3 In spite of their fear because of the peoples of the surrounding lands, they set the altar on its base; and they offered burnt offerings on it to the LORD, even burnt offerings morning and evening.
Ezra 3:3 Cross References - VIN
Exodus 29:38-42
38 "This is what you shall offer on the altar continually: two one year old lambs each day.
39 "You shall offer one lamb in the morning and the other at twilight,
40 and with the one lamb a tenth part of an ephah of fine flour mixed with the fourth part of a hin of beaten oil, and the fourth part of a hin of wine for a drink offering.
41 "You will offer the other lamb at twilight. Offer it with the same grain offering and the same drink offering as in the morning, for a soothing aroma, an offering by fire to the LORD.
42 It shall be a continual burnt offering throughout your generations at the door of the Tent of Meeting before the LORD, where I will meet with you, to speak there to you.
Numbers 28:2-8
2 »Instruct the Israelites to present to God at the appointed time the required food offerings that are pleasing to him.
3 Say to them, This is the offering made by fire which you are to give to the Lord; he-lambs of the first year without any mark, two every day as a regular burned offering.
4 Let one be offered in the morning, and the other at evening;
5 each with a grain offering of two pounds of flour, mixed with two pints of the best olive oil.
6 It is the regular ascent offering instituted at Mount Sinai for a fragrant odor, a fire offering, to the LORD.
7 and its drink offering, a fourth of a hin for the one lamb; pour a drink offering of strong drink to the LORD in the sanctuary.
8 "‘Offer the second lamb in the evening in the same way as the morning offering, together with its wine offering. It also is a food offering, an odor pleasing to the LORD.
2 Chronicles 4:1
1 Then he made a brass altar, twenty cubits long, twenty cubits wide and ten cubits high.
Ezra 4:4
4 Then the people of the land discouraged the people of Judah and made them afraid to build
Ezra 4:11-16
11 This is the copy of the letter that they sent: To King Artaxerxes, From your servants the men beyond the River.
12 be it known to the king that the Jews who have come up from near you to us have gone to Jerusalem. They are building the rebellious and wicked city. They are finishing the wall and repairing the foundation.
13 Now be it known to the king that if this city is built and the walls are finished, they will not pay tribute and toll, and the royal revenue will be reduced.
14 Now, since we eat the salt of the palace, and it is not right for us to see the king`s injury, therefore have we sent and informed the king;
15 that search may be made in the book of the records of your fathers. You will see in the book of the records, and know that this city is a rebellious city, and hurtful to kings and provinces, and that they have started rebellions within it in the past. That is why this city was destroyed.
16 We inform the king that, if this city is built and the walls finished, then you will have no possession beyond the River.
Ezra 8:21-22
21 And even there at the water beside Ahava, I proclaimed a fast, that we might humble ourselves before our God, to seek of him a right way for us, and our children and all our substance.
22 For I was ashamed to ask the king for troops and horses to protect us from enemies on the way because we said to the king, "the hand of our God is favorable to all who seek him, but his strength and anger are against all who forsake them."