Ezra 3:13 meaning and explanation
The people could not distinguish the shouts of joy from the sound of weeping, because the people were making so much noise. And the sound was heard from afar.
Ezra 3:13, Berean Standard Bible
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Ezra 3 describes the returned exiles rebuilding the altar and laying the temple foundation under Zerubbabel and the high priest Jeshua. When the foundation was laid, younger people shouted for joy while older priests and family heads who remembered Solomon's temple wept aloud, so the two sounds blended together.
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