Ezra 3:8-10
EasyEnglish Bible
8 The Israelites began to build the Lord's temple two years after they arrived in Jerusalem. In the second month of the year, Shealtiel's son, Zerubbabel, and Jozadak's son, Jeshua, began the work. All the priests and the Levites who worked with them in Jerusalem joined them. All the people who had returned to Jerusalem from Babylon helped in the work. The leaders chose Levites who were 20 years old, or older, to have authority over the work.
9 These are their names:
Jeshua, his sons and his brothers.
Kadmiel and his sons. (They were descendants of Hodaviah.)
Henadad's sons, with their sons and brothers, who were Levites.
10 The men who were building the Lord's temple finished the foundations. Then the priests put on their special clothes. They made a noise with their trumpets. The Levites (sons of Asaph) made a noise with their cymbals.[a] They all stood to praise the Lord, in the way that Israel's King David had told them many years before.
Read full chapterFootnotes
- 3:10 Cymbals and trumpets are musical instruments.
EasyEnglish Bible Copyright © MissionAssist 2019 - Charitable Incorporated Organisation 1162807. Used by permission. All rights reserved.