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Ezra 3:1-7

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Sacrifice Restored

1 By the seventh month, the Israelites had settled in their towns, and the people gathered together in Jerusalem.
2 Jeshua son of Jozadak and his brothers the priests along with Zerubbabel son of Shealtiel and his brothers began to build the altar of Israel's God in order to offer burnt offerings on it, as it is written in the law of Moses the man of God.
3 They set up the altar on its foundation and offered burnt offerings for the morning and evening on it to the Lord even though they feared the surrounding peoples.[a]
4 They celebrated the Festival of Booths as prescribed, and [offered] burnt offerings each day, based on the number specified by ordinance for each festival day.[b]
5 After that, [they offered] the regular burnt offering[c] and the offerings for the beginning of each month[d][e]and for all the Lord's appointed holy occasions, as well as the freewill offerings brought to[f] the Lord.
6 On the first day of the seventh month they began to offer burnt offerings to the Lord, even though the foundation of the Lord's temple had not [yet] been laid.
7 They gave money to the stonecutters and artisans, and [gave] food, drink, and oil to the people of Sidon and Tyre, so they could bring cedar wood from Lebanon to Joppa by sea, according to the authorization [given] them by King Cyrus of Persia.
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Ezra 3:1-7 Meaning and Commentary

INTRODUCTION TO EZRA 3

This chapter relates how that the people of Israel returned from captivity, gathered to Jerusalem, and set up the altar, where sacrifices were offered, Ezr 3:1-3, and kept the feast of tabernacles, and offered the sacrifices of that, besides the daily sacrifice, and of other festivals; and contributed to the workmen that prepared for the building of the temple, Ezr 3:4-7 and began it by laying the foundation of it; which to some was matter of joy, to others of grief, on different accounts, Ezr 3:8-13.

Taken from John Gill's Exposition of the Bible
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Footnotes 6

  • [a] Ex 29:39
  • [b] Nm 29:12-38
  • [c] Ex 29:38-43; Nm 28:3
  • [d] Lit for the new moons
  • [e] Nm 28:11-15; 29:6
  • [f] Lit well as those of everyone making a freewill offering to
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