Ezra 3:1-3. The Building of the Altar

1. The first clause of this verse concludes the Register of the preceding section in Nehemiah (Nehemiah 7:73).

the seventh month Probably the 7th month in the first year of the Return, since the next recorded date (Ezra 3:8) is the 2nd month -in the second year of their coming unto the house of God".

The 7th month the month Tisri was in some respects the most sacred in the Jewish Calendar. The 1st day was the Feast of Trumpets (Numbers 29:1): the 10th was the Great Day of Atonement (Numbers 29:7; Leviticus 16:29): the 15th was the Feast of Tabernacles (Leviticus 23:34-36; Leviticus 23:39-44; Numbers 29:12-38). It was therefore an appropriate season for the first religious act of the new community. -The holy convocation" on the 1st day was to herald the new order of things.

Psalms 81. very possibly commemorates the festival of -the new moon".

as one man cf. Judges 20:1; Nehemiah 8:1.

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