.

¹¹ And the money which was measured out they gave regularly to those who were responsible for overseeing the work, and these gave it in payment to the woodworkers and the builders who were working on the house of the Lord, ¹² And to the wall-builders and the stone-cutters, and to get wood and cut stone for building up the broken parts of the house of the Lord, and for everything needed to put the house in good order.

⁵ And let it be given to the overseers of the work of the Lord's house, to give to the workmen who are making good what was damaged in the house of the Lord; ⁶ To the woodworkers and the builders and the stone-cutters; and for getting wood and cut stones for the building up of the house.

¹⁷ And the sons of Jeconiah, who was taken prisoner: Shealtiel his son,

¹⁹ And the sons of Pedaiah: Zerubbabel and Shimei; and the sons of Zerubbabel: Meshullam and Hananiah; and Shelomith was their sister;

³¹ And these are those whom David made responsible for the music in the house of the Lord, after the ark had rest. ³² They gave worship with songs before the House of the Tent of meeting, till Solomon put up the house of the Lord in Jerusalem; and they took their places for their work in their regular order. ³³ And these are those who did this work, and their sons. Of the sons of the Kohathites: Heman, who made melody, the son of Joel, the son of Samuel, ³⁴ The son of Elkanah, the son of Jeroham, the son of Eliel, the son of Toah, ³⁵ The son of Zuph, the son of Elkanah, the son of Mahath, the son of Amasai, ³⁶ The son of Elkanah, the son of Joel, the son of Azariah, the son of Zephaniah, ³⁷ The son of Tahath, the son of Assir, the son of Ebiasaph, the son of Korah, ³⁸ The son of Izhar, the son of Kohath, the son of Levi, the son of Israel. ³⁹ And his brother Asaph, whose place was at his right hand, Asaph, the son of Berechiah, the son of Shimea, ⁴⁰ The son of Michael, the son of Baaseiah, the son of Malchijah, ⁴¹ The son of Ethni, the son of Zerah, the son of Adaiah, ⁴² The son of Ethan, the son of Zimmah, the son of Shimei, ⁴³ The son of Jahath, the son of Gershom, the son of Levi. ⁴⁴ And on the left their brothers, the sons of Merari: Ethan, the son of Kishi, the son of Abdi, the son of Malluch, ⁴⁵ The son of Hashabiah, the son of Amaziah, the son of Hilkiah, ⁴⁶ The son of Amzi, the son of Bani, the son of Shemer, ⁴⁷ The son of Mahli, the son of Mushi, the son of Merari, the son of Levi. ⁴⁸ And their brothers the Levites were responsible for all the work of the Tent of the house of God.

²⁴ And Shebaniah and Joshaphat and Nethanel and Amasai and Zechariah and Benaiah and Eliezer, the priests, made music on the horns before the ark of God; and Obed-edom and Jehiah were door-keepers for the ark.

²⁷ And David was clothed with a robe of fair linen, as were all the Levites who took up the ark, and those who made melody, and Chenaniah the master of those who made melody; and David had on a linen ephod;

⁴ And he put some of the Levites before the ark of the Lord as servants, to keep the acts of the Lord in memory, and to give worship and praise to the Lord, the God of Israel: ⁵ Asaph the chief, and second to him Zechariah, Uzziel and Shemiramoth and Jehiel and Mattithiah and Eliab and Benaiah and Obed-edom and Jeiel, with corded instruments of music; and Asaph, with brass instruments sounding loudly; ⁶ And Benaiah and Jahaziel the priests, blowing horns all the time before the ark of the agreement of God. ⁷ Then on that day David first made the giving of praise to the Lord the work of Asaph and his brothers.

³⁴ O give praise to the Lord, for he is good: for his mercy is unchanging for ever.

³⁷ So he made Asaph and his brothers keep their places there before the ark of the agreement of the Lord, to do whatever had to be done before the ark at all times day by day:

⁴¹ And with them Heman and Jeduthun, and the rest who were marked out by name to give praise to the Lord, for his mercy is unchanging for ever; ⁴² And Heman and Jeduthun had horns and brass instruments sounding loudly, and instruments of music for the songs of God; and the sons of Jeduthun were to be at the door.

