Ezra 6:16

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The people of Israel—the priests, the Levites, and the rest of the exiles—celebrated the dedication of this house of God with joy.

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  • 2 Chr 7:5 : 5 King Solomon offered a sacrifice of 22,000 cattle and 120,000 sheep and goats. So the king and all the people dedicated the temple of God.
  • 1 Kgs 8:63 : 63 And Solomon offered a sacrifice of fellowship offerings to the LORD: twenty-two thousand cattle and a hundred and twenty thousand sheep. So the king and all the Israelites dedicated the house of the LORD.
  • 1 Chr 9:2 : 2 The first inhabitants who lived on their property in their cities were Israelites, priests, Levites, and the temple servants.
  • 1 Chr 15:28 : 28 So all Israel brought up the ark of the covenant of the LORD with shouts of joy, the sound of the ram's horn, trumpets, cymbals, and the music of harps and lyres.
  • Deut 12:7 : 7 There, in the presence of the Lord your God, you and your households shall eat and rejoice in all the good things the Lord your God has blessed you with.
  • 2 Chr 7:9-9 : 9 On the eighth day, they held a solemn assembly, for they had celebrated the dedication of the altar for seven days and the festival for seven days more. 10 On the twenty-third day of the seventh month, he sent the people to their homes, joyful and glad of heart because of the goodness the LORD had shown to David, to Solomon, and to His people Israel.
  • 2 Chr 30:23 : 23 The whole assembly decided to celebrate the festival for another seven days, so they celebrated joyfully for seven more days.
  • 2 Chr 30:26 : 26 There was great joy in Jerusalem, for nothing like this had happened in Jerusalem since the days of Solomon son of David, king of Israel.
  • Ezra 3:11-12 : 11 With praise and thanksgiving, they sang to the LORD: 'He is good; his steadfast love endures forever for Israel.' And all the people gave a great shout of praise to the LORD because the foundation of the LORD’s house had been laid. 12 But many of the priests, Levites, and family heads—the elderly who had seen the first temple—were weeping loudly when they saw the foundation of this temple being laid, while many others shouted for joy.
  • Ezra 4:1 : 1 When the enemies of Judah and Benjamin heard that the returned exiles were building a temple for the LORD, the God of Israel,
  • Ezra 6:22 : 22 They celebrated the Feast of Unleavened Bread for seven days with joy, because the LORD had filled them with joy by changing the attitude of the king of Assyria toward them, so that he supported them in the work on the house of God, the God of Israel.
  • Neh 8:10 : 10 Nehemiah said, 'Go and celebrate with rich foods and sweet drinks, and send portions to those who have nothing prepared. For this day is holy to our Lord. Do not grieve, for the joy of the LORD is your strength.'
  • Neh 12:43 : 43 On that day, they sacrificed great offerings and rejoiced, because God had given them great joy. The women and children also rejoiced, and the sound of Jerusalem's joy could be heard from afar.
  • Ps 122:1 : 1 I was glad when they said to me, 'Let us go to the house of the LORD.'
  • John 10:22 : 22 Then the Festival of Dedication took place in Jerusalem. It was winter,
  • Phil 4:4 : 4 Rejoice in the Lord always! I will say it again: Rejoice!

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  • Ezra 6:14-15
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    14So the elders of the Jews continued building and succeeded through the prophesying of Haggai the prophet and Zechariah, the son of Iddo. They finished building according to the command of the God of Israel and the decrees of Cyrus, Darius, and Artaxerxes, kings of Persia.

    15This temple was completed on the third day of the month of Adar, in the sixth year of the reign of King Darius.

  • Ezra 6:17-22
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    17They offered for the dedication of this house of God one hundred bulls, two hundred rams, four hundred lambs, and twelve male goats as a sin offering for all Israel, according to the number of the tribes of Israel.

    18Then they appointed the priests in their divisions and the Levites in their groups for the service of God in Jerusalem, according to what is written in the Book of Moses.

    19The exiles celebrated the Passover on the fourteenth day of the first month.

