Ezra 3:12

3:12 Many of the priests, the Levites, and the leaders – older people who had seen with their own eyes the former temple while it was still established – were weeping loudly, and many others raised their voice in a joyous shout.

tn Heb “the heads of the fathers.”

sn The temple had been destroyed some fifty years earlier by the Babylonians in 586 b.c.

tn Heb “with a great voice.”