⁹ When they came to Chidon’s threshing floor,^(A) Uzzah reached out to hold the ark because the oxen had stumbled.

Rebuilding the Temple

⁸ In the second month of the second year after they arrived at God’s house in Jerusalem, Zerubbabel son of Shealtiel, Jeshua son of Jozadak,^(A) and the rest of their brothers, including the priests, the Levites, and all who had returned to Jerusalem from the captivity, began to build. They appointed the Levites who were twenty years old or more to supervise the work on the Lord’s house.^(B)

12 These^(A) are the priests and Levites^(B) who went up with Zerubbabel^(C) son of Shealtiel and with Jeshua:

² “Speak to Zerubbabel son of Shealtiel, governor of Judah, to the high priest Joshua son of Jehozadak, and to the remnant of the people:

⁶ So he answered me, “This is the word of the Lord to Zerubbabel: ‘Not by strength or by might, but by my Spirit,’^(A) says the Lord of Armies.