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Temple Restoration Begins

By the seventh month, the Israelites had settled in their towns, and the people assembled as one man in Jerusalem.

Then Jeshua son of Jozadak and his fellow priests, along with Zerubbabel son of Shealtiel and his associates, began to build the altar of the God of Israel to sacrifice burnt offerings on it, as it is written in the Law of Moses the man of God. They set up the altar on its foundation and sacrificed burnt offerings on it to the LORD—both the morning and evening burnt offerings—even though they feared the people of the land.

They also celebrated the Feast of Tabernacles in accordance with what is written, and they offered burnt offerings daily based on the number prescribed for each day.

After that, they presented the regular burnt offerings and those for New Moons and for all the appointed sacred feasts of the LORD, as well as all the freewill offerings brought to the LORD.

On the first day of the seventh month, the Israelites began to offer burnt offerings to the LORD, although the foundation of the temple of the LORD had not been laid. They gave money to the masons and carpenters, and food and drink and oil to the people of Sidon and Tyre to bring cedar logs from Lebanon to Joppa by sea, as authorized by Cyrus king of Persia.

In the second month of the second year after they had arrived at the house of God in Jerusalem, Zerubbabel son of Shealtiel, Jeshua son of Jozadak, and the rest of their associates including the priests, the Levites, and all who had returned to Jerusalem from the captivity, began the work. They appointed Levites twenty years of age or older to supervise the construction of the house of the LORD. So Jeshua and his sons and brothers, Kadmiel and his sons (descendants of Yehudah), and the sons of Henadad and their sons and brothers—all Levites—joined together to supervise those working on the house of God.

When the builders had laid the foundation of the temple of the LORD, the priests in their apparel with trumpets, and the Levites (the sons of Asaph) with cymbals, took their positions to praise the LORD, as David king of Israel had prescribed. And they sang responsively with praise and thanksgiving to the LORD:

“For He is good; for His loving devotion to Israel endures forever.”

Then all the people gave a great shout of praise to the LORD, because the foundation of the house of the LORD had been laid.

Remember Sports: Supervise

Absolutely love Remember Sports since finding them back in 2015 under their original name Sports. They've released four solid albums, with everything being re-released under the current Remember Sports name and repressed to vinyl in 2019. This new track comes off a 4 track digital Leap Day EP filmed on mini-DV (y'know, those tiny little cassettes used in video cameras in, like, 2003).

“I wrote the EP while I was working at an elementary school, which made me think a lot about my childhood, like what I would have wanted it to look like, and how it's fed into the way I am now. I was also thinking a lot about what it means to care for people, myself included. ‘Supervise’ in particular was the song that most directly deals with those themes, and is me meditating on how I can give myself the same care that I gave to the kids at my school, who I grew to be more fond of than I expected when I first took the job. It felt right to ask some of those kids to star in the video. I wanted to show kids and adults playing and being kids together. I think those two separate identities are still related, as much as we try to act like grown ups in our everyday lives, especially when we feel overwhelmed by responsibility. Working at that school was hard in a lot of ways, but something I loved about it was how often it reminded me to move around the world with a sense of wonderment and joy.” -Carmen Perry