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Ezra 3:4

Ezra 3:4
They kept also the feast of tabernacles, as it is written, and offered the daily burnt offerings by number, according to the custom, as the duty of every day required;

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Baptist theologian, 1697–1771

Gill's Exposition

They kept also the feast of tabernacles, as it is written,.... According to the rules prescribed for the observation of it in Lev 23:34 this began on the fifteenth day of the seventh month:

and…

Methodist theologian, 1762–1832

Adam Clarke

They kept also the feast of tabernacles, as it is written - This began on the fifteenth day of the seventh month; but they had begun the regular offerings from the first day of this month, Ezr 3:6.…

Nonconformist minister, 1662–1714

Matthew Henry

Ezra 3:1-7

Here is, I. A general assembly of the returned Israelites at Jerusalem, in the seventh month, Ezr 3:1. We may suppose that they came from Babylon in the spring, and must allow at least four months for…

Academic commentary, 1882–1921

Cambridge Bible

The Feast of Tabernacles

4. They kept also the feast of tabernacles, as it is written The manner of keeping the feast of tabernacles is described in Lev 23:34-42; Deu 16:13-15.

It was the autumn or…