Ezra 3:1 (DRB)

Passage

And now the seventh month was come, and the children of Israel were in their cities: and the people gathered themselves together as one man to Jerusalem.

Nearby Context

Ezra 3:1 And now the seventh month was come, and the children of Israel were in their cities: and the people gathered themselves together as one man to Jerusalem.

Ezra 3:2 And Josue the son of Josedec rose up, and his brethren the priests, and Zorobabel the son of Salathiel, and his brethren, and they built the altar of the God of Israel that they might offer holocausts upon it, as it is written in the law of Moses the man of God.

Ezra 3:3 And they set the altar of God upon its bases, while the people of the lands round about put them in fear, and they offered upon it a holocaust to the Lord morning and evening.

Study Lenses

The verse centers on "seventh", "month", "come", "children", "israel", "cities", "people", and "gathered". It is saying that the verse draws attention to "seventh" and "month", so its meaning should be read from those terms before moving to application.

The next verse adds "And Josue the son of Josedec rose...", so "seventh" and "month" should be read forward into that movement. In Ezra context, the local focus is covenant, worship, and faithfulness.

A plain takeaway is to answer the verse's own emphasis on "seventh" and "month" with trust shaped by these words, not by a vague optimism outside the passage.