Ezra 3:3 Cross References - ISV

³ Even though they feared the people in neighboring regions, they rebuilt the altar where it had stood before. They offered burnt offerings on it to the LORD—burnt offerings both in the morning and in the evening.

³⁸ The Altar for Burnt Offering
“This is what you are to offer on the altar continually: two one year old lambs each day. ³⁹ “You are to offer one lamb in the morning and the other at twilight, ⁴⁰ and there is to be a tenth measure of choice flour mixed with one fourth of a hin of oil extracted by hand, and one fourth of a hin of wine as a drink offering for one lamb. ⁴¹ You are to offer the other lamb at twilight with the same grain offering and drink offering as in the morning. You are to offer it as a soothing aroma, an offering by fire to the LORD. ⁴² It is to be a regular burnt offering throughout your generations at the doorway to the Tent of Meeting in the LORD’s presence, where I’ll meet with you to speak to you there.

² “You are to command the Israelis about my offerings that they are to be sure to bring edible offerings to me, presented by fire, and a pleasing aroma to me, at their appointed time. ³ Tell them that this is the offering, presented by fire, that you are to offer to the LORD: two one year old lambs, offered daily every day. ⁴ Offer the first lamb in the morning and the second toward the evening, ⁵ accompanied by one tenth of an ephah of fine flour for grain offering, mixed with one fourth of a hin of pure olive oil. ⁶ This burnt offering, which was prescribed at Mount Sinai, is to be offered every day as a pleasing aroma made by fire to the LORD.
⁷ “The drink offering is to be one fourth of a hin for each lamb. You are to pour out a drink offering of strong wine to the LORD in the Holy Place. ⁸ You are also to offer the second lamb toward the evening. Just like the morning sacrifice, you are to present the grain offering, accompanied by its corresponding drink offering, as a presentation made by fire, a pleasing aroma to the LORD.”

¹ Furnishing the Temple
Solomon also constructed a bronze altar 20 cubits long, 20 cubits wide, and ten cubits high.

⁴ The Plot Succeeds—for a WhileAfter this, the non-Israeli inhabitants of the land undermined the people of Judah, harassing them in their construction work

¹¹ This is the text of the letter they sent. To: King Artaxerxes From: Your servants, the men of the province beyond the Euphrates River. ¹² May the king be advised that the Jews who came from you to us have reached Jerusalem and are rebuilding a rebellious and wicked city, having completed its walls and repaired its foundations. ¹³ May the king be further advised that if this city is rebuilt and its walls erected, its citizens will refuse to pay tributes, taxes, and tariffs, thereby restricting royal revenues. ¹⁴ Now, because we are royal employees and are committed to preserving the reputation of the king, we have written to the king and have declared its contents to be true, ¹⁵ urging that a search may be made in the official registers of your predecessors. You will discover in the registers that this city is a rebellious city, that it is damaging to both kings and provinces, that it has been moved to sedition from time immemorial, and that because of this it was destroyed. ¹⁶ We certify to the king that if this city is rebuilt and its walls completed, you will lose your land holdings in the province beyond the Euphrates River.

²¹ Then I called for a fast there at the Ahava River so we could humble ourselves before our God and seek from him an appropriate way for us and our little ones to live, and how we should guard our personal wealth, ²² because I was ashamed to ask the king for a contingent of soldiers and cavalry to protect us from enemies we might encounter on the way. After all, we had told the king, “The hand of our God seeks the good of all who seek him, but his power and anger are against everyone who forsakes him.”

¹ Davidic
Confidence in the LORD The LORD is my light and my salvation— whom will I fear? The LORD is the strength of my life; of whom will I be afraid? ² When those who practice evil, my enemies, and my oppressors come near me to devour my flesh, they stumble and fall.

² Those who watch me all day have harassed me, for there are many who fight against me out of conceit. ³ On days when I am afraid, I put my trust in you. ⁴ In God, whose word I praise, in God I put my trust. I will not fear what mortal man can do to me.