Geneva Bible Notes: Ezra 3

Ezra 3:1 (!) Thei buyld the altar of God.

Ezra 3:1 (a) Called Tishri, which answereth to part of September & parte of October.

Ezra 3:2 (b) Meaning, nephewe: for he was the sonne of Pedaiah read {1 Chro. 3,19}

Ezra 3:3 (c) In the place where Salomon had placed it.

Ezra 3:5 (d) That is, after the feast of Tabernacles.

Ezra 3:6 (!) Thei offer to the Lord.

Ezra 3:7 (/) Or, Joppe.

Ezra 3:7 (!) Thei prepare for the Temple

Ezra 3:8 (e) Which moneth conteined parte of April and parte of May for in the meane season they had prouided for things necessarie for the worke.

Ezra 3:9 (f) They gaue them exhortations & encouraged euerie man forward in the worke.

Ezra 3:11 (!) And sing vnto the Lord.

Ezra 3:12 (g) Because thei sawe that it was nothing so glorious as that Temple, which Salomon had buylt, notwithstanding Ageus comforteth them & prophecieth that it shalbe more beautiful then the first: meaning the spiritual Temple, which are the members of Christes bodie.