1. Now when the seventh month came, after the Israelites had settled in their cities, the people gathered as one in Jerusalem.
2. Then Jeshua, son of Jozadak, together with his kinsmen the priests, and Zerubbabel, son of Shealtiel, together with his kinsmen, began building the altar of the God of Israel in order to offer on it the burnt offerings prescribed in the law of Moses, the man of God.