TSK - EZRA 3

  1  The altar is set up.
 4  Offerings renewed.
 7  Workmen employed in preparing materials.
 8  The foundations of the temple are laid in great joy and
    mourning.


VERSE 1
- the seventh.
   * Ex 23:14-17 Le 16:29; 23:24,27-44 Nu 29:1-40 Ne 8:2,14
- as one.
   * Jud 20:1 Ne 8:1 Zep 3:9 Ac 2:46; 4:32 1Co 1:10


VERSE 2 
 - Jeshua.
   * Hag 1:1,12,14; 2:2-4 Zec 3:1,8; 6:11
- Joshua the son of Josedech.  Zerubbabel.
   * Ezr 2:2 1Ch 3:17,19 Hag 2:21,23 Zec 4:6-10 Mt 1:12,13 Lu 3:27
- Zorobabel, Salathiel.  as it is written.
   * Ex 20:24,25 Nu 28:3-31 De 12:5-7 2Ch 6:6 Ps 78:68
  Bp. Patrick observes, that before the temple was built, there
  seems to have been a tabernacle pitched for Divine service, as
  was in David's time, not on mount Moriah, but mount Sion, to
  be used while the temple was building.  Let us learn hence 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 immediately
  have a temple, but they would not be without an altar.
  Wherever a Christian goes, if he carry not with him the
  sacrifices of prayer and praise, he is wanting in his duty;
  for he has an altar ever ready that sanctifies both the gift
  and the giver.


VERSE 3 
 - the altar.
   * 2Ch 4:1
- for fear.
   * Ezr 4:11-16; 8:21,22 Ps 27:1,2; 56:2-4
- even burnt.
   * Ex 29:38-42 Nu 28:2-8


VERSE 4 
 - the feast.
   * Ex 23:16 Le 23:34-36 Ne 8:14-17 Zec 14:16-19 Joh 7:2,37
- the daily.
   * Nu 29:12-38
- as the duty of every day required.  Heb. the matter of the
  day in his day.
   * Ex 5:13; 29:38 Jer 52:34 *marg:


VERSE 5 
 - the continual.
   * Ex 29:38-42 Nu 28:3-10,11,19,27; 29:2,8,13
- willingly.
   * Le 1:3 De 12:6,17 2Ch 29:31,32


VERSE 6 
 - first day of.
   * Le 23:23-25 Ne 8:18
- burnt offerings.
   * Le 23:12
- the foundation of the temple of the Lord was not yet laid.
  Heb. the temple of the Lord was not yet founded.


VERSE 7 
 - gave money.
   * 2Ki 12:11,12; 22:5,6 2Ch 24:12,13
- carpenters.  or, workmen.  meat.
   * 1Ki 5:6,9-11 2Ch 2:10-15 Eze 27:17 Ac 12:20
- Joppa
  Joppa, now Jaffa or Yaffa, one of the most ancient sea-ports
  in the world, is situated in a fine plain on the shore of the
  Mediterranean, between Jamnia south and Caesarea of Palestine
  north, 150 stadia from Antipatris, according to Josephus, 30
  miles south of Caesarea, 12 miles north of Ashdod, 9 miles
  west of Ramla, and 40 miles west of Jerusalem, according to
  modern authorities; and in lat. 32ø 50' long. 65ø 40'
  according to Ptolemy.  It is still a considerable town,
  containing about 4,000 or 5,000 souls, and occupying a
  circular eminence close to the seaside, with a citadel on the
  summit; the bottom of the hill being surrounded by a wall 12
  or 14 feet high, and two or three feet thick.  The environs
  are occupied by extensive gardens.

   * 2Ch 2:16 Jon 1:3 Ac 9:36; 10:5,6
- according.
   * Ezr 6:3-5


VERSE 8 
 - Zerubbabel.  See on ver.
   * :2
- twenty years old.
   * Nu 4:3 1Ch 23:24-32


VERSE 9 
 - Jeshua.
  Not Jeshua the high-priest, before mentioned, but another
  Jeshua, a Levite, mentioned in the parallel passage.

   * Ezr 2:40
- Judah
  Hodaviah, [H"wdavyƒh <\\S#1938h\\>,] is called Hodevah,
  [H"wdevƒh <\\S#1937h\\>,] by the elision of [Y"wd,] {yood,}
  and was probably named Judah, from the word having the same
  signification.

   * Ezr 2:40
- Hodaviah.
   * Ne 7:43
- Hodevah.
- together.  Heb. as one.


VERSE 10 
 - when the builders.
   * Zec 4:10
- they set.
   * Ex 28:40-42 1Sa 22:18 1Ch 15:27 Ne 12:24-26
- trumpets.
   * Nu 10:1-10 1Ch 15:24; 16:5,6,42
- the sons of Asaph.
   * 1Ch 6:39; 16:37; 25:1-7 2Ch 35:15
- after the ordinance.
   * 1Ch 6:31-48; 16:4-7; 23:5 2Ch 29:25,26


VERSE 11 
 - they sang.
   * Ex 15:21 Ne 12:24,40 Ps 24:7-10 Isa 6:3
- because.
   * 1Ch 16:34,41 2Ch 7:3 Ps 103:17; 106:1; 107:1; 135:3; 136:1-26
   * Ps 145:1-11 Jer 33:11 Lu 1:50
- shouted.
   * Jos 6:5,10,16 Ps 47:1,5 Isa 12:6; 44:23 Zec 9:9
- because.
   * Ps 102:13,14 Re 21:10-14


VERSE 12 
 - many.
   * Hag 2:3
- when the foundation.
   * Job 8:7 Isa 41:14; 60:22 Da 2:34,35 Zec 4:10 Mt 13:31,32
- wept.
   * Ps 126:6 Jer 31:8,9


VERSE 13 
 - So that.
  This sight must have been very affecting; a whole people, one
  part weeping aloud with sorrow, the other shouting aloud for
  joy; and on the same occasion too, in which both sides felt an
  equal interest.  The prophet Haggai (ch 1 2:1-9) comforted them
  on this occasion, by assuring them that the glory of this
  latter house should exceed that of the former, because the
  Lord would come to this temple, and fill it with His glory.

- the noise.
   * Jud 2:5
- shouted.
   * Ne 12:43 Ps 5:11 Jer 33:11 Zec 4:7 Lu 19:37-40
- and the noise.
   * Ex 32:17,18 1Sa 4:5 1Ki 1:40,45 Ps 100:1,2



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