They gave money also unto the masons, and to the carpenters; and meat, and drink, and oil, unto them of Zidon, and to them of Tyre, to bring cedar trees from Lebanon to the sea of Joppa, according to the grant that they had of Cyrus king of Persia.
They left all their business in the country to attend God's altar, and came as one man, strange unity born of fresh correction for their irreligion. Let worldly business be postponed to the business of religion and it will prosper the better.
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Commenting on Ezra 3:1-7
They gave money also to the masons, and to the carpenters,.... To buy stone and timber with for the building of the temple: and meat and drink and oil unto them of Zidon, and to them of Tyre; which were more agreeable to them than money, because there was not plenty of such things in their country, as in the land of Israel: to bring...
OFFERINGS RENEWED. (Ezr 3:4-7) They kept also the feast of tabernacles . . . From the first day of the seventh month--They revived at that time the daily oblation, and it was on the fifteenth day of that month the feast of tabernacles was held.
Commenting on Ezra 3:4-7