Ezra 2:68-70

The Voice

⁶⁸ When some of the tribal leaders arrived at the Eternal’s temple in Jerusalem, they gave their offerings willingly, hoping to rebuild the True God’s house on the same site Solomon had used. ⁶⁹ Their gifts, which the treasury used to finance the construction of the new temple, amounted to about 1,000 pounds^[a] of gold, 3 tons^[b] of silver, and 100 priestly garments.

⁷⁰ From that time forward, the priests, the Levites, some of the people, the singers, the gatekeepers, the temple servants, and all Israel lived in their ancestral cities.