Ezra 3:8–13

⁸In the second month^j of the second year after their arrival at the house of God in Jerusalem, Zerubbabel^k son of Shealtiel, Joshua son of Jozadak and the rest of the people (the priests and the Levites and all who had returned from the captivity to Jerusalem) began the work. They appointed Levites twenty^l years old and older to supervise the building of the house of the Lord. ⁹Joshua^m and his sons and brothers and Kadmiel and his sons (descendants of Hodaviah^a) and the sons of Henadad and their sons and brothers—all Levites—joined together in supervising those working on the house of God.

¹⁰When the builders laidⁿ the foundation of the temple of the Lord, the priests in their vestments and with trumpets,^o and the Levites (the sons of Asaph) with cymbals, took their places to praise^p the Lord, as prescribed by David^q king of Israel.^{r 11}With praise and thanksgiving they sang to the Lord:

“He is good;

his love toward Israel endures forever.”^s

And all the people gave a great shout^t of praise to the Lord, because the foundation^u of the house of the Lord was laid. ¹²But many of the older priests and Levites and family heads, who had seen the former temple,^v wept^w aloud when they saw the foundation of this temple being laid, while many others shouted for joy. ¹³No one could distinguish the sound of the shouts of joy^x from the sound of weeping, because the people made so much noise. And the sound was heard far away.