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Worship Restored at Jerusalem

¹And when the ⚓seventh month had come, and the children of Israel were in the cities, the people gathered together as one man to Jerusalem. ²Then Jeshua the son of ⚓Jozadak and his brethren the priests, ⚓and Zerubbabel the son of ⚓Shealtiel and his brethren, arose and built the altar of the God of Israel, to offer burnt offerings on it, as it is⚓written in the Law of Moses the man of God. ³Though fear had come upon them because of the people of those countries, they set the altar on its bases; and they offered ⚓burnt offerings on it to the Lord, both the morning and evening burnt offerings. ⁴⚓They also kept the Feast of Tabernacles, ⚓as it is written, and ⚓offered the daily burnt offerings in the number required by ordinance for each day. ⁵Afterwards they offered the ⚓regular burnt offering, and those for New Moons and for all the appointed feasts of the Lord that were consecrated, and those of everyone who willingly offered a freewill offering to the Lord. ⁶From the first day of the seventh month they began to offer burnt offerings to the Lord, although the foundation of the temple of the Lord had not been laid. ⁷They also gave money to the masons and the carpenters, and ⚓food, drink, and oil to the people of Sidon and Tyre to bring cedar logs from Lebanon to the sea, to ⚓Joppa, ⚓according to the permission which they had from Cyrus king of Persia.

Restoration of the Temple Begins

⁸Now in the second month of the second year of their coming to the house of God at Jerusalem, ⚓Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, Jeshua the son of Jozadak, and the rest of their brethren the priests and the Levites, and all those who had come out of the captivity to Jerusalem, began work⚓and appointed the Levites from twenty years old and above to oversee the work of the house of the Lord. ⁹Then Jeshua with his sons and brothers, Kadmiel with his sons, and the sons of Judah, arose as one to oversee those working on the house of God: the sons of Henadad with their sons and their brethren the Levites.
¹⁰When the builders laid the foundation of the temple of the Lord, ⚓the priests stood in their apparel with trumpets, and the Levites, the sons of Asaph, with cymbals, to praise the Lord, according to the ⚓ordinance of David king of Israel. ¹¹⚓And they sang responsively, praising and giving thanks to the Lord:
⚓“For He is good,
⚓For His mercy endures forever toward Israel.”
Then all the people shouted with a great shout, when they praised the Lord, because the foundation of the house of the Lord was laid.
¹²But many of the priests and Levites and ⚓heads of the fathers’ houses, old men who had seen the first temple, wept with a loud voice when the foundation of this temple was laid before their eyes. Yet many shouted aloud for joy, 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 sound was heard afar off.

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Rov Pehawm Vajtswv Dua

¹Thaum txog lub xya hli ntuj cov neeg Yixalayees rov los nyob tagnrho rau hauv lawv tej nroog. Ces lawv txawm tuaj sib sau rau hauv lub nroog Yeluxalees, ²Yauxadas tus tub Yesuas thiab nws cov phoojywg povthawj thiab Se-atees tus tub Xelunpanpees nrog nws cov kwvtij thiaj tau los txhim kho cov Yixalayees tus Vajtswv lub thaj dua tshiab kom lawv thiaj tau lub chaw hlawv tej khoom fij rau saud raws li tej kevcai uas Mauxes tus uas yog Vajtswv tus neeg tau sau tseg cia lawm. ³Txawm yog cov uas rov qab los ntawd ntshai cov neeg uas ib txwm nyob hauv lub tebchaws ntawd los lawv cia li ua dua ib lub thaj tshiab rau ntawm qhov qub chaw thaum ub. Ces lawv txawm niaj tagkis thiab niaj hmo pib muab khoom mus hlawv fij pub rau tus TSWV saum lub thaj ntawd. ⁴Lawv ua kevcai nyob tsev pheebsuab raws li txoj kevcai uas twb muaj los lawm. Txhua hnub lawv yeej muab khoom fij raws li uas tau teev muaj tseg rau hnub ntawd, ⁵thiab dua li ntawd ntxiv, lawv tseem tua tsiaj coj mus hlawv kheej ua khoom fij li ibtxwm muaj los thiab tej tsiaj uas coj mus fij ua rooj noj rooj haus rau hnub xiab ib thiab rau thaum uas tagnrho sawvdaws tuaj sib sau pehawm tus TSWV uas yog zoo siab hlo muab khoom fij pub rau tus TSWV. ⁶Txawm yog lawv tseem tsis tau pib txhim kho lub Tuamtsev dua tshiab los lawv cia li coj khoom tuaj fij rau tus TSWV thaum lub xya hli ntuj hnub xiab ib li lawm.