⁴ Of these, twenty-four thousand were to be overseers of the work of the house of the Lord, and six thousand were judges and men of authority; ⁵ Four thousand were door-keepers; and four thousand gave praise to the Lord with the instruments which I made, said David, for giving praise.

²⁴ These were the sons of Levi, grouped by families, the heads of the families of those who were numbered by name, by heads, all those of twenty years old and over who did the work of the house of the Lord. ²⁵ For David said, The Lord, the God of Israel, has given his people rest, and he has made his resting-place in Jerusalem for ever; ²⁶ And from now, there will be no need for the House of the Lord, and the vessels used in it, to be moved about by the Levites. ²⁷ So among the last acts of David was the numbering of the sons of Levi, from twenty years old and over. ²⁸ Their place was by the side of the sons of Aaron in all the work of the house of the Lord, in the open spaces and in the rooms, in the making clean of all the holy things, in doing all the work of the house of the Lord, ²⁹ The holy bread was in their care, and the crushed grain for the meal offering, of unleavened cakes or meal cooked over the fire or in water; they had control of all sorts of weights and measures; ³⁰ They had to take their places every morning to give praise and make melody to the Lord, and in the same way at evening; ³¹ At every offering of burned offerings to the Lord, on Sabbaths, and at the new moons, and on the regular feasts, in the number ordered by the law, at all times before the Lord; ³² And they had the care of the Tent of meeting and the holy place, under the direction of the sons of Aaron their brothers, for the work of the house of the Lord.

¹ Further, David and the chiefs of the servants of the holy place made selection of certain of the sons of Asaph and of Heman and of Jeduthun for the work of prophets, to make melody with corded instruments and brass; and the number of the men for the work they had to do was: ² Of the sons of Asaph: Zaccur and Joseph and Nethaniah and Asharelah, sons of Asaph; under the direction of Asaph, acting as a prophet under the orders of the king; ³ Of Jeduthun: the six sons of Jeduthun, Gedaliah and Zeri and Jeshaiah, Hashabiah and Mattithiah; under the direction of their father Jeduthun who, acting as a prophet, with corded instruments gave praise and glory to the Lord. ⁴ Of Heman, the sons of Heman: Bukkiah, Mattaniah, Uzziel, Shebuel and Jerimoth, Hananiah, Hanani, Eliathah, Giddalti and Romamti-ezer, Joshbekashah, Mallothi, Hothir, Mahazioth; ⁵ All these were sons of Heman, the king's seer in the words of God. And to make great his power God gave Heman fourteen sons and three daughters. ⁶ All these, under the direction of their father, made music in the house of the Lord, with brass and corded instruments, for the worship of the house of God; Asaph, Jeduthun, and Heman being under the orders of the king. ⁷ And the number of them, with their brothers who were trained and expert in making melody to the Lord, was two hundred and eighty-eight.

¹⁰ And I will give as food to your servants, the wood-cutters, twenty thousand measures of grain, and twenty thousand measures of barley and twenty thousand measures of wine and twenty thousand measures of oil. ¹¹ Then Huram, king of Tyre, sent Solomon an answer in writing, saying, Because of his love for his people the Lord has made you king over them. ¹² And Huram said, Praise be to the Lord, the God of Israel, maker of heaven and earth, who has given to David the king a wise son, full of wisdom and good sense, to be the builder of a house for the Lord and a house for himself as king. ¹³ And now I am sending you a wise and expert man, Huram who is as my father, ¹⁴ The son of a woman of the daughters of Dan, whose father was a man of Tyre, an expert worker in gold and silver and brass and iron, in stone and wood, in purple and blue and fair linen and red, trained in the cutting of every sort of ornament and the invention of every sort of design; let him be given a place among your expert workmen and those of my lord, your father David. ¹⁵ So now let my lord send to his servants the grain and the oil and the wine as my lord has said; ¹⁶ And we will have wood cut from Lebanon, as much as you have need of, and will send it to you on flat boats by sea to Joppa, and from there you may take it up to Jerusalem.

¹ Then he made a brass altar, twenty cubits long, twenty cubits wide and ten cubits high.

⁶ But now I have made selection of Jerusalem, that my name might be there, and of David, to be over my people Israel.

³ And all the children of Israel were looking on when the fire came down, and the glory of the Lord was on the house; and they went down on their knees, with their faces to the earth, worshipping and praising the Lord, and saying, He is good; for his mercy is unchanging for ever.

