15:006:013 Then Tatnai, governor on this side the
river, Shetharboznai,
and
their companions, according to that which Darius the
king
had
sent, so they did speedily.
15:006:014 And the elders of the Jews builded, and
they prospered through
the
prophesying of Haggai the prophet and Zechariah the
son of
Iddo.
And they builded, and finished it, according to the
commandment
of the God of Israel, and according to the
commandment
of Cyrus, and Darius, and Artaxerxes king of
Persia.
15:006:015 And this house was finished on the third
day of the month
Adar,
which was in the sixth year of the reign of Darius
the
king.
15:006:016 And the children of Israel, the priests,
and the Levites, and
the
rest of the children of the captivity, kept the dedication
of
this house of God with joy.
15:006:017 And offered at the dedication of this house
of God an hundred
bullocks,
two hundred rams, four hundred lambs; and for a sin
offering
for all Israel, twelve he goats, according to the
number
of the tribes of Israel.
15:006:018 And they set the priests in their divisions,
and the Levites
in
their courses, for the service of God, which is at
Jerusalem;
as it is written in the book of Moses.
15:006:019 And the children of the captivity kept
the passover upon the
fourteenth
day of the first month.
15:006:020 For the priests and the Levites were purified
together, all of
them
were pure, and killed the passover for all the children
of
the captivity, and for their brethren the priests,
and for
themselves.
15:006:021 And the children of Israel, which were
come again out of
captivity,
and all such as had separated themselves unto them
from
the filthiness of the heathen of the land, to seek
the
lord
God of Israel, did eat,
15:006:022 And kept the feast of unleavened bread
seven days with joy:
for
the lord had made them joyful, and turned the
heart of the
king
of Assyria unto them, to strengthen their hands in
the
work
of the house of God, the God of Israel.
15:007:001 Now after these things, in the reign of
Artaxerxes king of
Persia,
Ezra the son of Seraiah, the son of Azariah, the son
of
Hilkiah,
15:007:002 The son of Shallum, the son of Zadok, the son of Ahitub,
15:007:003 The son of Amariah, the son of Azariah, the son of Meraioth,
15:007:004 The son of Zerahiah, the son of Uzzi, the son of Bukki,
15:007:005 The son of Abishua, the son of Phinehas,
the son of Eleazar,
the
son of Aaron the chief priest:


