6:16a Then the people of Israel—the priests, the Levites, and the rest of the exiles—

¶ Afterwards, the people of Israel, that is, the priests, the temple workers of/from the clan of Levi and the other people who had returned,
-or-
¶ After ⌊they completed the house of God⌋, the sacrificers and the descendants of Levi and all the other people of Israel who had come back to Judah from Babylon

6:16b celebrated the dedication of the house of God with joy.

held a joyful ceremony to dedicate the temple.
-or-
dedicated the house of God with much joy.

© 2020 by SIL International®
Made available under the terms of a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License (CC BY-SA) creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0.
All Scripture quotations in this publication, unless otherwise indicated, are from The Holy Bible, Berean Standard Bible.
BSB is produced in cooperation with Bible Hub, Discovery Bible, OpenBible.com, and the Berean Bible Translation Committee.