An altar is built for sacrifice, the feast of tabernacles is solemnly celebrated, and the foundations of the temple are laid.
An Altar is built for sacrifice, 4 The feast of Tabernacles solemnly celebrated 8. And in the second yeare (after their returne) the Temple is founded with great ioy of the people, and mourning of some.
1And now the seventh month was come, and the children of Israel were in their cities: and the people gathered themselves together as one man to Jerusalem.E già veniva il settimo mese, e i figliuoli d'Israele se ne stavano nelle loro città, quando si adunò tutto il popolo come un sol uomo a Gerusalemme.AND now the seuenth moneth was come, and the children of Israel were in their cities: the people therfore was gathered together as it were one man into Ierusalem.Jamque venerat mensis septimus, et erant filii Israël in civitatibus suis: congregatus est ergo populus quasi vir unus in Jerusalem. 2And Josue the son of Josedec rose up, and his brethren the priests, and Zorobabel the son of Salathiel, and his brethren, and they built the altar of the God of Israel that they might offer holocausts upon it, as it is written in the law of Moses the man of God.E Josuè figliuolo di Josedec, e i sacerdoti suoi fratelli, e Zorobabel figliuolo di Salathiel, co' suoi fratelli, intrapresero di erigere l'altare di Dio d'Israele per offerirvi gli olocausti, conforme sta scritto nella legge di Mosè uomo di Dio.And Iosue the sonne of Iosedec rose vp, and his brethren the Priestes, and Zorobabel the sonne of Salathiel, and his brethren, and they built the altar of the God of Israel, that they might offer on it holocaustes, as it is writen in the law of Moyses the man of God.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. 3And they set the altar of God upon its bases, while the people of the lands round about put them in fear, and they offered upon it a holocaust to the Lord morning and evening.E posarono l'altare di Dio sulla sua base, benché ne li distogliessero i popoli de' paesi circonvicini: e sopra di questo altare offersero olocausto al Signore mattina, e sera.And they placed the altar of God vpon his feete, the people of the lands round about putting them in feare, & they offered vpon it holocaust to our Lord morning and euening.Collocaverunt autem altare Dei super bases suas, deterrentibus eos per circuitum populis terrarum: et obtulerunt super illud holocaustum Domino mane et vespere. 4And they kept the feast of tabernacles, as it is written, and offered the holocaust every day orderly according to the commandment, the duty of the day in its day.E celebraron la solennità de' tabernacoli nella maniera prescritta, e offersero l'olocausto ogni dì, conforme era ordinato di fare giorno per giorno.And they made the solemnitie of tabernacles, as it is writen, and holocaust euery day by order according to the praecept, the worke of the day in his day.Feceruntque solemnitatem tabernaculorum, sicut scriptum est, et holocaustum diebus singulis per ordinem secundum præceptum opus diei in die suo.
5And afterwards the continual holocaust, both on the new moons, and on all the solemnities of the Lord, that were consecrated, and on all in which a freewill offering was made to the Lord.E dipoi l'olocausto perpetuo tanto nelle calende, come in tutte le solennità consagrate al Signore, e per chiunque spontaneamente offerisse dono al Signore.And after these thinges the continual holocaust, as wel in the Calendes, as in al the solemnities of our Lord, that were consecrated, and in al wherein there was offered voluntarily a gift to our Lord.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. 6From the first day of the seventh month they began to offer holocausts to the Lord: but the temple of God was not yet founded.Dal primo dì del settimo mese principiarono ad offerire olocausti al Signore: ma non erano ancor gettate le fondamenta del tempio di Dio.From the first day of the seuenth moneth they began to offer holocaust to our Lord: moreouer the temple of God was not yet founded.A primo die mensis septimi cœperunt offerre holocaustum Domino: porro templum Dei nondum fundatum erat. 7And they gave money to hewers of stones and to masons: and meat and drink, and oil to the Sidonians and Tyrians, to bring cedar trees from Libanus to the sea of Joppe, according to the orders which Cyrus king of the Persians had given them.E diedero del denaro ai lavoratori di pietra, e ai muratori: e da mangiare, e da bere, e dell'olio a quelli di Tiro, e di Sidone, affinchè portassero il legname di cedro dal Libano al mare di Joppe, secondo l'ordine dato loro da e Ciro re della Persia.And they gaue money to hewers of stones and to masons: meate also and drinke, and oyle to the Sidonians and Tyrians, that they should bring ceder trees from Libanus to the sea vnto Ioppe, according to that which Cyrus the king of the Persians had commanded them.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. 8And in the second year of their coming to the temple of God in Jerusalem, the second month, Zorobabel the son of Salathiel, and Josue the son of Josedec, and the rest of their brethren the priests, and the Levites, and all that were come from the captivity to Jerusalem began, and they appointed Levites from twenty years old and upward, to hasten forward the work of the Lord.L'anno secondo del loro arrivo al tempio di Dio in Gerusalemme, il secondo mese, Zorobabel figliuolo di Salathiel, e Josuè figliuolo di Josedech, e in gli altri loro fratelli sacerdoti, e Leviti, e tutti quelli, i quali dalla schiavitù eran tornati a Gerusalemme, risolverono di destinare i Leviti dai venti anni in su a sollecitare l'opera del Signore.And in the second yeare of their coming to the temple of God in Ierusalem, the second moneth, began Zorobabel the sonne of Salathiel, and Iosue the sonne of Iosedec, and the rest of their brethren the Priestes, and the Leuites, and al that were come from the captiuitie into Ierusalem, and they appoynted Leuites from twentie yeares and vpward, that they should hasten forward the worke of our Lord.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.
