8 And in the second year of their coming to the house of the [true] God at Jerusalem, in the second month,+ Ze·rubʹba·bel+ the son of She·alʹti·el+ and Jeshʹu·a+ the son of Je·hozʹa·dak and the rest of their brothers, the priests and the Levites, and all those who had come out of the captivity+ to Jerusalem started; and they now put in positions the Levites+ from twenty years of age upward to act as supervisors over the work of the house of Jehovah.+

2 It was then that Ze·rubʹba·bel+ the son of She·alʹti·el*+ and Jeshʹu·a+ the son of Je·hozʹa·dak got up and started to rebuild the house of God, which was in Jerusalem; and with them there were God’s prophets+ giving them aid.

12 And Ze·rubʹba·bel+ the son of She·alʹti·el, and Joshua the son of Je·hozʹa·dak+ the high priest,* and all the remaining ones of the people began to listen to the voice of Jehovah their God,*+ and to the words of Hagʹgai+ the prophet, as Jehovah their God had sent him; and the people began to fear because of Jehovah.+

4 “‘But now be strong, O Ze·rubʹba·bel,’ is the utterance of Jehovah, ‘and be strong,+ O Joshua the son of Je·hozʹa·dak the high priest.’

“‘And be strong, all YOU people of the land,’* is the utterance of Jehovah, ‘and work.’+

“‘For I am with YOU people,’+ is the utterance of Jehovah of armies.

3 And he proceeded to show me Joshua*+ the high priest standing before the angel* of Jehovah, and Satan*+ standing at his right hand in order to resist+ him.