ezra 3:1 And when the seventh month was come, and the children of Israel were in the cities, the people gathered themselves together as one man to Jerusalem.

ezra 3:1 Now when the seventh month came, and the sons of Israel [were] in the cities, the people gathered together as one man to Jerusalem.

Ezr 3:1-13. THE ALTAR SET UP.

1. when the seventh month was come--The departure of the returning exiles from Babylon took place in the spring. For some time after their arrival they were occupied in the necessary work of rearing habitations to themselves amid the ruins of Jerusalem and its neighborhood. This preliminary work being completed, they addressed themselves to rebuild the altar of burnt offering. As the seventh month of the sacred year was at hand--corresponding to the latter end of our September--when the feast of tabernacles (Le 23:34) fell to be observed, they resolved to celebrate that religious festival, just as if the temple had been fully restored.

ezra 3:1 Now when the seventh month came, and the sons of Israel [were] in the cities, the people gathered together as one man to Jerusalem.

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