I must beg the Reader very particularly to mark this verse. Here we find that before they begun, or even had power to begin, the foundation for the temple, the altar was set up. Was not this typical of Jesus? Is he not, and was he not ever, the Altar, the Sacrifice, and Priest? What a precious allusion then was this to him, in whom all sacrifices had their substance, and to whom they all referred.
Verse Ezra 3:2. _JESHUA THE SON OF JOZADAK_] He was grandson of Seraiah the high priest, who was put to death by Nebuchadnezzar, 2 Kings 25:18; 2 Kings 25:21. This Jeshua or Joshua was the first high...
Jeshua, the high priest, was the son of Jozadak, who was carried into captivity by Nebuchadnezzar 1 Chronicles 6:15. Zerubbabel was really the son of Pedaiah, Shealtiel’s (or Salathiel’s) younger brot...
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 BUILDING OF THE ALTAR FOR BURNT OFFERINGS. Ezra 3:1. the seventh month: presumably of the year of the return, 537 The seventh month is called Tisri in the Jewish calendar and is approximately equi...
JESHUA. The high priest. Spelled Joshua in Haggai 1:1; Haggai 2:2.Zechariah 3:1. JOZADAK. The son of Seraiah (1 Chronicles 6:14;...
_Then stood up … to offer_ Jeshua the High-priest (cf. Ezra 2:2) mentioned here in connexion with sacrifice, before Zerubbabel; in Ezra 3:8 after Zerubbabel in connexion with the work of rebuilding t...
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, an...
_THEN STOOD UP JESHUA THE SON OF JOZADAK, AND HIS BRETHREN THE PRIESTS, AND ZERUBBABEL THE SON OF SHEALTIEL, AND HIS BRETHREN, AND BUILDED THE ALTAR OF THE GOD OF ISRAEL, TO OFFER BURNT OFFERINGS THER...
JESHUA] called in Haggai 1:1; 'Joshua.' His father Jozadak had been carried into exile by Nebuchadnezzar (1 Chronicles 6:15). SON OF SHEALTIEL] In 1 Chronicles 3:19; Zerubbabel is called the son of Pe...
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...
BUILDED THE ALTAR. — Only as the beginning of their work. The Temple was, as it were, built around the altar, as the centre of all. MOSES THE MAN OF GOD. — Like David, Nehemiah 12:24; Nehemiah 12:36....
וַ יָּקָם֩ יֵשׁ֨וּעַ בֶּן ־יֹֽוצָדָ֜ק וְ אֶחָ
THE BUILDING OF THE ALTAR Ezra 2:61; Ezra 3:1 Throughout their history the true Israelites were eager to maintain their genealogy; wherever they were scattered, they carefully guarded their national...
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...
Then stood up Jeshua the son of Jozadak, and his brethren the priests, and Zerubbabel the (b) son of Shealtiel, and his brethren, and builded the altar of the God of Israel, to offer burnt offerings t...
_Josue, or Jesus, (Jeshua) the son of Josedec: he was the high priest at that time; (Challoner) the first after the captivity. --- Salathiel, by whom he was brought up, though he was born of Phadaia,...
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...
THEN STOOD UP JESHUA THE SON OF JOZADAK,.... Who was the high priest, and the proper person to give the lead in the following work: AND HIS BRETHREN THE PRIESTS; the common priests, very fit to join...
Then stood up Jeshua the son of Jozadak, and his brethren the priests, and Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, and his brethren, and builded the altar of the God of Israel, to offer burnt offerings there...
_Then stood up Jeshua the son of Jozadak_ He was the high- priest, called Joshua, Haggai 1:1. _And Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel _ That is, his grandson; for, properly speaking, he was the son of Pe...
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...
Then stood up Jeshua (or Joshua), the son of Jozadak, and his brethren, the priests, and Zerubbabel, the son of Shealtiel, the governor of the province, AND HIS BRETHREN, AND BUILDED THE ALTAR OF THE...
THE WORSHIP RESUMED...
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...
JESHUA: Or, Josua...
1-7 From the proceedings of the Jews on their arrival, let us learn to begin with God, and to do what we can in the worship of God, when we cannot do what we would. They could not at once have a temp...
JESHUA THE SON OF JOZADAK, the high priest. THE SON OF SHEALTIEL, i.e. the grandson; for he was the son of Pedaiah, 1 CHRONICLES 3:17. BUILT THE ALTAR; which was of more present and urgent necessity t...
Ezra 3:2 Jeshua H3442 son H1121 Jozadak H3136 brethren H251 priests H3548 Zerubbabel H2216 son H1121 Shealtiel H7597 brethren
THE FIRST OBSERVANCE OF THE FEASTS OF THE SEVENTH MONTH AFTER THE RETURN (EZRA 3:1). It is probable that this is the first of the major feasts that the arrivees had been in a position to celebrate. (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 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 3:2 BUILT THE ALTAR. The broken altar had to be rebuilt so sacrifices could once again be made. ⇐...
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...
§ 2. RESTORATION OF THE ALTAR OF BURNT SACRIFICE, AND CELEBRATION OF THE FEAST OF TABERNACLES. EXPOSITION RESTORATION OF THE ALTAR ...
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 3:17; 1 Chronicles 3:19; 2 Chronicles 6:6; Deuteronomy 12:5;...
Altar — Which was of more present necessity than the temple, both to make atonement to God for all their sins, and to obtain God's assistance for the building of the temple, and to strengthen their ow...