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

3:12^a house

Hag. 2:3
3:11^a foundation

2 Chron. 3:3; cf. 2 Chron. 7:3
3:10^a sons

1 Chron. 16:4-6; 25:1-2
3:9^a one

Ezra 3:1
3:8^b twenty

1 Chron. 23:24
3:8^a Zerubbabel

Ezra 2:2; 4:3
3:7^c Cyrus

Ezra 1:2-3; 6:3
3:7^b cedar

2 Sam. 5:11; 1 Kings 5:6
3:7^a food

Acts 12:20
3:6^a foundation

Ezra 3:11
3:5^b appointed

Num. 29:39
3:5^a new

Num. 28:11-15
3:4^b daily

Num. 29:12-38
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.
3:3^a morning

Exo. 29:39; Num. 28:4
3:2^d man

Deut. 33:1
3:2^c burnt

Deut. 12:5-6
3:2^b Zerubbabel

Ezra 5:2; 1 Chron. 3:19; Matt. 1:12; Luke 3:27
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).
3:1^a one

Neh. 8:1; Judg. 20:1; Acts 2:46; 4:32