9Then Josue and his sons and his brethren, Cedmihel, and his sons, and the children of Juda, as one man, stood to hasten them that did the work in the temple of God: the sons of Henadad, and their sons, and their brethren the Levites.E Josuè, e i suoi figliuoli, e fratelli, Cedmihel, e i suoi figliuoli, e (tutti) i figliuoli di Giuda, come un sol uomo si stavano a stimolar quelli, che lavoravano al tempio di Dio: e (parimente) i figliuoli di Henadad, e i loro figliuoli, e fratelli Leviti.And Iosue stood and his sonnes, and his brethren, Cedmihel, and his sonnes, and the children of Iuda, as it were one man, that they might be instant vpon them, that did the worke in the temple of God: the sonnes of Henadad, and their sonnes, and their brethren Leuites.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. 10And when the masons laid the foundations of the temple of the Lord, the priests stood in their ornaments with trumpets: and the Levites the sons of Asaph with cymbals, to praise God by the hands of David king of Israel.Quando adunque i muratori ebber gettate le fondamenta del tempio del Signore, vennero i sacerdoti colle loro divise, e colle loro trombe: e i Leviti figliuoli di Asaph co' loro cimbali per cantar le lodi di Dio co' Salmi di David re d'Israele.The temple therfore of our Lord being founded by the masons, the Priestes stood in their attyro with trumpettes: and the Leuites the children of Asaph in cymbals, to prayse God by the handes of Dauid the king of IsraelFundato 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. 11And they sung together hymns, and praise to the Lord: because he is good, for his mercy endureth for ever towards Israel. And all the people shouted with a great shout, praising the Lord, because the foundations of the temple of the Lord were laid.E lodavano il Signore co' loro cantici, e confessavano com'egli è buono, e come eterna ell'è la sua misericordia verso Israele. E parimente tutto il popolo alzava voci sonore nel dar laude al Signore: perchè si erano gettate le fondamenta del tempio del Signore.And they sang together in hymnes, and confession to our Lord: Because he is good, because his mercie is for euer vpon Israel. Al the people also made a shoute with a lowde crie in praysing our Lord, because the temple of our Lord was founded.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. 12But many of the priests and the Levites, and the chief of the fathers and the ancients that had seen the former temple; when they had the foundation of this temple before their eyes, wept with a loud voice: and many shouting for joy, lifted up their voice.E moltissimi de' sacerdoti, e de' Leviti, e de' capi del popolo, e de' seniori, i quali avean veduto il primo tempio, allorché furono sotto gli occhi loro gettati i fondamenti di quest'altro tempio, gettavano grandi gemiti; e molti alzavano le loro voci gridando per allegrezza.Verie manie also of the Priestes and the Leuires, and the princes of the fathers, & the ancients, that had seene the former temple; when they saw this temple founded, they wept with a lowd voyce: and manie shouting in ioy, lifted vp their voyce.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.
13So that one could not distinguish the voice of the shout of joy, from the noise of the weeping of the people: for one with another the people shouted with a loud shout, and the voice was heard afar off.E non si potevan discernere i gridi di allegrezza dai clamori di quelli, che si affliggevano: perocché tutto il popolo confusamente gridava ad alta voce, e si udiva il rumore di lontano.Neither could anie man discerne the voice of the crie of them that reioyced, and the voice of the weeping of the people: for one with an other the people •howted with alowd crie, and the voice was heard far of.Nec poterat quisquam agnoscere vocem clamoris lætantium, et vocem fletus populi: commistim enim populus vociferabatur clamore magno, et vox audiebatur procul.
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Year of the World 3469, Year before Christ 535.
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Josue, or Jesus, (Jeshua) the son of Josedec: he was the high priest at that time; (Challoner) the first after the captivity.
