Ezra 3:13

So that the people could not discern the noise of the shout of simchah from the noise of the weeping of the people; for the people shouted with a loud shout, and the noise was heard afar off.

Orthodox Jewish Bible

In The King James Version

So that the people could not discern the noise of the shout of joy from the noise of the weeping of the people: for the people shouted with a loud shout, and the noise was heard afar off.

In Context

12But many of the kohanim and Levi'im and chief of the avot, who were zekenim (ancient men), that had seen the Beis HaRishon, + 3:12 Beis HaMikdash of Sh'lomo when the foundation of this Beis + 3:12 Hamikdash was laid before their eyes, wept with a loud voice, and many shouted aloud for simchah;

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Cross References

Judges 2:5And they called the shem of that place Bokhim; and they sacrificed there unto Hashem.

1 Kings 1:40And kol HaAm came up after him, and the people played chalilim (flutes), and rejoiced with simchah gedolah, so that ha'aretz split with the sound of them.

Nehemiah 12:43Also that day they offered zevakhim gedolim, and rejoiced, for HaElohim had made them rejoice with great joy; the wives also and the children rejoiced, so that the joy of Yerushalayim was heard even afar off.

Psalms 100:1(Mizmor l'todah) 1

Zechariah 4:7Who art thou, O har hagadol (great mountain), before Zerubavel? 1 Thou shalt become a plain; 1 and he shall bring forth the even haroshah (cornerstone) thereof with shoutings, crying, 1 Chen, chen (Grace, grace) unto it.

Matthew Henry on Ezra 3:9-13

The Foundation of the Temple Laid. ( b. c. 535.) 8 Now in the second year of their coming unto the house of God at Jerusalem, in the second month, began Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, and Jeshua the son of Jozadak, and the remnant of their brethren the priests and the Levites, and all they that were come out of the captivity unto Jerusalem; and appointed the Levites, from twenty years old and upward, to set forward the work of the house of the Lord . 9 Then stood Jeshua with his sons and his brethren, Kadmiel… Read the whole commentary →

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