    20The priests and Levites had purified themselves together, and all of them were ceremonially clean. They slaughtered the Passover lamb for all the exiles, for their brothers the priests, and for themselves.

    21The Israelites who had returned from exile ate it, along with all who had separated themselves from the uncleanness of the Gentiles of the land to seek the LORD, the God of Israel.

    22They celebrated the Feast of Unleavened Bread for seven days with joy, because the LORD had filled them with joy by changing the attitude of the king of Assyria toward them, so that he supported them in the work on the house of God, the God of Israel.

  • Neh 12:27
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    27At the dedication of the wall of Jerusalem, they sought out the Levites from all their places to bring them to Jerusalem to celebrate the dedication with gladness, with thanksgiving and with singing, accompanied by cymbals, harps, and lyres.

  • Ezra 3:11-12
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    11With praise and thanksgiving, they sang to the LORD: 'He is good; his steadfast love endures forever for Israel.' And all the people gave a great shout of praise to the LORD because the foundation of the LORD’s house had been laid.

    12But many of the priests, Levites, and family heads—the elderly who had seen the first temple—were weeping loudly when they saw the foundation of this temple being laid, while many others shouted for joy.

  • Neh 8:16-18
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    16So the people went out, brought back branches, and built booths for themselves on their roofs, in their courtyards, in the courtyards of the house of God, in the square by the Water Gate, and in the square by the Gate of Ephraim.

    17The whole assembly of those who had returned from exile built booths and lived in them. From the days of Joshua son of Nun until that day, the Israelites had not celebrated it like this, and their joy was very great.

    18Day after day, from the first day to the last, Ezra read from the Book of the Law of God. They celebrated the festival for seven days, and on the eighth day, there was a solemn assembly, according to the ordinance.

  • 2 Chr 30:25
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    25The entire assembly of Judah rejoiced, along with the priests and Levites, the whole assembly from Israel, the foreigners who had come from Israel, and those who lived in Judah.

  • Ezra 3:8
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    8In the second year after their arrival at the house of God in Jerusalem, in the second month, Zerubbabel son of Shealtiel, Jeshua son of Jozadak, and the rest of their brothers—the priests, the Levites, and all who had returned from captivity to Jerusalem—began the work. They appointed Levites twenty years old and older to oversee the work on the house of the LORD.

  • Ezra 6:7-8
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    7Leave the work on this house of God alone. Let the governor of the Jews and the elders of the Jews rebuild this house of God on its original site.

    8Moreover, I issue a decree as to what you are to do for these elders of the Jews in the rebuilding of this house of God: The expenses are to be fully paid to these men from the royal treasury from the tributes of the region Beyond the River, so that the work is not hindered.

  • Ezra 1:5-6
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    5Then the family heads of Judah and Benjamin, the priests, and the Levites—everyone whose spirit God had stirred—rose to go up and rebuild the house of the LORD in Jerusalem.

    6Their neighbors supported them with silver articles, gold, goods, livestock, and choice gifts, in addition to all the freewill offerings.

  • Ezra 4:1
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    1When the enemies of Judah and Benjamin heard that the returned exiles were building a temple for the LORD, the God of Israel,

  • Hag 1:15
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    15On the twenty-fourth day of the sixth month, in the second year of Darius the king.

  • Ezra 3:1-2
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    1When the seventh month came, and the Israelites were in their cities, the people gathered together as one in Jerusalem.

    2Then Jeshua son of Jozadak and his fellow priests, along with Zerubbabel son of Shealtiel and his brothers, 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.

  • 2 Chr 29:15-17
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    15They gathered their fellow Levites, consecrated themselves, and went in as the king commanded, in accordance with the words of the LORD, to purify the house of the LORD.

    16The priests entered the inner part of the house of the LORD to cleanse it. They brought out all the unclean things they found in the temple of the LORD and carried them to the courtyard of the house of the LORD. The Levites then took them and carried them out to the Kidron Valley.

    17They began the consecration on the first day of the first month, and on the eighth day of the month, they reached the vestibule of the LORD. For eight days, they consecrated the house of the LORD, and on the sixteenth day of the first month, they completed their work.

