Ezra 3:1

It was the seventh month after the people of Israel came back to their cities, when they gathered together as one man in Jerusalem.

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And when the seventh month was come, and the children of Israel were in the cities, the people gathered themselves together as one man to Jerusalem.

In Context

2Jeshua son of Jozadak and his brothers the priests, and Zerubbabel son of Shealtiel, and his brothers rose up and built the altar of the God of Israel to offer burnt offerings as it is written in the law of Moses the man of God.

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Cross References

Leviticus 16:29It will always be a statute for you that in the seventh month, on the tenth day of the month, you must humble yourselves and do no work, whether the native born or a foreigner who is living among you.

Leviticus 23:27“Now the tenth day of this seventh month is the Day of Atonement. It is to be a holy assembly, and you must humble yourselves and present to Yahweh an offering by fire.

Deuteronomy 16:16Three times in a year all your males must appear before Yahweh your God at the place that he will choose: at the Festival of Unleavened Bread, at the Festival of Weeks, and at the Festival of Shelters. No one will appear before Yahweh empty-handed;

Nehemiah 7:72The rest of the people gave twenty thousand darics of gold, and two thousand minas of silver, and sixty-seven priestly garments.

Nehemiah 8:1All the people gathered as one man in the open area in front of the Water Gate. They asked Ezra the scribe to bring the Book of the Law of Moses, which Yahweh had commanded Israel.

Zephaniah 3:9But then I will purify the lips of the peoples, 1 that all of them may call upon the name of Yahweh to serve him shoulder to shoulder. 1

Matthew Henry on Ezra 3:1

In the close of the foregoing chapter we left Israel in their cities, but we may well imagine what a bad posture their affairs were in, the ground untilled, the cities in ruins, all out of order; but here we have an account of the early care they took about the re-establishment of religion among them. Thus did they lay the foundation well, and begin their work at the right end. I. They set up an altar, and offered sacrifices upon it, kept the feasts, and contributed towards the rebuilding of the temple, ver. 1-7 .… Read the whole commentary →

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