Ezra 3:7-8

7 Then they gave money to the masons and carpenters, and ¹food, drink and oil to the Sidonians and to the Tyrians, ²to bring cedar wood from Lebanon to the sea at ³Joppa, according to the permission they had from ⁴Cyrus king of Persia.

Temple Restoration Begun

8 Now in the second year of their coming to the house of God at Jerusalem in the second month, ⁵Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel and Jeshua the son of Jozadak and the rest of their brothers the priests and the Levites, and all who came from the captivity to Jerusalem, began the work and ⁶appointed the Levites from twenty years and older to oversee the work of the house of the LORD.

Ezra 3:7-8 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.

Cross References

• 1. 2 Chronicles 2:10; Acts 12:20
• 2. 2 Chronicles 2:16
• 3. Acts 9:36
• 4. Ezra 1:2; Ezra 6:3
• 5. Ezra 3:2; Ezra 4:3
• 6. 1 Chronicles 23:4, 24

Footnotes

• [a]. Lit "of"