‏ Ezra 6:4

three rows.

1Ki 6:36

the expenses.

7:20-23; Ps 68:29; 72:10; Isa 49:23; 60:6-10; Re 12:16

‏ Ezra 6:8-18

I make a decree. Chal. by me a decree is made. the king's.

4; 4:16,20; 7:15-22; Ps 68:29-31; Hag 2:8

hindered. Chal. made to cease.

4:21,23; 5:5

young bullocks.

Le 1:3-5,10; 9:2; Ps 50:9-13

lambs.

Ex 29:38-42; Nu 28:1-29:40

wheat.

Le 2:1-16; Nu 15:4-31; 1Ch 9:29

salt.

Le 2:13; Mr 9:49

let it be given.

Isa 49:23

sweet savours. Chal. rest.

Ge 8:21; Le 1:9,13; Eph 5:2

pray.

7:23; Jer 29:7; 1Ti 2:1,2

whosoever.

7:26

timber.

Es 5:4; 7:10

hanged. Chal. destroyed. his house.

2Ki 9:37; 10:27; Da 2:5; 3:29

caused.

Ex 20:24; De 12:5,11; 16:2; 1Ki 9:3; 2Ch 7:16; Ps 132:13,14

destroy.

Ps 5:10; 21:8-10; 137:8,9; Isa 60:12; Ob 1:10; Zec 12:2-4

Ac 5:38,39; 9:5; Re 19:14-21

I Darius.

Es 3:14,15; 8:14

speed.

13; Ec 9:10

Tatnai.

4:9,23; 5:6

so they did.

Es 6:11; Job 5:12,13; Pr 29:26

And the elders.

3:8; 4:3

through.

5:1,2; Hag 1:12-14; 2:2-15; Zec 2:1-4:14; 6:1-15

finished it.

Zec 4:9

according.

Isa 44:28; Hag 1:8

commandment. Chal. decree. Cyrus.

13; 1:1-4; 4:24; 5:13

Artaxerxes.This was Artaxerxes, the third son and successor of Xerxes, surnamed [Makrocheir,] or Longimanus, or in Persian, {Ardsheer deeraz dest,} "Ardsheer the long-handed;" so called, according to the Greeks, from the extra-ordinary length of his hands, but according to the Easterners, from the extent of his dominions. He ascended the Persian throne, A.M. 3540, B.C. 464, and reigned forty-one years. He is said to have been the most handsome person of his age, and to have been a prince of a very mild and generous disposition.

7:1

A.M. 3489. B.C. 515. Adar.

Es 3:7,13; 8:12; 9:1,15,17,19,21

the children.

1Ch 9:2; Ne 7:73

children of the captivity. Chal. sons of the transportation.

4:1

the dedication.

1Ki 8:63; 2Ch 7:5,9; Joh 10:22

with joy.

22; 3:11,12; De 12:7; 1Ch 15:28; 2Ch 7:10; 30:23,26; Ne 8:10; 12:43

Ps 122:1; Php 4:4Having set up the worship of God in this dedication, they took care to keep it up, and made the book of Moses their rule, to which they had an eye in this establishment. Though the temple service could not now be performed with so much pomp and plenty as formerly, because of their poverty, yet no doubt it was performed with as much purity and close adherence to the Divine institutions as ever. No beauty is like the beauty of holiness.

offered.

8:35; Nu 7:2-89; 1Ki 8:63,64; 1Ch 16:1-3; 2Ch 7:5; 29:31-35

a sin offering.

Le 4:3,13,14,22,23,28; 2Ch 29:21-23

according to.Though the tribes of Benjamin and Judah, with the priests and Levites, formed the bulk of the people, yet many from the other tribes had returned with them from captivity.

1Ki 18:31; Lu 22:30; Re 7:4-8; 21:12

the priests.

1Ch 23:1-26:32; 2Ch 35:4,5

as it is written. Chal. according to the writing.

Nu 3:6; 8:9-26
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