The Bible — notes and cross-references in Ezra | Interpretation and commentary to chapter 3

3:1^a one

Neh. 8:1; Judg. 20:1; Acts 2:46; 4:32
3:2^1a Jeshua

Neh. 12:1, 7; cf. Hag. 1:1, 12, 14; 2:2, 4; Zech. 3:1, 3, 6, 8-9

I.e., Joshua the high priest (cf. Hag. 1:1 and Zech. 3:1).
3:2^b Zerubbabel

Ezra 5:2; 1 Chron. 3:19; Matt. 1:12; Luke 3:27
3:2^c burnt

Deut. 12:5-6
3:2^d man

Deut. 33:1
3:3^a morning

Exo. 29:39; Num. 28:4
3:4^1a Feast

Lev. 23:34; Neh. 8:14-17; Zech. 14:16

The keeping of the Feast of Tabernacles and the offering of the daily burnt offerings and the offerings of the new moons and of all the appointed feasts of Jehovah (vv. 4-6a) indicate that Israel recovered the worship of God, which had been lost for at least seventy years.
3:4^b daily

Num. 29:12-38
3:5^a new

Num. 28:11-15
3:5^b appointed

Num. 29:39
3:6^a foundation

Ezra 3:11
3:7^a food

Acts 12:20
3:7^b cedar

2 Sam. 5:11; 1 Kings 5:6
3:7^c Cyrus

Ezra 1:2-3; 6:3
3:8^a Zerubbabel

Ezra 2:2; 4:3
3:8^b twenty

1 Chron. 23:24
3:9^a one

Ezra 3:1
3:10^a sons

1 Chron. 16:4-6; 25:1-2
3:11^a foundation

2 Chron. 3:3; cf. 2 Chron. 7:3
3:12^a house

Hag. 2:3