Chapter Three PRELIMINARY QUESTIONS 1. How much time has passed since the events beginning in Ezra 1:1? 2. How much time is consumed by the events in Ezra three? 3. According to Ezra 3:1, the people gathered as one man. Do you think this means that everyone came, or that those who came had one... [ Continue Reading ]
II. The Temple Is Rebuilt (Ezra 3:1 to Ezra 6:22) A. The altar is built, and the foundation laid. 1. The altar and the sacrifice are restored. TEXT, EZRA 3:1-7 1 Now when the seventh month came, and the sons of Israel were in the cities, the people gathered together as one man to Jerusalem. 2... [ Continue Reading ]
2. The foundation of the new temple is laid. TEXT, EZRA 3:8-13 8 Now in the second year of their coming to the house of God at Jerusalem in the second month, Zeruhbabel 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... [ Continue Reading ]