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Ezra 3:11
They sang together. — They answered each other in chorus, or antiphonally.
Shouted. — As afterwards in religious acclamation.
They sang together. — They answered each other in chorus, or antiphonally.
Shouted. — As afterwards in religious acclamation.
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...
AND THEY SANG BY COURSE IN PRAISING. This will be better understood by reading 2 Chronicles 5:11-14. In the account of the dedication the re given we are told how the Levites, the singers, of the fami...
MERCY. lovingkindness, or grace. SHOUTED WITH. GREAT SHOUT. Figure of speech _Polyptoton._ App-6....
_And they sung together by course_ R.V. AND THEY SANG ONE TO ANOTHER, literally -and they answered", the same word as is rendered -answered" in Ezra 10:12; Nehemiah 8:6. The traditional interpretation...
DISCOURSE: 433 THE REBUILDING OF THE TEMPLE Ezra 3:11. All the people shouted with a great shout, when they praised the Lord, because the foundation of the house of the Lord was laid. But many of the...
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...
_AND THEY SANG TOGETHER BY COURSE IN PRAISING AND GIVING THANKS UNTO THE LORD; BECAUSE HE IS GOOD, FOR HIS MERCY ENDURETH FOR EVER TOWARD ISRAEL. AND ALL THE PEOPLE SHOUTED WITH A GREAT SHOUT, WHEN TH...
3:11 alternately (b-4) See Note, Psalms 119:172 ....
TOGETHER] RV 'one to another': i. e. antiphonally....
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...
וַֽ֠ יַּעֲנוּ בְּ הַלֵּ֨ל וּ בְ הֹודֹ֤ת
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...
There is an uncommon degree of sweetness in this account. The mercy of God endureth forever. Surely this mercy is Jesus. And did not the Israelites consider it so when they sung the hymn? Jesus is the...
_THE ENDURING MERCY_ ‘Praising and giving thanks unto the Lord; because He is good, for his mercy endureth for ever toward Israel,’ etc. Ezra 3:11 Notice four marks or features in the book of Ezra....
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...
AND THEY SANG TOGETHER BY COURSE,.... They sang by turns in responses, and answered one another, as the word signifies; when one company had performed their part, another took theirs: IN PRAISING AND...
And they sang together by course in praising and giving thanks unto the LORD; because [he is] good, for his mercy [endureth] for ever toward Israel. And all the people shouted with a great shout, when...
_And they sang together by course_ That is, answered one another alternately. _And all the people shouted with a great shout_ The people were very differently affected upon this occasion. Those that h...
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...
And they sang together by course, in antiphonal chorus chanting, IN PRAISING AND GIVING THANKS UNTO THE LORD, BECAUSE HE IS GOOD, FOR HIS MERCY ENDURETH FOREVER TOWARD ISRAEL, a section taken from one...
THE FOUNDATION OF THE TEMPLE LAID...
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...
No text from Poole on this verse....
Ezra 3:11 responsively H6030 (H8799) praising H1984 (H8763) thanks H3034 (H8687) LORD H3068 good H2896 mercy...
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...
Ezra 3:11 Notice four marks or features in the book of Ezra. I. The faithful people of God set up the altar on its bases. The foundation of the Temple was not yet laid; the walls were all down, the h...
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...
_And they sang together by course._ RELIGIOUS FEELING PROMPTS TO PRAISE During the persecution in Madagascar, a number of native Christians would assemble at midnight in the house of the missionary f...
_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
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 16:34; 1 Chronicles 16:41; 2 Chronicles 7:3; Exodus 15:21;...
Sung — That everlasting hymn, which will never be out of date, and to which our tongue should never be out of tune, the burden of Psalms 136:1. Whatever our condition is, let it be owned, that God is...