Ezra 3:6
From the first day of the seventh month began they to offer burnt offerings unto the LORD. But the foundation of the temple of the LORD was not yet laid.
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Gill's Exposition
From the first of the seventh month began they to offer burnt offerings unto the Lord,.... And which day was not only a new moon, but a grand festival, the feast of blowing of trumpets, Lev 23:24, and…
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
From the first day of the seventh month&c. This statement taken in conjunction with Ezr 3:5 (-and afterward" &c.) can only mean, that the Jews began to offer burnt offerings on their altar on -the…