Ezra 3:4

Ezra 3:4 in other versions

• King James Version (KJV)They kept also the feast of tabernacles, as it is written, and offered the daily burnt offerings by number, according to the custom, as the duty of every day required;
• New International Version (NIV)Then in accordance with what is written, they celebrated the Festival of Tabernacles with the required number of burnt offerings prescribed for each day.
• English Standard Version (ESV)And they kept the Feast of Booths, as it is written, and offered the daily burnt offerings by number according to the rule, as each day required,
• New King James Version (NKJV)They also kept the Feast of Tabernacles, as it is written, and offered the daily burnt offerings in the number required by ordinance for each day.

Context of Ezra 3:4

2Then Jeshua the son of Jozadak and his priestly colleagues and Zerubbabel son of Shealtiel and his colleagues started to build the altar of the God of Israel so they could offer burnt offerings on it as required by the law of Moses the man of God. 3They established the altar on its foundations, even though they were in terror of the local peoples, and they offered burnt offerings on it to the Lord, both the morning and the evening offerings. They observed the Festival of Temporary Shelters as required and offered the proper number of daily burnt offerings according to the requirement for each day. 5Afterward they offered the continual burnt offerings and those for the new moons and those for all the holy assemblies of the Lord and all those that were being voluntarily offered to the Lord. 6From the first day of the seventh month they began to offer burnt offerings to the Lord. However, the Lord’s temple was not at that time established.

Ezra 3:4 word by word

וַֽיַּעֲשׂ֛וּ אֶת־חַ֥ג הַסֻּכּ֖וֹת כַּכָּת֑וּב וְעֹלַ֨ת י֤וֹם בְּיוֹם֙ בְּמִסְפָּ֔ר כְּמִשְׁפַּ֖ט דְּבַר־י֥וֹם בְּיוֹמֽוֹ׃Read the interlinear

Words taken from the KJV.

• They keptעָשָׂה‛âώâh · to make: doH6213
• also the feastחַגchag châg · feastH2282
• of tabernaclesסֻכָּהsûkkâh · boothH5521
• writtenכָּתַבkâthab · to writeH3789
• the dailyיוֹםyôm · dayH3117
• burnt offeringsעֹלָה‛ôlâh ‛ôlâh · burnt offeringH5930
• by numberמִסְפָּרmispâr · numberH4557
• according to the customמִשְׁפָּטmishpâţ · justice: judgementH4941
• as the dutyדָּבָרdâbâr · word: portionH1697

Cross-references for Ezra 3:4

• Exodus 23:16“You are also to observe the Feast of Harvest, the firstfruits of your labors that you have sown in the field, and the Feast of Ingathering at the end of the year when you have gathered in your harvest out of the field.
• Leviticus 23:34“Tell the Israelites, ‘On the fifteenth day of this seventh month is the Festival of Temporary Shelters for seven days to the Lord.
• Nehemiah 8:14They discovered written in the law that the lord had commanded through Moses that the Israelites should live in temporary shelters during the festival of the seventh month,
• Zechariah 14:16Then all who survive from all the nations that came to attack Jerusalem will go up annually to worship the King, the Lord who rules over all, and to observe the Feast of Tabernacles.
• John 7:2Now the Jewish feast of Tabernacles was near.
• Numbers 29:12“‘On the fifteenth day of the seventh month you are to have a holy assembly; you must do no ordinary work, and you must keep a festival to the Lord for seven days.
• Exodus 5:13The slave masters were pressuring them, saying, “Complete your work for each day, just like when there was straw!”
• Exodus 29:38“Now this is what you are to prepare on the altar every day continually: two lambs a year old.
• Jeremiah 52:34He was given daily provisions by the king of Babylon for the rest of his life until the day he died.

Commentaries on Ezra 3:4

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 4They kept also the feast of tabernacles, as it is written - This began on the fifteenth day of the seventh month; but they had begun the regular offerings from the first day of this month, Ezra 3:6. And these were religiously continued all the time they were building the temple.Read the comment
• Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 4The seven-day Festival of Shelters, as described in the Law (Leviticus 23:33–36; Numbers 29:12–38; Deuteronomy 16:13–16), reminded people of God's guidance and care during the forty years the nation lived in tents while traveling from Egypt to the promised land. This festival was especially meaningful to those who had recently made a similar journey from a foreign land, living in tents as they traveled to the promised land.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 3:4

• Altar
• Daily Offering
• Liberality
• Priest
• Tabernacles, Feast of
• Temple
• Zerubbabel

In the dictionaries

• Ordinance
• Apocalyptic Literature
• Atonement, Day of
• Custom (2)
• Duty
• 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