¹² Then the king and Jehoiada gave it to those who were responsible for getting the work done on the Lord's house, and with it they got wall-builders and woodworkers and metal-workers to put the house of the Lord in good order again. ¹³ So the workmen did their work, making good what was damaged and building up the house of God till it was strong and beautiful again.

²⁵ Then he put the Levites in their places in the house of the Lord, with brass and corded instruments of music as ordered by David and Gad, the king's seer, and Nathan the prophet: for the order was the Lord's, given by his prophets. ²⁶ So the Levites took their places with David's instruments, and the priests with their horns.

³¹ Then Hezekiah made answer and said, Now that you have given yourselves to the Lord, come near and take offerings and praise-offerings into the house of the Lord. So all the people took in offerings and praise-offerings: and those whose hearts were moved, took in burned offerings. ³² The number of burned offerings which the people took in was seventy oxen, a hundred male sheep, and two hundred lambs: all these were for burned offerings to the Lord.

¹⁵ And the sons of Asaph, the makers of melody, were in their places, as ordered by David and Asaph and Heman and Jeduthun, the king's seer; and the door-keepers were stationed at every door: there was no need for them to go away from their places, for their brothers the Levites made ready for them.

² These are the words of Cyrus, king of Persia: The Lord God of heaven has given me all the kingdoms of the earth; and he has made me responsible for building a house for him in Jerusalem, which is in Judah. ³ Whoever there is among you of his people, may his God be with him, and let him go up to Jerusalem, which is in Judah, and take in hand the building of the house of the Lord, the God of Israel; he is the God who is in Jerusalem. ⁴ And whoever there may be of the rest of Israel, living in any place, let the men of that place give him help with offerings of silver and gold and goods and beasts, in addition to the offering freely given for the house of God in Jerusalem.

² Who went with Zerubbabel, Jeshua, Nehemiah, Seraiah, Reelaiah, Mordecai, Bilshan, Mispar, Bigvai, Rehum, Baanah, The number of the men of the people of Israel:

⁴⁰ The Levites: the children of Jeshua and Kadmiel, of the children of Hodaviah, seventy-four.

⁸ Now in the second year of their coming into the house of God in Jerusalem, in the second month, the work was taken in hand by 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 from the land where they were prisoners to Jerusalem: and they made the Levites, of twenty years old and over, responsible for overseeing the work of the house of the Lord.

³ But Zerubbabel and Jeshua and the rest of the heads of families in Israel said to them, You have no part with us in the building of a house for our God; we ourselves will do the work together for the Lord, the God of Israel, as Cyrus, king of Persia, has given us orders. ⁴ Then the people of the land made the hands of the people of Judah feeble, troubling them with fear in their building;

¹¹ This is a copy of the letter which they sent to Artaxerxes the king: Your servants living across the river send these words: ¹² We give news to the king that the Jews who came from you have come to us at Jerusalem; they are building up again that uncontrolled and evil town; the walls are complete and they are joining up the bases. ¹³ The king may be certain that when the building of this town and its walls is complete, they will give no tax or payment in goods or forced payments, and in the end it will be a cause of loss to the kings. ¹⁴ Now because we are responsible to the king, and it is not right for us to see the king's honour damaged, we have sent to give the king word of these things, ¹⁵ So that search may be made in the book of the records of your fathers: and you will see in the book of the records that this town has been uncontrolled, and a cause of trouble to kings and countries, and that there were outbursts against authority there in the past: for which reason the town was made waste. ¹⁶ We give you word, that if the building of this town and its walls is made complete, there will be an end of your power in the country across the river.

³ In the first year of Cyrus the king, Cyrus the king made an order: In connection with the house of God at Jerusalem, let the house be put up, the place where they make offerings, and let the earth for the bases be put in place; let it be sixty cubits high and sixty cubits wide; ⁴ With three lines of great stones and one line of new wood supports; and let the necessary money be given out of the king's store-house; ⁵ And let the gold and silver vessels from the house of God, which Nebuchadnezzar took from the Temple at Jerusalem to Babylon, be given back and taken again to the Temple at Jerusalem, every one in its place, and put them in the house of God.