Rov Txhim Kho Lub Tuamtsev Dua Tshiab

⁷Cov neeg muab nyiaj tuaj them rau cov neeg txaug pobzeb, txua ntoo, thiab muab zaub mov, dej haus, thiab roj txiv ntoo xa mus rau pem lub nroog Tiles thiab Xidoos, coj mus pauv tej ntoo ciab pem tebchaws Lenpanoos, thiab muab nquam taug ntug dej hiavtxwv tuaj rau ntawm lub nroog Yaupas. Tagnrho tej no lawv tau ua raws li Huabtais Xailas uas kav tebchaws Pawxias hais kom tso kev rau lawv ua.
⁸Xyoo ob thaum lub ob hlis ntuj, tom qab uas lawv rov los txog rau hauv Vajtswv lub Tuamtsev hauv lub nroog Yeluxalees, Xelunpanpees uas yog Se-atiyees tus tub thiab Yesuas uas yog Yauxadas tus tub nrog nkawd cov kwvtij, cov povthawj, cov Levis thiab txhua tus uas raug luag ntes mus thiab tau rov qab los rau hauv lub nroog Yeluxalees thiaj sib pab nqis tes nroos pib ua haujlwm. Tagnrho cov Levis uas muaj hnubnyoog nees nkaum xyoo lossis tshaj ntawd puavleej raug tsa los ua cov saib tes haujlwm uas txhim kho lub Tuamtsev. ⁹Cov Levis ntawd yog Yesuas thiab nws cov tub thiab nws cov kwvtij, Kamiyees thiab nws cov tub (uas yog Haudaviyas cajces tsevneeg) tau koomtes sib pab txhim kho lub Tuamtsev. (Cov Levis uas yog cuab Henadas tuaj pab huv tibsi thiab.)
¹⁰Thaum cov neeg pib pua tus TSWV lub Tuamtsev lub plagtse, cov povthawj hnav lawv tej tsho ntev tuaj sawv ntawm lawv tej chaw tuav rawv xyu ntawm tes, thiab cov Levis uas yog cuab Axas los nqa rawv nruas npuaj tuaj sawv ntawd thiab. Lawv ua tus TSWV tsaug raws li tej uas Vajntxwv Daviv tau qhia tseg lawm. ¹¹Lawv hu zaj nkauj qhuas tus TSWV thiab rov hu ntxiv nqes tshooj hais li no:
“Tus TSWV yog tus zoo thiab nws txojkev hlub
rau cov Yixalayees muaj nyob mus ibtxhis li.”
Txhua leej txhua tus nyias qw kawg nyias lub zog ua tus TSWV tsaug, rau qhov twb pib pua tus TSWV lub Tuamtsev lub plagtse lawm. ¹²Thaum cov laus coob leej uas yog povthawj, cov Levis thiab cov thawjcoj ntawm txhua cuab kwvtij uas puavleej tau pom thawj lub Tuamtsev saib luag pua tus TSWV lub Tuamtsev lub plagtse, lawv quaj tu siab kawg. Tiamsis lwm tus uas nyob ntawd kuj luag thiab zoo siab heev. ¹³Tsis muaj leejtwg yuav mloog tau tseeb, xyov yog suab qw zoo siab los yog suab quaj tu siab, rau qhov tej suab uas lawv qw ntawd nrov ntxhe mus deb heev.