Ezra 3:8–13

⁸So in the second month of the year after they came back to the site of the Temple in Jerusalem, they began work. Zerubbabel, Joshua, and the rest of their fellow-countrymen, the priests, and the Levites, in fact all the exiles who had come back to Jerusalem, joined in the work. All the Levites twenty years of age or older were put in charge of the work of rebuilding the Temple. ⁹The Levite Jeshua and his sons and relatives, and Kadmiel and his sons (the clan of Hodaviah)^e joined together in taking charge of the rebuilding of the Temple. (They were helped by the Levites of the clan of Henadad.)

^10*When the builders started to lay the foundation of the Temple, the priests in their robes took their places with trumpets in their hands, and the Levites of the clan of Asaph stood there with cymbals. They praised the Lord according to the instructions handed down from the time of King David. ^11*They sang the Lord’s praises, repeating the refrain:

“The Lord is good, and his love for Israel is eternal.”

Everyone shouted with all his might, praising the Lord, because the work on the foundation of the Temple had been started. ¹²Many of the older priests, Levites, and heads of clans had seen the first Temple, and as they watched the foundation of this Temple being laid, they cried and wailed. But the others who were there shouted for joy. ¹³No one could distinguish between the joyful shouts and the crying, because the noise they made was so loud that it could be heard far and wide.