| Ezra 3:8
| And in the second year *of their coming to the temple of God in Jerusalem, the second month, Zorobabel, the son of Salathiel, and Josue, the son of Josedec, and the rest of their brethren, the priests and Levites, and all that were come from the captivity to Jerusalem began, and they appointed Levites, from twenty years old and upward, to hasten forward the work of the Lord.
| Year of the World 3469. Work. Hebrew adds, "of the house." Josias had appointed the Levites overseers, 2 Paralipomenon 24:12. (Calmet)
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