<p class="bodytext">The sons of Jehoiachin the exile:<n id="1" />p> <p class="bodytext">Shealtiel his son,

<t /><p class="bodytext">These are the priests and Levites who returned<n id="1" /> with Zerubbabel son of Shealtiel and Jeshua: Seraiah, Jeremiah, Ezra,

&#8220;Ask the following questions to<n id="1" /> Zerubbabel son of Shealtiel, governor of Judah, the high priest Joshua son of Jehozadak,<n id="2" /> and the remnant of the people:

Then Jeshua the son of Jozadak<n id="1" /> and his priestly colleagues<n id="2" /> and Zerubbabel son of Shealtiel and his colleagues<n id="3" /> started to build<n id="4" /> the altar of the God of Israel so they could offer burnt offerings on it as required by<n id="5" /> the law of Moses the man of God.

<t /><p class="bodytext">On the first day of the sixth month<n id="1" /> of King Darius&#8217;<n id="2" /> second year, the <sc>Lordsc> spoke this message through the prophet Haggai<n id="3" /> to Zerubbabel son of Shealtiel, governor of Judah, and to the high priest Joshua son of Jehozadak:<n id="4" />p>

<t /><p class="bodytext">Then Zerubbabel son of Shealtiel and the high priest Joshua son of Jehozadak,<n id="1" /> along with the whole remnant of the people,<n id="2" /> obeyed<n id="3" /> the <sc>Lordsc> their God. They responded favorably to the message of the prophet Haggai, who spoke just as the <sc>Lordsc> their God had instructed him,<n id="4" /> and the people began to respect the <sc>Lordsc>.<n id="5" />

So the <sc>Lordsc> energized and encouraged<n id="1" /> Zerubbabel<n id="2" /> son of Shealtiel, governor of Judah, the high priest Joshua son of Jehozadak,<n id="3" /> and the whole remnant of the people.<n id="4" /> They came and worked on the temple of their God, the <sc>Lordsc> who rules over all.

On that day,&#8217;<n id="1" /> says the <sc>Lordsc> who rules over all, &#8216;I will take you, Zerubbabel son of Shealtiel, my servant,&#8217;<n id="2" /> says the <sc>Lordsc>, &#8216;and I will make you like a signet ring,<n id="3" /> for I have chosen you,&#8217; says the <sc>Lordsc> who rules over all.&#8221;<n id="4" />p>

In the second year after they had come to the temple of God in Jerusalem,<n id="1" /> in the second month, Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel and Jeshua the son of Jozadak initiated the work,<n id="2" /> along with the rest of their associates,<n id="3" /> the priests and the Levites, and all those who were coming to Jerusalem from the exile. They appointed<n id="4" /> the Levites who were at least twenty years old<n id="5" /> to take charge of the work on the <sc>Lordsc>&#8217;s temple.