Ezra 6:3 BSB — MannaFest

Ezra 6:3

In the first year of King Cyrus, he issued a decree concerning the house of God in Jerusalem: Let the house be rebuilt as a place for offering sacrifices, and let its foundations be firmly laid. It is to be sixty cubits high and sixty cubits wide,

BSB

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ASV

In the first year of Cyrus the king, Cyrus the king made a decree: Concerning the house of God at Jerusalem, let the house be builded, the place where they offer sacrifices, and let the foundations thereof be strongly laid; the height thereof threescore cubits, and the breadth thereof threescore cubits;

KJV

In the first year of Cyrus the king the same Cyrus the king made a decree concerning the house of God at Jerusalem, Let the house be builded, the place where they offered sacrifices, and let the foundations thereof be strongly laid; the height thereof threescore cubits, and the breadth thereof threescore cubits;

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Commentary

2 voices

Albert Barnes

1798–1870

Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869)

It is difficult to reconcile the dimentions here with expressions in Zechariah Zec 4:10, Haggai Hag 2:3, and even Ezra Ezr 3:12, which imply that the second temple was smaller than the first (compare 1Ki 6:2). Perhaps the dimensions here are those which Cyrus required the Jews not to exceed.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice

John Wesley

1703–1791

Explanatory Notes upon the Old Testament (1765)

Cubits - Those proportions differ from those of Solomon's temple, which was but thirty cubits high, only the porch was a hundred and twenty cubits high, and but twenty cubits in breadth. Either therefore Solomon's cubits were sacred cubits, which were larger than the other, and these but common cubits. Or, the sixty cubits of height are meant only for the porch.

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Original language & word study

25 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
בִּשְׁנַ֨ת	bish.Nat	in year	H8140 →
חֲדָ֜ה	cha.Dah	one	H2298 →
לְכ֣וֹרֶשׁ	le.Kho.resh	of Cyrus	H3567 →
מַלְכָּ֗א	mal.Ka'	king the	H4430 →
כּ֣וֹרֶשׁ	Ko.resh	Cyrus	H3567 →
מַלְכָּא֮	mal.Ka'	king the	H4430 →
שָׂ֣ם	sam	he made	H7761 →
טְעֵם֒	te.'Em	a decree	H2942 →
בֵּית־	beit-	[the] house of	H1005 →
אֱלָהָ֤א	'e.la.Ha'	<the> God	H426 →
בִֽירוּשְׁלֶם֙	vi.ru.she.Lem	in Jerusalem	H3390 →
בַּיְתָ֣א	bay.Ta'	house the	H1005 →
יִתְבְּנֵ֔א	yit.be.Ne'	let it be built	H1124 →
אֲתַר֙	'a.Tar	a place	H870 →
דִּֽי־	di-	which	H1768 →
דָבְחִ֣ין	da.ve.Chin	[they were] sacrificing	H1684 →
דִּבְחִ֔ין	div.Chin	sacrifices	H1685 →
וְאֻשּׁ֖וֹהִי	ve.'u.Sho.hi	and foundations its	H787 →
מְסֽוֹבְלִ֑ין	me.sov.Lin	[be] retained	H5446 →
רוּמֵהּ֙	ru.Meh	height its	H7314 →
אַמִּ֣ין	'a.Min	cubits	H521 →
שִׁתִּ֔ין	shi.Tin	sixty	H8361 →
פְּתָיֵ֖הּ	pe.ta.Yeh	width its	H6613 →
אַמִּ֥ין	'a.Min	cubits	H521 →
שִׁתִּֽין׃	shi.Tin	sixty	H8361 →

Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.

The walk

The walk8

Where the connections lead

Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

Through
2 Chronicles 36:22
In the first year of Cyrus king of Persia, to fulfill the word of the LORD spoken through Jeremiah, the LORD stirred the spirit of Cyrus king of Persia to send a proclamation throughout…
leads to
- Jeremiah 25:12
  But when seventy years are complete, I will punish the king of Babylon and that nation, the land of the Chaldeans, for their guilt, declares the LORD, and I will make it an everlasting…
- Ezra 1:1–3
  In the first year of Cyrus king of Persia, to fulfill the word of the LORD spoken through Jeremiah, the LORD stirred the spirit of Cyrus king of Persia to send a proclamation throughout…
- Jeremiah 29:10
  For this is what the LORD says: “When Babylon’s seventy years are complete, I will attend to you and confirm My promise to restore you to this place.
Through
2 Chronicles 2:6
But who is able to build a house for Him, since the heavens, even the highest heavens, cannot contain Him? Who then am I, that I should build a house for Him, except as…
leads to
- Isaiah 66:1
  This is what the LORD says: “Heaven is My throne, and earth is My footstool. What kind of house will you build for Me? Or where will My place of repose be?
- 2 Chronicles 6:18
  But will God indeed dwell with man upon the earth? Even heaven, the highest heaven, cannot contain You, much less this temple I have built.
- 1 Kings 8:27
  But will God indeed dwell upon the earth? Even heaven, the highest heaven, cannot contain You, much less this temple I have built.
- Acts 7:48–49
  However, the Most High does not dwell in houses made by human hands. As the prophet says:
Through
Psalms 122:4
where the tribes go up, the tribes of the LORD, as a testimony for Israel, to give thanks to the name of the LORD.
leads to
- Deuteronomy 16:16
  Three times a year all your men are to appear before the LORD your God in the place He will choose: at the Feast of Unleavened Bread, the Feast of Weeks, and the Feast…