Calmet
Salathiel, by whom he was brought up, though he was born of Phadaia, 1 Paralipomenon 3:19. (Calmet)
Protestants read Shealtiel.
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Worthington
Fear. This must not prevent God's servants from offering sacrifice. (Worthington)
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Meat, in imitation of Solomon, 3 Kings 5:11.
Calmet
Orders. Hebrew, "permission." (Calmet)
Haydock
Protestants, "grant." (Haydock)
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Year of the World 3469.
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Worthington
Hands; compositions, (Haydock) or ordinances. (Worthington)
Vatable
The 135th Psalm was sung, (Calmet) or the 117th. (Vatable)
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Calmet
Temple. This second temple, though very large (2 Machabees 14:13.) and magnificent, (Aggeus 2:10,) never equalled the glory of the first, in its outward appearance, being also destitute of the ark, and perhaps of the Urim, etc. But the presence of the Messias gave it a more exalted dignity. (Calmet)
Tirinus
Joy. These different emotions of grief and joy filled their breasts, (Du Hamel) thinking how they had brought on the judgments of God by their transgressions, and that he was now appeased, and would enable them to have some sort of a temple. (Tirinus)
Worthington
As it was less beautiful than that of Solomon, Aggeus must be understood to speak of the Church of Christ. (St. Augustine, de C.[City of God?] 18:45.) (Worthington)
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Josue.... or Jesus (Jeshua) the son of Josedec; he was the high priest, at that time.
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Notwithstanding the terrour of infideles, Gods seruantes too 〈◊〉 corage to offer sacrifice.
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By the ordinance of Dauid. 1. Pa• 25
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By their weping they testified that the new temple was not so excellent as the former. And therfore Agg•u. prophetie (c. 2.) can not be vnderstood of this temple, but of the Church of Christ. • Aug li. 18. ciuit. •. 45.
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Pope St Leo I the Great † AD 461 Letters 98
… Of whom you were chief, as the head to the members, showing your goodwill in the person of those who represented you; whilst our religious Emperors presided to the furtherance of due order, inviting us to restore the doctrinal fabric of the Church, even as Zerubbabel invited Joshua to rebuild Jerusalem
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St Athanasius of Alexandria † AD 373 Apology to the Emperor. (Apologia Ad Constantium.) 18
… in such histories, how that Joshua the son of Josedek the priest, and his brethren, and Zorobabel the wise, the son of Salathiel, and Ezra the priest and scribe of the law, when the temple was in course of building after the captivity, the feast of tabernacles being at hand (which was a great feast and time of assembly and prayer in Israel), gathered
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1. And now the seventh month had come. — In Hebrew called Tisri, which corresponds partly to our September, partly to October. For the Hebrews used lunar months, which individual lunar lunations effect. Hence it appears that the Jews departed from Babylon at the beginning of spring, in the first year of Cyrus, and after four months of journey arrived in Jerusalem in the month of July, and soon erected an altar, and prepared themselves for the feast of Tabernacles, and other things to be celebrated in the seventh month. In a similar manner Esdras in the seventh year of Artaxerxes on the first day of the first month departed from Babylon, and on the first day of the fifth month arrived in Jerusalem, as we shall hear in chapter VII, verse 1.
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2. And Jesus (or Joshua) son of Josedec rose up (who, after his father Josedec died, succeeded him in the Pontificate, and was the nephew of Esdras on his brother's side; for Esdras was the brother of Josedec), and Zorobabel son of Salathiel, — son of Jechonias, who after his grandfather and father died, succeeded to the leadership of the people. These two therefore were leaders of the people returning to Jerusalem: Jesus in ecclesiastical matters, Zorobabel in civil matters.
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4. And they celebrated the solemnity (that is, they kept the feast of Tabernacles, or Scenopegia, on the 15th day of the seventh month for seven days) and offered holocausts on each day in order according to the commandment, the work of each day on its own day, — that is to say, They offered daily throughout the whole octave of the feast as many victims, and of such kinds, and with such a rite as God had commanded to be offered, Numbers XXIX.
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5. And after these the continual holocausts, — concerning which I have spoken in Numbers XXVIII, 3.
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8. Now in the second year of their coming to the temple (to the place where the temple had stood, already burned by the Chaldeans) of God in Jerusalem, in the second month they began — to rebuild the temple.
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10. The foundation therefore having been laid by the masons of the temple (that is, the foundations of the temple having already been cast) so that they might praise God through the hands of David, — that is, through the works of David, namely through the Psalms composed by David, and through musical instruments instituted by him fittingly for singing the praises of God in the temple.
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11. Because the temple had been founded, — that is, because the foundations of the temple had already been cast, but the walls had not yet been erected, as is evident from what follows.
