Hebrew slaves return to Jerusalem -Bible

The Jewish people rejoicing on their return from captivity and on their laying the foundation of the second temple. Bible, Ezra III, 8: 'Now in the second year of their coming unto the house of God at Jerusalem, in the second month, began Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, and Jeshua the son of Jozadak, and the remnant of their brethren the priests and the Levites, and all that they were come out of captivity unto Jerusalem; and appointed the Levites, from twenty years old and upward, to set forward the work of the house of the LORD. ' Cassell's Illustrated Family Bible illustrated with more than nine hundred highly finished engravings. Cassell, Petter & Galpin. London, Paris and New York. 19th century