^{1 Ref} When the seventh month was come, and the children of Israel were in the cities, the people gathered themselves together as one man to Jerusalem.

^{2 Ref} Then stood up Jeshua the son of Jozadak, and his brothers the priests, and Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, and his brothers, and built the altar of the God of Israel, to offer burnt offerings thereon, as it is written in the law of Moses the man of God.

^{3 Ref} They set the altar on its base; for fear was on them because of the peoples of the countries: and they offered burnt offerings thereon to Yahweh, even burnt offerings morning and evening.