Unto the house of God - i. e., to the place where the house of God had been, and where God was believed still to have His special dwelling.
And appointed the Levites - This is the emphatic clause of the present verse. Though so small a number of Levites had returned from Babylon Ezra 2:40, yet they were especially singled out to be entrusted with the task of superintending and advancing the building of the temple.
Verse Ezra 3:8. _IN THE SECOND YEAR_] The previous time had been employed in clearing the ground, felling timber, hewing stones, and transporting them to the place, and making other necessary preparat...
CHAPTER 3 _ 1. The altar set up (Ezra 3:1)_ 2. The feast of tabernacles celebrated (Ezra 3:4) 3. The sacrifices brought (Ezra 3:5) 4. The foundation of the temple laid ...
THE LAYING OF THE TEMPLE FOUNDATION AND THE JOY OF THE PEOPLE. Ezra 3:7. masons. carpenters: those referred to were the men who hewed the stone from the quarries and those who prepared the rough stone...
IN THE SECOND YEAR OF THEIR COMING... THE SECOND MONTH. They came in the spring and this was the second fall after. The old Jewish year had begun with the spring, but in the Captivity the custom had...
GOD. Hebrew. _Elohim._ (with Art.) the [true] God. App-4. set forward. oversee....
The Foundation of the Temple 8. The Second Year of the Return. _of their coming unto the house of God at Jerusalem_ cf. Ezra 2:68. Where the old Temple had been and the new was to be. _began_ The me...
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 Jesh...
_NOW IN THE SECOND YEAR OF THEIR COMING UNTO THE HOUSE OF GOD AT JERUSALEM, IN THE SECOND MONTH, BEGAN ZERUBBABEL THE SON OF SHEALTIEL, AND JESHUA THE SON OF JOZADAK, AND THE REMNANT OF THEIR BRETHREN...
3:8 superintend (e-67) Or 'set forward.'...
IN THE SECOND YEAR] probably 536 b.c. The second month would correspond to April-May....
THE REFOUNDING OF THE TEMPLE 1. The seventh month] i.e. Sept.-Oct. of (probably) 537 b.c....
THE *JEWS RETURN TO JERUSALEM EZRA _ROBERT BRYCE_ CHAPTER 3 V1 When the *people of Israel were living in their towns, they all met in Jerusalem together. It was the 7th month. Verse 1 The people...
IN THE SECOND YEAR. — The second year of Cyrus, B.C. 537, was their second year in the holy place. IN THE SECOND MONTH. — Zif, chosen apparently because it was the same month in which Solomon laid th...
וּ בַ † שָּׁנָ֣ה הַ שֵּׁנִ֗ית לְ...
THE FOUNDATION OF THE TEMPLE LAID Ezra 3:8 Foundation-laying is not always pleasant work. It means toil under ground, down in the trenches, unnoticed and unknown, and those who begin are often not pe...
The leaders in this return were evidently conscious of the matters of real importance in the life of the people. Directly they were settled in their cities, the altar of God was established at Jerusal...
Now in the second year of their coming unto the house of God at Jerusalem, in the (e) second month, began Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, and Jeshua the son of Jozadak, and the remnant of their breth...
_Work. Hebrew adds, "of the house." Josias had appointed the Levites overseers, 2 Paralipomenon xxiv. 12. (Calmet)_...
If the Reader will peruse with this account what Haggai hath recorded concerning the building of the temple, the one scripture will, as it is designed, throw great light upon the other. And this will...
In the seventh month [1], the children of Israel gather themselves together at Jerusalem, each one going up from the place where he dwelt. The first thing which they do there, under the direction of J...
NOW IN THE SECOND YEAR OF THEIR COMING UNTO THE HOUSE OF GOD AT JERUSALEM,.... The place where it formerly stood; the Jews seem to have set out from Babylon, in the spring of the preceding year, as it...
Now in the second year of their coming unto the house of God at Jerusalem, in the second month, began Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, and Jeshua the son of Jozadak, and the remnant of their brethren...
_In the second month began Zerubbabel_, &c. The building of the temple was begun as soon as ever the season of the year would permit, and as soon as they had ended the solemnities of the passover. The...
1 The Altar is set vp. 4 Offerings frequented. 7 Workmen prepared. 8 The foundations of the Temple are laid in great ioy & mourning. 1 AND when the seuenth moneth was come, and the children of Isr...
THE FOUNDATION OF THE TEMPLE LAID...
Now, in the second year of their coming unto the house of God at Jerusalem, in the second month, about in April or the beginning of May, BEGAN ZERUBBABEL, THE SON OF SHEALTIEL, by whom he had been bro...
THE ALTAR AND SACRIFICES RESUMED (vv. 1-8) Though the building of the temple did not begin until the second month of the second year (v. 8), the children of Israel gathered together "as one man" in...
8-13 There was a remarkable mixture of affections upon laying the foundation of the temple. Those that only knew the misery of having no temple at all, praised the Lord with shouts of joy. To them, e...
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Ezra 3:8 second H8145 month H2320 second H8145 year H8141 coming H935 (H8800) house H1004 God H430 Jerusalem...
THE PREPARATION OF THE FOUNDATIONS FOR THE NEW TEMPLE AND THE REACTION OF THE PEOPLE (EZRA 3:8). In the seventh month of the first year of their ‘coming to the house of God at Jerusalem' the returnees...
SECOND MONTH That is, May....
CONTENTS: Altar set up and temple foundations relaid. Worship established. CHARACTERS: God, Zerubbabel, Jeshua. CONCLUSION: To see any branch of God's work reestablished after long desolations canno...
Ezra 3:1. _The seventh month,_ and the tenth day was the great and holy day of atonement, as explained in Leviticus 16. They had left Babylon in the spring; and being four months on their journey, the...
_From the first day of the seventh month began they to offer burnt-offerings unto the Lord._ THE FULL ESTABLISHMENT OF RELIGIOUS SERVICES PRECEDES SHE BUILDING OF THE TEMPLE A weighty truth is enshri...
_And when the seventh month was come._ REBUILDING THE TEMPLE I. They began by re-establishing the worship and service of the holy place. They set up an altar, and offered the daily sacrifice. A wise...
EZRA—NOTE ON EZRA 3:1 The Returned Exiles Rebuild the Temple on Its Original Site. The book of Ezra 1:1 spans several generations. The returnees begin rebuilding, encounter resistance, an
EZRA—NOTE ON EZRA 3:8 Work begins with laying the foundation in the SECOND YEAR of the return (c. 537 B.C.). The SECOND MONTH, Ziv (1 Kings
CRITICAL AND EXPLANATORY NOTES.] This chapter contains— 1. The rebuilding of the altar (Ezra 3:1_ a_). 2. The renewal of the sacrificial worship and of the observance of the religious festivals (Ezra...
§ 3. REBUILDING OF THE TEMPLE AND OPPOSITION MADE TO IT. EXPOSITION LAYING OF THE FOUNDATION OF THE TEMPLE AND CEREMONIAL ON...
And when the seventh month was come, the children of Israel were in the cities, the people gathered themselves together as one man to Jerusalem. Then stood up Jeshua the son of Jozadak, and his brothe...
1 Chronicles 23:24; Ezra 3:2; Numbers 4:3...