¹⁰ Now when the builders had ^(A)laid the foundation of the temple of the Lord, ^[a]the priests stood in their apparel with trumpets, and the Levites, the sons of Asaph, with cymbals, to praise the Lord ^(B)according to the ^[b]directions of King David of Israel.

²⁴ Then work on the house of God in Jerusalem was discontinued, and it was stopped until the second year of the reign of Darius king of Persia.