²¹ Then I gave orders for a time of going without food, there by the river Ahava, so that we might make ourselves low before our God in prayer, requesting from him a straight way for us and for our little ones and for all our substance. ²² For I would not, for shame, make request to the king for a band of armed men and horsemen to give us help against those who might make attacks on us on the way: for we had said to the king, The hand of our God is on his servants for good, but his power and his wrath are against all those who are turned away from him.

⁴³ The Levites: the children of Jeshua, of Kadmiel, of the children of Hodevah, seventy-four.

⁷³ So the priests and the Levites and the door-keepers and the music-makers and some of the people and the Nethinim, and all Israel, were living in their towns.

¹⁴ And they saw that it was recorded in the law that the Lord had given orders by Moses, that the children of Israel were to have tents for their living-places in the feast of the seventh month:

¹⁴ And they saw that it was recorded in the law that the Lord had given orders by Moses, that the children of Israel were to have tents for their living-places in the feast of the seventh month: ¹⁵ And that they were to give out an order, and make it public in all their towns and in Jerusalem, saying, Go out to the mountain and get olive branches and branches of field olives and of myrtle, and palm branches and branches of thick trees, to make tents, as it says in the book. ¹⁶ And the people went out and got them and made themselves tents, every one on the roof of his house, and in the open spaces and in the open squares of the house of God, and in the wide place of the water-doorway, and the wide place of the doorway of Ephraim. ¹⁷ All the people who had been prisoners and had come back, made tents and were living in them: for from the time of Jeshua, the son of Nun, till that day, the children of Israel had not done so. And there was very great joy.

¹ Now these are the priests and the Levites who went up with Zerubbabel, the son of Shealtiel, and Jeshua: Seraiah, Jeremiah, Ezra,

⁸ And the Levites: Jeshua, Binnui, Kadmiel, Sherebiah, Judah, and Mattaniah, who was over the music-makers, he and his brothers.

²⁴ And the chiefs of the Levites: Hashabiah, Sherebiah, and Jeshua, the son of Kadmiel, with their brothers opposite them, to give blessing and praise as ordered by David, the man of God, watch against watch.

²⁴ And the chiefs of the Levites: Hashabiah, Sherebiah, and Jeshua, the son of Kadmiel, with their brothers opposite them, to give blessing and praise as ordered by David, the man of God, watch against watch. ²⁵ Mattaniah, and Bakbukiah, Obadiah, Meshullam, Talmon, Akkub, were door-keepers keeping the watch at the store-houses of the doors. ²⁶ These were in the days of Joiakim, the son of Jeshua, the son of Jozadak, and in the days of Nehemiah the ruler and of Ezra the priest, the scribe.

⁴⁰ So the two bands of those who gave praise took up their positions in the house of God, and I and half of the chiefs with me:

⁴³ And on that day they made great offerings and were glad; for God had made them glad with great joy; and the women and the children were glad with them: so that the joy of Jerusalem came to the ears of those who were far off.

⁷ And though your start was small, your end will be very great.

¹¹ But let all those who put their faith in you be glad with cries of joy at all times, and let all the lovers of your name be glad in you.

⁷ Let your heads be lifted up, O doors; be lifted up, O you eternal doors: that the King of glory may come in. ⁸ Who is the King of glory? The Lord of strength and power, the Lord strong in war. ⁹ Let your heads be lifted up, O doors; let them be lifted up, O you eternal doors: that the King of glory may come in. ¹⁰ Who is the King of glory? The Lord of armies, he is the King of glory. Selah.

¹ Of David. The Lord is my light and my salvation; who is then a cause of fear to me? the Lord is the strength of my life; who is a danger to me? ² When evil-doers, even my haters, came on me to put an end to me, they were broken and put to shame.

¹ To the chief music-maker. A Psalm. Of the sons of Korah. O make a glad noise with your hands, all you peoples; letting your voices go up to God with joy.

⁵ God has gone up with a glad cry, the Lord with the sound of the horn.

² My haters are ever ready to put an end to me; great numbers are lifting themselves up against me. ³ In the time of my fear, I will have faith in you. ⁴ In God will I give praise to his word; in God have I put my hope; I will have no fear of what flesh may do to me.

⁶⁸ But he took the tribe of Judah for himself, and the mountain of Zion, in which he had pleasure.

¹ A Psalm of Praise. Make a glad sound to the Lord, all the earth. ² Give worship to the Lord with joy; come before him with a song.

