THEOSISEzra 3:3Meaning & Commentary from the Church Fathers
And they set the altar of God upon its bases, while the people of the lands round about put them in fear, and they offered upon it a holocaust to the Lord morning and evening.
וַיָּכִ֤ינוּ הַמִּזְבֵּ֙חַ֙ עַל־מְכ֣וֹנֹתָ֔יו כִּ֚י בְּאֵימָ֣ה עֲלֵיהֶ֔ם מֵעַמֵּ֖י הָאֲרָצ֑וֹת ויעל וַיַּעֲל֨וּ עָלָ֤יו עֹלוֹת֙ לַֽיהוָ֔ה עֹל֖וֹת לַבֹּ֥קֶר וְלָעָֽרֶב׃
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Passages read together with this verse.
- Num 28:2Command the children of Israel, and thou shalt say to them: Offer ye my oblation and my bread, and burnt sacrifice of most sweet odour, in their due seasons.
- Num 28:8And you shall offer the other lamb in like manner in the evening according to all the rites of the morning sacrifice, and of the libations thereof, an oblation of most sweet odour to the Lord.
- Ezra 4:4Then the people of the land hindered the hands of the people of Juda, and troubled them in building.
- Ex 29:38This is what thou shalt sacrifice upon the altar: Two lambs of a year old every day continually,
- Ex 29:42It is a sacrifice to the Lord, by perpetual oblation unto your generations, at the door of the tabernacle of the testimony before the Lord, where I will appoint to speak unto thee.
- 2 Chr 4:1He made also an altar of brass twenty cubits long, and twenty cubits broad, and ten cubits high.
- Ezra 4:11(This is the copy of the letter, which they sent to him:) To Artaxerxes the king, thy servants, the men that are on this side of the river, send greeting.
- Ezra 4:16We certify the king, that if this city be built, and the walls thereof repaired, thou shalt have no possession on this side of the river.