  • Ezra 8:35-36
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    35The exiles who had returned from captivity offered burnt offerings to the God of Israel: twelve bulls for all Israel, ninety-six rams, seventy-seven lambs, and twelve male goats as a sin offering. All this was a burnt offering to the LORD.

    36They also delivered the king’s decrees to the royal satraps and governors of the region beyond the River. These officials supported the people and the house of God.

  • Ezra 6:3-5
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    3In the first year of King Cyrus, King Cyrus issued a decree: The house of God in Jerusalem is to be rebuilt as a place where sacrifices are offered, with its foundations firmly laid. Its height is to be sixty cubits and its width sixty cubits.

    4It will have three layers of large stone and one layer of new timber. The cost will be paid from the royal treasury.

    5Also, the gold and silver articles of the house of God that Nebuchadnezzar took out of the temple in Jerusalem and brought to Babylon must be returned and brought back to the temple in Jerusalem, each to its rightful place, and deposited into the house of God.

  • Ezra 8:25
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    25I weighed out to them the silver, gold, and articles—the offering for the house of our God that the king, his counselors, his officials, and all the Israelites who were present had donated.

  • Ezra 5:15-16
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    15And he said to him, 'Take these vessels and go; deposit them in the temple in Jerusalem, and let the house of God be rebuilt on its original site.'

    16Then this Sheshbazzar came and laid the foundations of the house of God in Jerusalem. And from that time until now, it has been under construction and is not yet completed.

  • Neh 12:43
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    43On that day, they sacrificed great offerings and rejoiced, because God had given them great joy. The women and children also rejoiced, and the sound of Jerusalem's joy could be heard from afar.

  • Ezra 5:11-13
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    11'This was their reply to us: "We are the servants of the God of heaven and earth, and we are rebuilding the temple that was built many years ago. It was a great king of Israel who built and completed it."'

    12'But because our ancestors angered the God of heaven, He gave them into the hands of Nebuchadnezzar, the king of Babylon, the Chaldean, who destroyed this temple and deported the people to Babylon.'

    13'However, in the first year of Cyrus, king of Babylon, King Cyrus issued a decree to rebuild this temple of God.'

  • Neh 13:30
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    30Thus I purified them from everything foreign and assigned duties to the priests and Levites, each to his task.

  • Neh 13:5
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    5He had provided Tobiah with a large room, where previously they had stored the grain offerings, incense, temple articles, tithes of grain, new wine, and oil, which were prescribed for the Levites, singers, gatekeepers, and the contributions for the priests.

  • 2 Chr 24:13
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    13The workers diligently carried out their tasks, and the restoration of the temple made steady progress under their hands. They rebuilt the house of God according to its original design and strengthened it.

  • Ezra 7:27
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    27Blessed be the Lord, the God of our ancestors, who put such a thing as this into the heart of the king, to beautify the house of the Lord in Jerusalem.

  • Ezra 3:6
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    6From the first day of the seventh month, they began to offer burnt offerings to the LORD, even though the foundation of the LORD’s temple had not yet been laid.

  • 2 Chr 7:9
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    9On the eighth day, they held a solemn assembly, for they had celebrated the dedication of the altar for seven days and the festival for seven days more.

  • 2 Chr 6:38
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    38And when they return to You with all their heart and soul in the land of their captivity where they were taken, and they pray toward the land You gave to their ancestors, the city You have chosen, and the house I have built for Your name,

  • Neh 13:9
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    9Then I ordered the rooms to be purified, and I brought back the articles of the house of God, along with the grain offerings and the incense.

  • Ezra 7:15-16
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    15And to bring the silver and gold that the king and his counselors have freely offered to the God of Israel, whose dwelling is in Jerusalem.

    16Together with all the silver and gold you may find in the whole province of Babylon, as well as the freewill offerings of the people and the priests given for the house of their God in Jerusalem.

  • Neh 10:39
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    39A priest, a descendant of Aaron, will accompany the Levites when they collect the tithes, and they will bring a tenth of the collected tithes to the storerooms of the house of our God, to the treasury.