* the children.
  1Ch 9:2  Ne 7:73 
 * children of the captivity.  Chal. sons of the transportation.
  4:1 
 * the dedication.
  1Ki 8:63  2Ch 7:5,9  Joh 10:22 
 * with joy.
  22  3:11,12  De 12:7  1Ch 15:28  2Ch 7:10  30:23,26  Ne 8:10  12:43 
  Ps 122:1  Php 4:4 
   Having set up the worship of God in this dedication, they took
   care to keep it up, and made the book of Moses their rule, to
   which they had an eye in this establishment.  Though the
   temple service could not now be performed with so much pomp
   and plenty as formerly, because of their poverty, yet no doubt
   it was performed with as much purity and close adherence to
   the Divine institutions as ever.  No beauty is like the beauty
   of holiness.