Ezra 3:4 - Exposition

CELEBRATION OF THE FEAST OF TABERNACLES ( Ezra 3:4 ). Emboldened by their successful restoration of the altar of burnt sacrifice, Zerubbabel and Jeshua allowed the people to gather themselves together and celebrate the autumnal festival, though they can scarcely have made it on this occasion a "feast of ingathering."

As it is written . According to the mode of celebration prescribed in the law; i.e. for seven consecutive days, from the fifteenth to the twenty-second of Tisri, with burnt offerings every day, and a holy convocation on the first day and the last, and a "dwelling in tents" during the whole period (see Le 23:31-42). The daily burnt offerings by number, according to the custom . The offerings for each day of the festival are carefully laid down in Numbers 29:13-38 . We must understand that all the particulars there enjoined were carefully observed.