Esdras 3:8

Louis Segond

La seconde année depuis leur arrivée à la maison de Dieu à Jérusalem, au second mois, Zorobabel, fils de Schealthiel, Josué, fils de Jotsadak, avec le reste de leurs frères les sacrificateurs et les Lévites, et tous ceux qui étaient revenus de la captivité à Jérusalem, se mirent à l'oeuvre et chargèrent les Lévites de vingt ans et au-dessus de surveiller les travaux de la maison de l'Eternel.

Parallel Translations

La Bible Ostervald (1996)
Et la seconde année depuis leur arrivée à la maison de Dieu, à Jérusalem, au second mois, Zorobabel, fils de Salathiel, Jéshua, fils de Jotsadak, et le reste de leurs frères, les sacrificateurs, et les Lévites, et tous ceux qui étaient venus de la captivité à Jérusalem, commencèrent; et ils établirent des Lévites, depuis l'âge de vingt ans et au-dessus, pour présider à l'ouvrage de la maison de l'Éternel.

Darby's French Translation
Et la seconde année de leur arrivée à la maison de Dieu à Jérusalem, au second mois, Zorobabel, fils de Shealthiel, et Jéshua, fils de Jotsadak, et le reste de leurs frères, les sacrificateurs et les lévites, et tous ceux qui étaient venus de la captivité à Jérusalem, commencèrent; et ils établirent les lévites, depuis l'âge de vingt ans et au-dessus, pour surveiller l'oeuvre de la maison de l'Éternel.

La Bible David Martin (1744)
Et la seconde année de leur arrivée en la maison de Dieu à Jérusalem, au second mois, Zorobabel, fils de Salathiel, et Jésuah, fils de Jotsadak, et le reste de leurs frères, les Sacrificateurs, et les Lévites, et tous ceux qui étaient venus de la captivité à Jérusalem, commencèrent [à fonder le Temple]; et ils établirent des Lévites, depuis l'âge de vingt ans et au-dessus, pour presser l'ouvrage de la maison de l'Eternel.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Zerubbabel: Ezra 3:2

twenty years old: Numbers 4:3, 1 Chronicles 23:24-32

Reciprocal: 1 Kings 6:38 - seven years 1 Chronicles 3:17 - Salathiel Ezra 2:2 - Jeshua Ezra 5:16 - laid Ezra 6:14 - And the elders Nehemiah 7:1 - the porters Nehemiah 7:7 - Jeshua Nehemiah 12:1 - Zerubbabel Jeremiah 30:3 - and I Haggai 1:1 - unto Zechariah 4:9 - have

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Now in the second year of their coming unto the house of God at Jerusalem,.... The place where it formerly stood; the Jews seem to have set out from Babylon, in the spring of the preceding year, as it was now of this; which to Jerusalem was a journey of about four months, as Ezra performed it, Ezra 7:9, but might take up longer time for such a body of people to do it in, being larger than that with him; wherefore, after they had visited their respective cities, and settled their affairs there, they came to Jerusalem on the seventh month, or September, and kept the feast of tabernacles, and then they returned to their cities again, the winter season being an improper time to begin the building of the temple; having given money to workmen to purchase materials with, and no doubt left a sufficient number to clear away the rubbish, and get things ready by the returning spring to set about the work:

in the second month; the mouth Ijar, as Jarchi observes, answering to part of April and May, having, as may be supposed, kept the passover the month before:

began Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, and Jeshua the son of Jozadak: the prince, and the high priest:

and the remnant of their brethren, the priests and Levites, and all they that were come out of the captivity unto Jerusalem; whose names and numbers are given in the preceding chapter:

and appointed the Levites from twenty years old and upwards to set forward the work of the house of the Lord; to put men to work upon it, and direct them what to do, and urge them to attend closely to it; ever since David's time the Levites were employed at twenty years of age, when before not till thirty, or twenty five; see 1 Chronicles 23:24.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Unto the house of God - i. e., to the place where the house of God had been, and where God was believed still to have His special dwelling.

And appointed the Levites - This is the emphatic clause of the present verse. Though so small a number of Levites had returned from Babylon Ezra 2:40, yet they were especially singled out to be entrusted with the task of superintending and advancing the building of the temple.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Ezra 3:8. In the second year — The previous time had been employed in clearing the ground, felling timber, hewing stones, and transporting them to the place, and making other necessary preparations for the commencement of the building.