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Ezra 3:12

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3:12 Many of the priests, the Levites, and the leaders 1  – older people who had seen with their own eyes the former temple while it was still established 2  – were weeping loudly, 3  and many others raised their voice in a joyous shout.

Ezra 10:1

Context
The People Confess Their Sins

10:1 While Ezra was praying and confessing, weeping and throwing himself to the ground before the temple of God, a very large crowd of Israelites – men, women, and children alike – gathered around him. The people wept loudly. 4 

1 tn Heb “the heads of the fathers.”

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

3 tn Heb “with a great voice.”

4 tn Heb “with much weeping.”



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