Ezra 1:3-5
God ...................... God ....... God <0430> [his God.]
God ...................... God ....... God <0430> [he is the God.]
<0582> [let the men.]
helped ...... silver <05375 03701> [help him. Heb. lift him up.]
voluntary offerings <05071> [the freewill.]
mind <07307> [whose spirit.]
Ezra 3:2
Jeshua <03442> [Jeshua.]
[Joshua the son of Josedech. Zerubbabel.]
[Zorobabel, Salathiel. as it is written.]
Bp. Patrick observes, that before the temple was built, there seems to have been a tabernacle pitched for Divine service, as was in David's time, not on mount Moriah, but mount Sion, to be used while the temple was building. Let us learn hence to begin with God, and to do what we can in the worship of God, when we cannot do what we would. They could not immediately have a temple, but they would not be without an altar. Wherever a Christian goes, if he carry not with him the sacrifices of prayer and praise, he is wanting in his duty; for he has an altar ever ready that sanctifies both the gift and the giver.
Ezra 3:9
Jeshua <03442> [Jeshua.]
Not Jeshua the high-priest, before mentioned, but another Jeshua, a Levite, mentioned in the parallel passage.
Yehudah <03063> [Judah]
Hodaviah, [H“wdavyƒh <\\See definition 01938\\>,] is called Hodevah, [H“wdevƒh <\\See definition 01937\\>,] by the elision of [Y“wd,] {yood,} and was probably named Judah, from the word having the same signification.
[Hodaviah.]
[Hodevah.]
<0259> [together. Heb. as one.]
Ezra 6:22
Feast <02282> [the feast.]
changed <05437> [turned.]
king <04428> [the king.]
Darius, as reigning over the country of Assyria, is here called "the king of Assyria."
Ezra 10:1
Ezra <05830> [when Ezra.]
confessing <03034> [when he had.]
weeping ............................. wept <01058> [weeping.]
before ... temple <06440 01004> [before the house.]
very large <03966 07227 07235> [a very great.]
<07235 01059> [very sore. Heb. a great weeping.]
Ezra 10:6
room <03957> [the chamber.]
Jehohanan <03076> [Johanan.]
eat <0398> [he did eat.]
mourning <056> [he mourned.]
Ezra 10:9
ninth month ........ month <02320 08671> [the ninth month.]
That is, some time in December, which is the coldest and most rainy time of the year in Palestine. Dr. Russel, in his account of the weather at Aleppo, which very much resembles that in Judea, says, that the natives reckon the severity of the winter, which they call {marbania,} to last but forty days, beginning from the 12th of December, and ending the 20th of January, and that this computation comes in fact very near the truth: and that the air during this time is excessively piercing, even to those that are just come from a cold climate.
trembling <07460> [trembling.]
rains <01653> [great rain. Heb. showers.]
