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And the priests stood arrayed in their vestments, with musical instruments and trumpets, and the Levites, the sons of Asaph, with cymbals,
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praising the Lord and blessing him, according to the directions of King David of Israel;
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they sang hymns, giving thanks to the Lord, "For his goodness and his glory are forever upon all Israel."
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And all the people sounded trumpets and shouted with a great shout, praising the Lord for the erection of the house of the Lord.
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Some of the levitical priests and heads of ancestral houses, old men who had seen the former house, came to the building of this one with outcries and loud weeping,
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while many came with trumpets and a joyful noise,
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so that the people could not hear the trumpets because of the weeping of the people. For the multitude sounded the trumpets loudly, so that the sound was heard far away;
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and when the enemies of the tribe of Judah and Benjamin heard it, they came to find out what the sound of the trumpets meant.
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They learned that those who had returned from exile were building the temple for the Lord God of Israel.
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So they approached Zerubbabel and Jeshua and the heads of the ancestral houses and said to them, "We will build with you.
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For we obey your Lord just as you do and we have been sacrificing to him ever since the days of King Esar-haddon of the Assyrians, who brought us here."