Ezra · WEB-C
Ezra
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When the seventh month had come, and the children of Israel were in the cities, the people gathered themselves together as one man to Jerusalem. See also: Acts 4:32Leviticus 23:241 Corinthians 1:10Then Jeshua the son of Jozadak stood up with his brothers the priests and Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel and his relatives, and built the altar of the God of Israel, to offer burnt offerings on it, as it is written in the law of Moses the man of God. See also: Luke 3:27Haggai 1:11 Chronicles 3:17In spite of their fear because of the peoples of the surrounding lands, they set the altar on its base; and they offered burnt offerings on it to the LORD, even burnt offerings morning and evening. See also: Numbers 28:2-8Ezra 4:42 Chronicles 4:1They kept the feast of booths, as it is written, and offered the daily burnt offerings by number, according to the ordinance, as the duty of every day required; See also: Exodus 23:16Numbers 29:12-38Nehemiah 8:14-17and afterward the continual burnt offering, the offerings of the new moons, of all the set feasts of the LORD that were consecrated, and of everyone who willingly offered a free will offering to the LORD. See also: Numbers 29:39Numbers 28:27Deuteronomy 12:6From the first day of the seventh month, they began to offer burnt offerings to the LORD; but the foundation of the LORD’s temple was not yet laid. They also gave money to the masons and to the carpenters. They also gave food, drink, and oil to the people of Sidon and Tyre to bring cedar trees from Lebanon to the sea, to Joppa, according to the grant that they had from Cyrus King of Persia. See also: 1 Kings 5:6Acts 12:20Acts 9:36Now in the second year of their coming to God’s house at Jerusalem, in the second month, Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, Jeshua the son of Jozadak, and the rest of their brothers the priests and the Levites, and all those who had come out of the captivity to Jerusalem, began the work and appointed the Levites, from twenty years old and upward, to have the oversight of the work of the LORD’s house. See also: Ezra 4:31 Chronicles 23:4Numbers 4:3Then Jeshua stood with his sons and his brothers, Kadmiel and his sons, the sons of Judah, together to have the oversight of the workmen in God’s house: the sons of Henadad, with their sons and their brothers the Levites. See also: Ezra 2:40Ezra 3:8Nehemiah 7:43When the builders laid the foundation of the LORD’s temple, they set the priests in their vestments with trumpets, with the Levites the sons of Asaph with cymbals, to praise the LORD, according to the directions of David king of Israel. See also: 1 Chronicles 25:1-71 Chronicles 15:271 Chronicles 16:37They sang to one another in praising and giving thanks to the LORD, “For he is good, for his loving kindness endures forever toward Israel.” All the people shouted with a great shout, when they praised the LORD, because the foundation of the LORD’s house had been laid. See also: Psalms 106:11 Chronicles 16:34Psalms 107:1But many of the priests and Levites and heads of fathers’ households, the old men who had seen the first house, when the foundation of this house was laid before their eyes, wept with a loud voice. Many also shouted aloud for joy, See also: Haggai 2:3Zechariah 4:10Psalms 126:6so that the people could not discern the noise of the shout of joy from the noise of the weeping of the people; for the people shouted with a loud shout, and the noise was heard far away. See also: 1 Samuel 4:5Luke 19:37-40Psalms 100:1-2
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Notes · Haydock (1859, public domain)7 notes
Notes in English 19th-century Catholic commentary by Fr. George Leo Haydock, shown as published.
These notes keep the polemics of their time: some speak harshly of the Jewish people or of other Christians. The Church teaches otherwise today. The Jewish people may not be blamed for the death of Christ (Nostra Aetate 4; Catechism 597–598), and Christians of other communities are our brothers and sisters in the Lord (Unitatis Redintegratio 3). Christian unity
Ezra 3:1
Ver. 1. Month. Tisri, famous for the feasts of trumpets, of expiation, and of tabernacles. D. ---
The Israelites might spend four months on their journey, and two in making preparations for the feast of tabernacles, (T.) and in erecting huts for themselves. C.
↑ 1Ezra 3:2
Ver. 2. Josue, or Jesus, (Jeshua) the son of Josedec: he was the high priest at that time; (Ch.) the first after the captivity. --- Salathiel, by whom he was brought up, though he was born of Phadaia.
1 Par. iii. 19. C. --- Prot. read Shealtiel.
↑ 2Ezra 3:3
Ver. 3. Fear. This must not prevent God's servants from offering sacrifice. W.
↑ 3Ezra 3:7
Ver. 7. Meat, in imitation of Solomon, 3 K. v. 11. --- Orders. Heb. "permission."
C. --- Prot.
"grant." H.
↑ 7Ezra 3:8
Ver. 8. Work. Heb. adds, "of the house." Josias had appointed the Levites overseers, 2 Par. xxiv.
12. C.
↑ 8Ezra 3:10
Ver. 10. Hands; compositions, (H.) or ordinances. W. --- The 135th Psalm was sung, (C.) or the 117th. Vatab.
↑ 10Ezra 3:12
Ver. 12. Temple. This second temple, though very large (2 Mac. xiv. 13.) and magnificent, (Agg.
ii. 10,) never equalled the glory of the first, in its outward appearance, being also destitute of the ark, and perhaps of the Urim, &c. But the presence of the Messias gave it a more exalted dignity.
C. --- Joy. These different emotions of grief and joy filled their breasts, (D.) thinking how they had brought on the judgments of God by their transgressions, and that he was now appeased, and would enable them to have some sort of a temple. T. --- As it was less beautiful than that of Solomon, Aggeus must be understood to speak of the Church of Christ. S. Aug. de C.
xviii. 45.
W.
↑ 12License: Notes by Fr. George Leo Haydock (1774–1849), from the Douay-Rheims Bible with Haydock's commentary (first ed. Thomas Haydock, Manchester/Dublin, 1811–1814; New York: Edward Dunigan & Brother, 1859); New Testament notes compiled with Fr. Benedict Rayment. Public domain. Digital text: "The Haydock Bible", Internet Archive (archive.org/details/TheHaydockBible), uploaded 2011 under the Public Domain Mark. · Credits and licenses