‏ Ezra 6:15-17

am 3489, bc 515

Adar Esth 3:7, Esth 3:13, Esth 8:12, Esth 9:1, Esth 9:15, Esth 9:17, Esth 9:19, Esth 9:21

the children 1Chr 9:2; Neh 7:73

children of the captivity Chal, sons of the transportation, Ezra 4:1

the dedication 1Kgs 8:63; 2Chr 7:5, 2Chr 7:9; John 10:22

with joy Ezra 6:22, Ezra 3:11-12; Deut 12:7; 1Chr 15:28; 2Chr 7:10, 2Chr 30:23, 2Chr 30:26; Neh 8:10, Neh 12:43; Ps 122:1; Phil 4:4; Having set up the worship of God in this dedication, they took care to keep it up, and made the book of Moses their rule, to which they had an eye in this establishment. Though the temple service could not now be performed with so much pomp and plenty as formerly, because of their poverty, yet no doubt it was performed with as much purity and close adherence to the Divine institutions as ever. No beauty is like the beauty of holiness.

offered Ezra 8:35; Num 7:2-89; 1Kgs 8:63-64; 1Chr 16:1-3; 2Chr 7:5, 2Chr 29:31-35

a sin offering Lev 4:3, Lev 4:13-14, Lev 4:22-23, Lev 4:28; 2Chr 29:21-23

according to Though the tribes of Benjamin and Judah, with the priests and Levites, formed the bulk of the people, yet many from the other tribes had returned with them from captivity. 1Kgs 18:31; Luke 22:30; Rev 7:4-8, Rev 21:12

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