Nehemiah 12:43

Also that day they offered great sacrifices, and rejoiced ,.... Or many sacrifices, as Ben Melech interprets it; and these perhaps of the larger sort of cattle, oxen; and which, at least many of them, being peace offerings, the people feasted on them, so that it was a festival day:

for God had made them rejoice with great joy ; on account of the wall being set up all around, and so were in greater safety from their enemies:

the wives also and the children rejoiced ; while the priests blew the trumpets, and the singers sung and played on their instruments, the women and children gave loud shouts for joy:

so that the joy of Jerusalem was heard even afar off ; as at the laying of the foundation of the temple, Ezra 3:13 .