¹³ You will again get up and have mercy on Zion: for the time has come for her to be comforted. ¹⁴ For your servants take pleasure in her stones, looking with love on her dust.

¹⁷ But the mercy of the Lord is eternal for his worshippers, and their children's children will see his righteousness;

¹ Let the Lord be praised. O give praise to the Lord, for he is good: for his mercy is unchanging for ever.

¹ O give praise to the Lord, for he is good: for his mercy is unchanging for ever.

¹ O give praise to the Lord, for he is good: for his mercy is unchanging for ever.

⁶ Though a man may go out weeping, taking his vessel of seed with him; he will come again in joy, with the corded stems of grain in his arms.

³ Give praise to Jah, for he is good: make melody to his name, for it is pleasing.

¹ O give praise to the Lord, for he is good: for his mercy is unchanging for ever. ² O give praise to the God of gods: for his mercy is unchanging for ever. ³ O give praise to the Lord of lords: for his mercy is unchanging for ever. ⁴ To him who only does great wonders: for his mercy is unchanging for ever. ⁵ To him who by wisdom made the heavens: for his mercy is unchanging for ever. ⁶ To him by whom the earth was stretched out over the waters: for his mercy is unchanging for ever. ⁷ To him who made great lights: for his mercy is unchanging for ever. ⁸ The sun to have rule by day: for his mercy is unchanging for ever. ⁹ The moon and the stars to have rule by night: for his mercy is unchanging for ever. ¹⁰ To him who put to death the first-fruits of Egypt: for his mercy is unchanging for ever: ¹¹ And took out Israel from among them: for his mercy is unchanging for ever: ¹² With a strong hand and an outstretched arm: for his mercy is unchanging for ever. ¹³ To him who made a way through the Red Sea: for his mercy is unchanging for ever: ¹⁴ And let Israel go through it: for his mercy is unchanging for ever: ¹⁵ By him Pharaoh and his army were overturned in the Red Sea: for his mercy is unchanging for ever. ¹⁶ To him who took his people through the waste land: for his mercy is unchanging for ever. ¹⁷ To him who overcame great kings: for his mercy is unchanging for ever: ¹⁸ And put noble kings to death: for his mercy is unchanging for ever: ¹⁹ Sihon, king of the Amorites: for his mercy is unchanging for ever: ²⁰ And Og, king of Bashan: for his mercy is unchanging for ever: ²¹ And gave their land to his people for a heritage: for his mercy is unchanging for ever. ²² Even a heritage for his servant Israel: for his mercy is unchanging for ever. ²³ Who kept us in mind when we were in trouble: for his mercy is unchanging for ever. ²⁴ And has taken us out of the hands of our haters: for his mercy is unchanging for ever. ²⁵ Who gives food to all flesh: for his mercy is unchanging for ever. ²⁶ O give praise to the God of heaven: for his mercy is unchanging for ever.

¹ A Song of praise. Of David. Let me give glory to you, O God, my King; and blessing to your name for ever and ever. ² Every day will I give you blessing, praising your name for ever and ever. ³ Great is the Lord, and greatly to be praised; his power may never be searched out. ⁴ One generation after another will give praise to your great acts, and make clear the operation of your strength. ⁵ My thoughts will be of the honour and glory of your rule, and of the wonder of your works. ⁶ Men will be talking of the power and fear of your acts; I will give word of your glory. ⁷ Their sayings will be full of the memory of all your mercy, and they will make songs of your righteousness. ⁸ The Lord is full of grace and pity; not quickly angry, but great in mercy. ⁹ The Lord is good to all men; and his mercies are over all his works. ¹⁰ All the works of your hands give praise to you, O Lord; and your saints give you blessing. ¹¹ Their words will be of the glory of your kingdom, and their talk of your strength;

³ And one said in a loud voice to another, Holy, holy, holy, is the Lord of armies: all the earth is full of his glory.

⁶ Let your voice be sounding in a cry of joy, O daughter of Zion, for great is the Holy One of Israel among you.

¹⁴ Have no fear, you worm Jacob, and you men of Israel; I will be your helper, says the Lord, even he who takes up your cause, the Holy One of Israel.

