And that they should publish and proclaim in all their cities, and in Jerusalem, saying, Go forth unto the mount, and fetch olive branches, and pine branches , and myrtle branches, and palm branches, and branches of thick trees, to make booths, as it is written.
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Gill's Exposition
And that they should publish and proclaim in all their cities, and in Jerusalem,.... That is, as Jarchi interprets it, by supplying it thus:
and they commanded that they should publish, &c. Ezra and…
Barnes' Notes
The mount - The “mount of Olives” is probably intended. Pine branches - Rather, “branches of the wild olive.” The actual trees named by the Law may have become scarce. It was probably considered that…
Adam Clarke
Fetch olive branches - For every thing concerning this feast of tabernacles, see the notes on Leviticus 23 (note), and the other places there referred to.
We have here,
I. The people's renewed attendance upon the word. They had spent the greatest part of one day in praying and hearing, and yet were so far from being weary of that new moon and sabbath…
Cambridge Bible
and that they should publish and proclaim … saying In Lev 23:1; Lev 23:4 the children of Israel are commanded to -proclaim the set feasts of the Lord." The actual words of this verse are nowhere to be…
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