If men gather gold and silver or any valuable thing, and then see a desirable and beautiful woman,

Work on the temple is delayed

When the seventh month came and the Israelites were all in their own homes, they gathered together in the square near the first gate on the eastern side.

Some from the other neighboring peoples gathered with them. They erected the altar in its proper place (even though all the other neighboring peoples were hostile to them and were stronger than they were). They offered sacrifices and entirely burned offerings to the Lord at the proper morning and evening times.

I was encouraged by my God’s help, and I gathered people from Israel to go up with me.

Everyone who was moved by the word of the Lord of Israel gathered around me as I mourned over this unlawful deed, and I sat there depressed until the evening sacrifice.

While Ezra was praying and offering up his confession, weeping in the dust before the temple, a very large crowd of men, women, and youth from Jerusalem gathered around him. There was great weeping among the people.

An announcement was issued throughout Judea and Jerusalem to all who had returned from exile that they should gather at Jerusalem.

Then everyone from the tribe of Judah and the tribe of Benjamin gathered together at Jerusalem within three days; this was the twentieth day of the ninth month.

the whole crowd gathered together in the courtyard near the east gate of the temple.