Ezra 3:4-6

4 ¹And they kept the Feast of Booths, ²as it is written, ³and offered the daily burnt offerings by number according to the rule, as each day required,

5 and after that the regular burnt ⁴offerings, the offerings at the new moon ⁵and at all the appointed feasts of the LORD, and the offerings of everyone who made a freewill offering to the LORD.

6 From the first day of the seventh month they began to offer burnt offerings to the LORD. But the foundation of the temple of the LORD was not yet laid.

Ezra 3:4-6 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. Zechariah 14:16; See Nehemiah 8:14-17
• 2. Exodus 23:16; Leviticus 23:34
• 3. See Numbers 29:12-38
• 4. See Numbers 28:11-15
• 5. Numbers 29:39