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12. They wept with a loud voice, — because the foundations of the new temple did not correspond to the magnitude and majesty of the former temple, and because they saw its ruins all around: yet on the other hand they rejoiced at the rebuilding of the new temple, and at their return to their homeland, and at the benevolence of Cyrus, but especially at God, who had been angry before, now being reconciled to them: wherefore this weeping was mingled with joy, and the voices of those weeping and exulting mixed together produced a harmony mingled with lamentation and jubilation.
Machine translation from the Latin, not reviewed.
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III. FROM THE REBUILDING OF NEHEMIAH TO THE DESTRUCTION OF 70. — After the liberating edict of Cyrus (538) the Jews who had returned to their homeland repaired the altar of holocausts and on the foundations of Solomon's Temple rebuilt "the house of the Lord," or second Temple (Ezra 3, 1-13); in 444, under the direction of Nehemiah, the walls of the city were raised again (Neh. 3, 1-32). Under the authority of the high priests and the Persian satraps, although the city …
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Aggeus (Hebrew Haggaj "Solemn"; Septuagint 'Αγγαῖος)
… book (1:2-11; 2:4-10; 2:12-20 and 22-24). Once a systematic resettlement of the families had taken place in the first six months, thought was given to the place of worship: the altar was restored on the spot where it had stood before the destruction (Ezra 3:2), then the foundations of the Temple were laid (Ezra 3:7 ff.). …
… In fact both the passages cited and Ezra 3:2, 8; 5:2; Neh. 12:26 speak of J. almost solely as the father of the high priest Jesus, who was of notable importance at the time of the rebuilding of Jerusalem. …
… 5:41]), he is in second place after Zerubbabel among the 12 (Neh. 7:7) leaders of the first caravan (year 537) of repatriates (Ezra 1:2). After some months, he raised up the altar again, re-established the daily sacrifice and the various solemnities (Ezra 3:2-6).
Salathiel (Heb. Sē'alt'ēl - «Asked of God»)
… Sē'alt'ēl - «Asked of God»). - Father of Zerubbabel (v.) in Ezra 3:2; 5:2; Neh. 12:1; Hag. 1:1, 12, 14; 2:3, 24; 1 Chron. 3:17 and in the genealogies of Jesus (Matt. 1:12; Luke 3:27).
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Aggeus (Hebrew Haggaj "Solemn"; Septuagint 'Αγγαῖος)
… resettlement of the families had taken place in the first six months, thought was given to the place of worship: the altar was restored on the spot where it had stood before the destruction (Ezra 3:2), then the foundations of the Temple were laid (Ezra 3:7 ff.). …
Japha (Heb. Jāp̄ō; Gr. Iyppē; Ar. Jāfā "The Beautiful")
In the port of J., the timber needed for the construction of Solomon's Temple in Jerusalem was unloaded by an envoy of King Hiram of Tyre (II Chron. 2:15), and 5 centuries later that needed for the rebuilding under Zerubbabel (Ezra 3:7). From J. the prophet Jonah set sail for Tarshish (Jonah 1:3). The city, after having endured the sovereignty of the Assyrians, the Sidonians and the Greeks, was conquered in 142 …
With Zerubbabel he prepared the labor force and the materials for the rebuilding of the Temple, which he began, amid great demonstrations of faith, in May 536 (Ezra 3:7-13). For the purity of Yahwism he rejected the collaboration of the Samaritans (Ezra 4:1-3). After the rebuilding, forcibly suspended, was resumed at the urging of Haggai and Zechariah …
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… Likewise the dedications of the Temple of Jerusalem were always protracted for eight days: at the time of the first dedication of the Temple of Jerusalem under Solomon (II Kings 8:62 ff.); as under Zerubbabel; after the exile (Ezra 3:8 f.; 6:13 ff.) and in the age of the Maccabees (Macc. 4:36 f.; 10:1 ff.), which met with the favor of the symbolic-mystical explanations, so much in vogue among the Easterners of Hellenistic …
… are attributed almost identical directive roles in the return of the exiles (Ezra 1:8-11 and 2:2; 3:2; 4:2); S. lays the foundations of the Temple of Jerusalem (ibid. 5:16), and Zerubbabel too undertakes its reconstruction a first and a second time (ibid. 3:8 ff.; 5:2 ff.; Hag. 1:14; Zech. 4:9). Against the identification, however, there are difficulties: first of all, in the documents it is never expressly stated that S. and Zerubbabel are …
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Melchia (Heb. Malkijjah[ū] «My King is Yahweh»)
1. A priest, zealous collaborator of Nehemiah in the rebuilding of Jerusalem (Neh. 3:11), but joined in marriage to a foreign woman (Ezra 3:31).
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