Ezra 3:6

Ezra 3:6 in other versions

• King James Version (KJV)From the first day of the seventh month began they to offer burnt offerings unto the Lord. But the foundation of the temple of the Lord was not yet laid.
• New International Version (NIV)On the first day of the seventh month they began to offer burnt offerings to the Lord, though the foundation of the Lord’s temple had not yet been laid.
• English Standard Version (ESV)From the first day of the seventh month they began to offer burnt offerings to the Lord. But the foundation of the temple of the Lord was not yet laid.
• New King James Version (NKJV)From the first day of the seventh month they began to offer burnt offerings to the Lord, although the foundation of the temple of the Lord had not been laid.

Context of Ezra 3:6

4And they kept the feast of tabernacles, as it is written, and offered the daily burnt-offerings by number, according to the ordinance, as the duty of every day required; 5and afterward the continual burnt-offering, and the offerings of the new moons, and of all the set feasts of Jehovah that were consecrated, and of every one that willingly offered a freewill-offering unto Jehovah. From the first day of the seventh month began they to offer burnt-offerings unto Jehovah: but the foundation of the temple of Jehovah was not yet laid. 7They gave money also unto the masons, and to the carpenters; and food, and drink, and oil, unto them of Sidon, and to them of Tyre, to bring cedar-trees from Lebanon to the sea, unto Joppa, according to the grant that they had of Cyrus king of Persia. 8Now in the second year of their coming unto the house of God at Jerusalem, in the second month, began Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, and Jeshua the son of Jozadak, and the rest of their brethren the priests and the Levites, and all they that were come out of the captivity unto Jerusalem, and appointed the Levites, from twenty years old and upward, to have the oversight of the work of the house of Jehovah.

Ezra 3:6 word by word

מִיּ֤וֹם אֶחָד֙ לַחֹ֣דֶשׁ הַשְּׁבִיעִ֔י הֵחֵ֕לּוּ לְהַעֲל֥וֹת עֹל֖וֹת לַיהוָ֑ה וְהֵיכַ֥ל יְהוָ֖ה לֹ֥א יֻסָּֽד׃Read the interlinear

• dayיוֹםyôm · dayH3117
• seventhשְׁבִיעִיshebîy‛îy shebi‛îy · seventhH7637
• monthחֹ֫דֶשׁchôdesh · monthH2320
• beganחָלַלchâlal · to boreH2490
• offerעָלָה‛âlâh · to ascend: offer upH5927
• templeהֵיכָלhêykâl · templeH1964

Commentaries on Ezra 3:6

• Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 5-6The list of sacrifices, offered even before the temple's foundation was laid, showed the people's eagerness to worship God faithfully at every chance. They followed the law's instructions precisely. The new moon celebrations occurred on the first day of each Hebrew month. The sacrifices and trumpet blasts reminded the people of God's covenant with them (Numbers 10:10; 28:11–15). Voluntary offerings included gifts like money for building the temple (Exodus…Read the comment
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 4-74-6. They kept also the feast of tabernacles ... From the first day of the seventh month--They revived at that time the daily oblation, and it was on the fifteenth day of that month the feast of tabernacles was held.Read the comment

Topics related to Ezra 3:6

• Altar
• Daily Offering
• Ethanim
• Liberality
• Month
• Priest
• Temple
• Zerubbabel

In the dictionaries

• Altar
• Ordinance
• Apocalyptic Literature
• Atonement, Day of
• Ezra-Nehemiah
• Jerusalem
• Sacrifice
• Senaah
• Psalms, Book of

Commentaries on Ezra 3

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
• Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
• Tyndale Open Study Notes
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
• Rashi on Tanakh
• Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
• John Wesley’s Notes
• Darby Translation Notes
• Geneva Bible Translation Notes
• Kingcomments
• Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
• Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
• Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
• Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
• EGW Writings