²³ Make a song, O heavens, for the Lord has done it: give a loud cry, you deep parts of the earth: let your voices be loud in song, you mountains, and you woods with all your trees: for the Lord has taken up the cause of Jacob, and will let his glory be seen in Israel.

²² The smallest of their families will become a thousand, and a small one a strong nation: I, the Lord, will make it come quickly in its time.

⁸ See, I will take them from the north country, and get them from the inmost parts of the earth, and with them the blind and the feeble-footed, the woman with child and her who is in birth-pains together: a very great army, they will come back here. ⁹ They will come with weeping, and going before them I will be their guide: guiding them by streams of water in a straight way where there is no falling: for I am a father to Israel, and Ephraim is the first of my sons.

¹¹ Happy sounds, the voice of joy, the voice of the newly-married man and the voice of the bride, the voices of those who say, Give praise to the Lord of armies, for the Lord is good, for his mercy is unchanging for ever: the voices of those who go with praise into the house of the Lord. For I will let the land come back to its first condition, says the Lord.

³⁴ And for his food, the king gave him a regular amount every day till the day of his death, for the rest of his life.

¹⁷ Judah and the land of Israel were your traders; they gave grain of Minnith and sweet cakes and honey and oil and perfume for your goods.

³⁴ While you were looking at it, a stone was cut out, but not by hands, and it gave the image a blow on its feet, which were of iron and earth, and they were broken in bits. ³⁵ Then the iron and the earth, the brass and the silver and the gold, were smashed together, and became like the dust on the floors where grain is crushed in summer; and the wind took them away so that no sign of them was to be seen: and the stone which gave the image a blow became a great mountain, covering all the earth.

³ And Jonah got up to go in flight to Tarshish, away from the Lord; and he went down to Joppa, and saw there a ship going to Tarshish: so he gave them the price of the journey and went down into it to go with them to Tarshish, away from the Lord.

⁹ For then I will give the people a clean language, so that they may all make prayer to the Lord and be his servants with one mind.

¹ In the second year of Darius the king, in the sixth month, on the first day of the month, came the word of the Lord by Haggai the prophet to Zerubbabel, the son of Shealtiel, ruler of Judah, and to Joshua, the son of Jehozadak, the high priest, saying,

¹² Then Zerubbabel, the son of Shealtiel, and Joshua, the son of Jehozadak, the high priest, and all the rest of the people, gave ear to the voice of the Lord their God and to the words of Haggai the prophet, because the Lord their God had sent him, and the people were in fear before the Lord.

¹⁴ And the spirit of Zerubbabel, the son of Shealtiel, ruler of Judah, was moved by the Lord, as was the spirit of Joshua, the son of Jehozadak, the high priest, and the spirit of all the rest of the people; and they came and did work in the house of the Lord of armies, their God.

² Say now to Zerubbabel, the son of Shealtiel, ruler of Judah, and to Joshua, the son of Jehozadak, the high priest, and to the rest of the people, ³ Who is there still among you who saw this house in its first glory? and how do you see it now? is it not in your eyes as nothing?

³ Who is there still among you who saw this house in its first glory? and how do you see it now? is it not in your eyes as nothing? ⁴ But now be strong, O Zerubbabel, says the Lord; and be strong, O Joshua, son of Jehozadak, the high priest; and be strong, all you people of the land, says the Lord, and get to work: for I am with you, says the Lord of armies:

²¹ Say to Zerubbabel, ruler of Judah, I will make a shaking of the heavens and the earth,

²³ In that day, says the Lord of armies, I will take you, O Zerubbabel, my servant, the son of Shealtiel, says the Lord, and will make you as a jewelled ring: for I have taken you to be mine, says the Lord of armies.

¹ And he let me see Joshua, the high priest, in his place before the angel of the Lord, and the Satan at his right hand ready to take up a cause against him.

⁸ Give ear now, O Joshua, the high priest, you and your friends who are seated before you; for these are men who are a sign: for see, I will let my servant the Branch be seen.

⁶ This is the word of the Lord to Zerubbabel, saying, Not by force or by power, but by my spirit, says the Lord of armies. ⁷ Who are you, O great mountain? before Zerubbabel you will become level: and he will let all see the headstone, with cries of Grace, grace, to it.

