_THE ALTAR OF BURNT-OFFERINGS IS SET UP: THE FEAST OF TABERNACLES IS CELEBRATED: IN THE SECOND YEAR THE FOUNDATIONS OF THE TEMPLE ARE LAID, AMID SHOUTS OF JOY ON ONE HAND, AND ON THE OTHER, MUCH WEEPING OF THOSE WHO HAD SEEN THE FORMER TEMPLE._ _Before Christ 536._... [ Continue Reading ]
_VER._ 1. _WHEN THE SEVENTH MONTH WAS COME_— The seventh month, called _Tizri,_ answers in part to our September and October. The first day of the month Tizri was the beginning of the Jewish civil year; and on it was the feast of trumpets, which lasted for two days, when all labour and business was... [ Continue Reading ]
_VER._ 3. _FOR FEAR WAS UPON THEM,_ &C.— _Although they were afraid of the neighbouring people._ Houbigant.... [ Continue Reading ]
_VER._ 12. _BUT MANY—WEPT WITH A LOUD VOICE_— Not only because this temple was likely to prove far inferior to that of Solomon as to its outward structure; but because it was also to want those extraordinary marks of the divine favour wherewith the other temple was honoured. Both the temples, withou... [ Continue Reading ]