...built about which we have this affecting testimony : " Many of the priests and Levites, and cliief of the fathers, who were ancient men, that had seen the first house, when the foundation of tliis house was laid before their eyes, wept with a loud voice, and many shouted aloud for joy, so...

...possessions were as nothing in the sight of those who had seen that " house in her first glory 2 ;" and " many of the priests and Levites, and chief of the fathers, who were ancient men," remembering those things, " wept with a loud voice '," when they saw its foundations laid ! What, though...

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...shout, when they praised the LORD, because the foundation of the house of the LORD was laid. 12 But and th ; and many shouted aloud for joy : 13 So that the people could not discern the noise of the shout of...

...building of it, as appeared by the tears dropped from those eyes which had beheld the former, (" For many of the priests and Levites and chief of the fathers,...was laid before their eyes, wept with a loud voice ;" Ezra iii. 13.) and by those words which God commanded Haggai to speak to the people for the introducing...

...Habylon. In the third chapter of the book of Ezra, we are told that " many of the priests and Lévites, and chief of the fathers, who were ancient men, that...was laid before their eyes, wept with a loud voice." This state of mind led to the address made to them by the Lord, as recorded in the second chapter of...

...them that had been carried away from Jerusalem, who survived the whole time, and lived to come back. " Many of the priests and Levites, and chief of the...that had seen the first house, when the foundation of the second * Work*, vol. ip 84. f Ibid. p. 101. t Ibid. p. 84. house was laid before their eyes, wept...

...shout, when they praised the LORD, because the foundation of the house of the LORD was laid. 12But ninny dren unto the hird and fourth generat ion. 19 Pardon,...iniquity of this people according unto the greatness o tin's house was laid before their eyes, wept with a loud voice ; and many shouted aloud for joy : 13...

...the house of the Lord was laid : but many of the chief priests and Levites, and chief of the fathers that had seen the first house, when the foundation...was laid before their eyes, wept with a loud voice ; and many shouted aloud for joy. So that the people could not discern the noise of the shout of joy...

...natural in such circumstances. This is described in the book of Ezra with much simplicity : — " But many of the priests and Levites, and chief of the...was laid before their eyes, wept with a loud voice." Now the prophet Haggai was sent on this occasion to encourage those who were engaged in rebuilding...