They swore their allegiance to the <sc>Lordsc>, shouting their approval loudly and sounding trumpets and horns.<n id="1" />

The trumpeters and musicians played together, praising and giving thanks to the <sc>Lordsc>. Accompanied by trumpets, cymbals, and other instruments, they loudly praised the <sc>Lordsc>, singing:<n id="1" /> &#8220;Certainly he is good; certainly his loyal love endures!&#8221; Then a cloud filled the <sc>Lordsc>&#8217;s temple.<n id="2" />

Then some Levites, from the Kohathites and Korahites, got up and loudly praised the <sc>Lordsc> God of Israel.<n id="1" />p>

<p class="bodytext">When Athaliah heard the royal guard<n id="1" /> shouting and praising the king, she joined the crowd<n id="2" /> at the <sc>Lordsc>&#8217;s temple.

An edict was sent throughout Judah and Jerusalem requiring the people to bring to the <sc>Lordsc> the tax that Moses, God&#8217;s servant, imposed on Israel in the wilderness.<n id="1" />

The priests and Levites got up and pronounced blessings on the people. The <sc>Lordsc> responded favorably to them<n id="1" /> as their prayers reached his holy dwelling place in heaven.p>

They called out loudly in the Judahite dialect to the people of Jerusalem who were on the wall, trying to scare and terrify them so they could seize the city.

So they sent an edict<n id="1" /> throughout Israel from Beer Sheba to Dan, summoning the people<n id="2" /> to come and observe a Passover for the <sc>Lordsc> God of Israel in Jerusalem, for they had not observed it on a nationwide scale as prescribed in the law.<n id="3" />

<t /><p class="bodytext">In the first year of the reign of<n id="1" /> King Cyrus of Persia, in fulfillment of the promise he delivered through Jeremiah,<n id="2" /> the <sc>Lordsc> moved<n id="3" /> King Cyrus of Persia to issue a written decree throughout his kingdom.