...shout, when they praised the LORD, because the foundation of the house of the LORD was laid. 12 'But me from my strong enemy, and from them that hated me: for the uvre ancient men, that had seen the first house, when the foundation of this house was laid before...

...for from Ezra we' learn, that, in this respect, the former temple was far superiour to the latter ; " many of the priests and Levites, and chief of the...was laid before their eyes, wept with a loud voice ;" so mortifying was the comparison. Our prophet himself holds the same language, ch. ii. 3. " Who...

...îhe LORD was laid. • 12 But many of the priests and Lévites and chief ofthe fathers, wAo a-crc en the people of war that were with him, went up,...before the city, and pitched on the north side of Ai : ; and many shouted aloud for joy : 13 So that the people could not discern the noise of the shout of...

...overturned, both by the shortness of that captivity, and by the internal evidence of the book of Ezra itself. Many of the priests and Levites and chief of the fathers, who were ancient men, says Ezra, had seen the Jirst house, and were moved to tears when they had compared it with the second...

...shout, when they praised the LORD, because the foundation if the house of the LORD was laid. 12 But 5 ; and many snouted aloud for joy : 13 So that the people could not discern the noise of the shout of...

...solemnity, and it was nearly 20 years in building; but many of the " Priests and Levites, and chiefs of the fathers, who " were ancient men, that had seen...laid before their eyes, wept with " a loud voice," at its inferiority,—Ezra, iii. 12.—This consisted not only in the building, but in the circumstances...

...shout when they praised the Lord, because the foundation of the house of the Lord was laid. . " 12. But many of the priests and Levites, and chief of the...was laid before their eyes, wept with a loud voice, and many shouted loud for joy. " 13. So that the people could not discover the noise of the shout of...

...the stately work and goodly buildings of the other, could not but rejoice with tears in their eyes. " Many of the priests and Levites, and chief of the...house, when the foundation of this house was laid, wept with a loud voice." Ezra iii. 12. O it revived the sad thoughts of the sacking of that glorious...

...ordinance of David, King of Israel, — and the People shouted with a great shout, but many of the chiefs of the fathers who were ancient men, that had seen...was laid before their eyes, wept with a loud voice, and many shouted aloud for joy. But they were interrupted in the work by the Samaritans, the People...

...bring forth their fruit in due season. And, dear Friends ; as it is recorded in Holy Scripture, that " many of the priests and Levites, and chief of the fathers, who * PSALM i. 3, " were ancient men, who had seen the first house, when the foun" dation of the second...