⁷ Who are you, O great mountain? before Zerubbabel you will become level: and he will let all see the headstone, with cries of Grace, grace, to it. ⁸ Then the word of the Lord came to me, saying, ⁹ The hands of Zerubbabel have put the base of this house in place, and his hands will make it complete; and it will be clear to you that the Lord of armies has sent me to you. ¹⁰ For who has had a poor opinion of the day of small things? for they will be glad when they see the weighted measuring-line in the hand of Zerubbabel. Then he said in answer to me, These seven lights are the eyes of the Lord which go quickly up and down through all the earth.

¹⁰ For who has had a poor opinion of the day of small things? for they will be glad when they see the weighted measuring-line in the hand of Zerubbabel. Then he said in answer to me, These seven lights are the eyes of the Lord which go quickly up and down through all the earth.

¹¹ And take silver and gold and make a crown and put it on the head of Zerubbabel;

⁹ Be full of joy, O daughter of Zion; give a glad cry, O daughter of Jerusalem: see, your king comes to you: he is upright and has overcome; gentle and seated on an ass, on a young ass.

¹⁶ And it will come about that everyone who is still living, of all those nations who came against Jerusalem, will go up from year to year to give worship to the King, the Lord of armies, and to keep the feast of tents. ¹⁷ And it will be that if any one of all the families of the earth does not go up to Jerusalem to give worship to the King, the Lord of armies, on them there will be no rain. ¹⁸ And if the family of Egypt does not go up or come there, they will be attacked by the disease which the Lord will send on the nations: ¹⁹ This will be the punishment of Egypt, and the punishment of all the nations who do not go up to keep the feast of tents.

¹² And after the taking away to Babylon, Jechoniah had a son Shealtiel; and Shealtiel had Zerubbabel; ¹³ And Zerubbabel had Abiud; and Abiud had Eliakim; and Eliakim had Azor;

³¹ He put another story before them, saying, The kingdom of heaven is like a grain of mustard seed which a man took and put in his field: ³² Which is smaller than all seeds; but when it has come up it is greater than the plants, and becomes a tree, so that the birds of heaven come and make their resting-places in its branches.

⁵⁰ His mercy is for all generations in whom is the fear of him.

²⁷ The son of Joanan, the son of Rhesa, the son of Zerubbabel, the son of Shealtiel, the son of Neri,

³⁷ And when he came near the foot of the Mountain of Olives, all the disciples with loud voices gave praise to God with joy, because of all the great works which they had seen; ³⁸ Saying, A blessing on the King who comes in the name of the Lord; peace in heaven and glory in the highest. ³⁹ And some of the Pharisees among the people said to him, Master, make your disciples be quiet. ⁴⁰ And he said in answer, I say to you, if these men keep quiet, the very stones will be crying out.

² But the feast of the Jews, the feast of tents, was near.

³⁷ On the last day, the great day of the feast, Jesus got up and said in a loud voice, If any man is in need of drink let him come to me and I will give it to him.

⁴⁶ And day by day, going in agreement together regularly to the Temple and, taking broken bread together in their houses, they took their food with joy and with true hearts,

³² And all those who were of the faith were one in heart and soul: and not one of them said that any of the things which he had was his property only; but they had all things in common.

³⁶ Now there was at Joppa a certain disciple named Tabitha, that is, Dorcas: this woman was given to good works and acts of mercy at all times.

⁵ Now send men to Joppa, and get one Simon, named Peter, ⁶ Who is living with Simon, a leather-worker, whose house is by the sea.

²⁰ Now he was very angry with the people of Tyre and Sidon: and they came to him, all together, and having made friends with Blastus, the controller of the king's house, they made a request for peace, because their country was dependent on the king's country for its food.

¹⁰ Now I make request to you, my brothers, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that you will all say the same thing, and that there may be no divisions among you, so that you may be in complete agreement, in the same mind and in the same opinion.

¹⁰ And he took me away in the Spirit to a great and high mountain, and let me see the holy town Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, ¹¹ Having the glory of God: and her light was like a stone of great price, a jasper stone, clear as glass: ¹² She had a wall great and high, with twelve doors, and at the doors twelve angels; and names on them, which are the names of the twelve tribes of the children of Israel. ¹³ And on the east were three doors; and on the north three doors; and on the south three doors; and on the west three doors. ¹⁴ And the wall of the town had twelve bases, and on them the twelve names of the twelve Apostles of the Lamb.