¹⁷ and the sons of Jeconiah, the ^(A)captive: ^(B)Shealtiel his son,

² Then arose Jeshua the son of Jozadak, with his fellow priests, and ^(A)Zerubbabel the son of ^(B)Shealtiel with his kinsmen, and they built the altar of the God of Israel, to offer burnt offerings on it, ^(C)as it is written in the Law of Moses the ^(D)man of God.

¹² And after the deportation to Babylon: ^(A)Jechoniah was the father of ^(B)Shealtiel,^[a] and ^(C)Shealtiel the father of Zerubbabel,

^2 (A)Then Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel and ^(B)Jeshua the son of Jozadak arose and began to rebuild the house of God that is in Jerusalem, and the prophets of God were ^(C)with them, supporting them.

Rebuilding the Temple

⁸ Now in the second year after their coming to the house of God at Jerusalem, in the second month, ^(A)Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel and ^(B)Jeshua the son of Jozadak made a beginning, together with the rest of their kinsmen, the priests and the Levites and all who had come to Jerusalem from the captivity. They ^(C)appointed the Levites, from twenty years old and upward, to ^(D)supervise the work of the house of the Lord.