Ezra 06 The Temple is Finished and Dedicated

 Ezra 06

The Temple is Finished and Dedicated

13 Then Tatnai, the governor beyond the River, Shetharboznai, and their companions did so in haste, according to the decree of King Darius.

14 And the elders of the Jews were building and prospering through the prophecy of Haggai the prophet and Zechariah the son of Iddo; and they built the house and finished it according to the command of Cyrus and Darius and Artaxerxes king of Persia.

15 And the house was finished on the third day of the month Adar, which was the sixth year of the reign of King Darius.

16 And the children of Israel, the priests, and the Levites, and the rest of the children of the exile, dedicated this house of God with joy.

17 And they offered for the dedication of this house of God one hundred bulls, two hundred rams, four hundred lambs, and twelve kids of the goats, for a sin offering for all Israel, according to the number of the tribes of Israel.

18 And they set the priests in their courses, and the Levites in their divisions, for the ministry of God which is in Jerusalem, according to the writing in the book of Moses.

19 And those who had come out of the captivity kept the Passover on the fourteenth day of the first month.

20 For the priests and the Levites had purified themselves as one man, and were all clean; and they killed the Passover lamb for all the children of the captivity, and for their brethren the priests, and for themselves.

21 So the children of Israel who had come out of the captivity ate the Passover, with all who separated themselves with them from the uncleanness of the people of the land, to seek the Lord, the God of Israel. 

22 And they kept the feast of unleavened bread seven days with joy, because the Lord had made them glad and had turned the heart of the king of Assyria toward them, to strengthen their hands in the work of the house of God, the God of Israel.