Ezr 6:16-17, Eze 45:17, Mic 6:7 | TSK | STEP | the children. children of the captivity. Chal. sons of the transportation. the dedication. with joy. 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.

‏ Ezra 6:16-17

the children.

1Ch 9:2; Ne 7:73

children of the captivity. Chal. sons of the transportation.

4:1

the dedication.

1Ki 8:63; 2Ch 7:5,9; Joh 10:22

with joy.

22; 3:11,12; De 12:7; 1Ch 15:28; 2Ch 7:10; 30:23,26; Ne 8:10; 12:43

Ps 122:1; Php 4:4Having 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.

8:35; Nu 7:2-89; 1Ki 8:63,64; 1Ch 16:1-3; 2Ch 7:5; 29:31-35

a sin offering.

Le 4:3,13,14,22,23,28; 2Ch 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.

1Ki 18:31; Lu 22:30; Re 7:4-8; 21:12

‏ Ezekiel 45:17

the prince's.The prince is never mentioned in the ritual appointments of Moses, but here he is required to provide the oblations; and the variations in the Mosaic law, in the number of the several sacrifices, and the proportion of the meat offering to each, being ten times as much as the law prescribed, with several other circumstances, seem more like enacting a new law, than enforcing that of Moses. These variations may intimate a change in the external constitution of the church; and it is probable that they are to be understood emblematically.

46:4-12; 2Sa 6:19; 1Ki 8:63,64; 1Ch 16:2,3; 29:3-9; 2Ch 5:6; 7:4,5

2Ch 8:12,13; 30:24; 31:3; 35:7,8; Ezr 1:5; 6:8,9; Ps 68:18; Joh 1:16

Ro 11:35,36; Eph 5:2

in the feasts.

Le 23:1-44; Nu 28:1-29:40; Isa 66:23

he shall prepare.

Ps 22:15-26,29; Joh 6:51-57; 1Co 5:7,8; Heb 13:10; 1Pe 2:24; 3:18

peace offerings. or, thank offerings.

43:27; Col 3:17; Heb 13:15