Ezra 3:12

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Tetapi banyak di antara para imam, orang-orang Lewi dan kepala-kepala kaum keluarga, orang tua-tua yang pernah melihat rumah yang dahulu, menangis dengan suara nyaring, ketika perletakan dasar rumah ini dilakukan di depan mata mereka, sedang banyak orang bersorak-sorai dengan suara nyaring karena kegirangan.

Parallel Translations

Alkitab Terjemahan Baru
Tetapi banyak di antara para imam, orang-orang Lewi dan kepala-kepala kaum keluarga, orang tua-tua yang pernah melihat rumah yang dahulu, menangis dengan suara nyaring, ketika perletakan dasar rumah ini dilakukan di depan mata mereka, sedang banyak orang bersorak-sorai dengan suara nyaring karena kegirangan.

Alkitab Terjemahan Lama
Tetapi banyaklah imam dan orang Lewi dan penghulu bapa-bapa, yang sudah tua dan yang sudah tahu melihat rumah yang dahulu itu, apabila alas rumah ini adalah di hadapan matanya, menangislah mereka itu dengan suara yang nyaring, sementara orang banyak itu bersorak ramai-ramai dari sukacita hatinya.

Contextual Overview

⁸ In the second yere of their comming vnto the house of God at Hierusalem in the second moneth, began Zorobabel the sonne of Salathiel, and Iesua the sonne of Iosedec, and the remnaunt of their brethren, the priestes and Leuites, and all they that were come out of the captiuitie vnto Hierusalem: and appoynted the Leuites from twentie yeres olde and aboue, to see that the worke of the house of the Lorde went forwarde. ⁹ And Iesua stoode with his sonnes and brethren, and Cadmiel with his sonnes & the children of Iuda together, to set forwarde the workmen of the house of God, euen the childre of Henadad, with their children, and their brethren the Leuites. ¹⁰ And when the builders layed the foundation of the temple of the Lorde, they appoynted the priestes in their araye with trumpettes, and the Leuites the children of Asaph with cymbales, to prayse the Lorde after the maner of Dauid king of Israel. ¹¹ And they sang together when they gaue prayse and thankes vnto the lorde, Because he is gracious, and because his mercie endureth for euer vpon Israel: And all the people showted loude in praysing the Lorde, because the foundation of the house of the Lord was layd. ¹² Many also of the priestes & Leuites and chiefe fathers, and auncient men which had seene the first house, when the foundation was layde before their eyes, wept with a loude voyce, and many showted aloude with ioy: ¹³ So that the people coulde not discerne the ioyfull sounde & gladnesse, from the noyse of the weeping among the people: for the people showted with a loude crye, and the noyse was heard farre of.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

many: Haggai 2:3

when the foundation: Job 8:7, Isaiah 41:14, Isaiah 60:22, Daniel 2:34, Daniel 2:35, Zechariah 4:10, Matthew 13:31, Matthew 13:32

wept: Psalms 126:6, Jeremiah 31:8, Jeremiah 31:9

Reciprocal: 1 Chronicles 22:5 - exceeding 2 Chronicles 20:19 - a loud Ezra 4:2 - Zerubbabel Ezra 6:16 - with joy Job 38:7 - shouted Psalms 132:9 - shout Jeremiah 30:3 - and I Jeremiah 50:4 - going Ezekiel 7:20 - the beauty Matthew 28:8 - with Acts 16:25 - and the

Cross-References

Genesis 2:18
And the Lord God sayde: It is not good yt the man should be alone, I wyll make hym an helpe lyke vnto hym.

Genesis 2:20
And the man gaue names to all cattell, and foule of the ayre, & euery beast of the fielde: but for man founde he not an helpe lyke vnto hym.

Genesis 2:22
And the ribbe which the lord god had taken from man, made he a woman, & brought her vnto the man.

Genesis 3:13
And the Lord God sayd vnto the woman: Why hast thou done this? And the woman sayde: the serpent begyled me, and I dyd eate.

Genesis 3:15
I wyll also put enmitie betweene thee & the woman, betweene thy seede and her seede: and it shall treade downe thy head, and thou shalt treade vpon his heele.

Genesis 3:20
And Adam called his wyfes name Heua, because she was the mother of all lyuyng.

Genesis 3:21
Unto Adam also and to his wyfe dyd the Lorde God make garments of skynnes, and he put them on.

Genesis 3:24
And so he droue out man, and at the east side of the garde of Eden he set Cherubins, and a fierie two edged sworde, to kepe the way of the tree of lyfe.

Job 31:33
Haue I kept secrete my sinne, and hyd myne iniquitie, as Adam dyd?

Proverbs 19:3
The foolishnesse of man paruerteth his way: and his heart fretteth against the Lorde.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

But many of the priests and Levites, and chief of the fathers, who were ancient men,.... Seventy or eighty years of age:

that had seen the first house; the temple built by Solomon, as they very well might, since then it had been destroyed but fifty two years; for the seventy years captivity are to be reckoned from the fourth of Jehoiakim, when it began, and which was eighteen years before the destruction of the temple; the beginning of the next clause,

when in the foundation, according to the Hebrew accents, is to be connected with this,

that had seen the first house; not when first founded, for that was five hundred years ago, but in "its foundation"; they saw it standing upon its foundation, in all its glory, and so the Septuagint version; and we may read on, when

this house was before their eyes, wept with a loud voice; seeing what it was like to be by the foundation now laid, and was in their sight as nothing in comparison of the former; see Haggai 2:3 but Aben Ezra connects this clause as we do,

when the foundation of this house was laid; not but that the dimensions of this house strictly taken were as large as the former: see Ezra 6:3, but not the courts and appendages to it: besides, what might affect them, there was no likelihood of its being so richly decorated with gold and silver as the former temple, and many things would be wanting in it, as the Urim and Thummim, c.

and many shouted aloud for joy of the younger sort, who had never seen the grandeur of the first temple, and were highly delighted with the beginning of this, and the hope of seeing it finished.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Wept ... shouted ... for joy - Compare the marginal reference and Zechariah 4:10. It is implied that the dimensions of the second temple were smaller than those of the first. Hence, the feeling of sorrow which came upon some. They, however, who had not seen the former temple, and so could not contrast the two, naturally rejoiced to see the sanctuary of their religion begin to rise from its ruins.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Ezra 3:12. Wept with a loud voice — They saw that the glory had departed from Israel; in their circumstances it was impossible to build such a house as the first temple was; and had this been even possible, still it would have been greatly inferior, because it wanted the ark of the covenant, the heavenly fire, the mercy-seat, the heavenly manna, Aaron's rod that budded, the Divine shechinah, the spirit of prophecy, and most probably the Urim and Thummim.

Many shouted for joy — Finding they were now restored to their own land, and to the worship of their God in his own peculiar city: these, in general, had not seen the original temple; and therefore could not feel affected in that way which the elderly people did.

The sight must have been very affecting: a whole people, one part crying aloud with sorrow; the other shouting aloud for joy; and on the same occasion too, in which both sides felt an equal interest! The prophet Haggai comforted them on this occasion by assuring them that the glory of this latter house should exceed that of the former, because the Lord (Jesus Christ) was to come to this temple, and fill it with his glory. See Haggai, Haggai 2:1-9.