Ezra 3:3

New International Reader's Version

The people who built the altar were afraid of the nations around them. But they built it anyway. They set it up where it had stood before. They sacrificed burnt offerings on it to the Lord. They offered the morning and evening sacrifices on it.

Cross References

1 Chronicles 16:40

David left them there to sacrifice burnt offerings to the Lord on the altar every morning and evening. They did it according to everything written in the Law of the Lord. That’s the Law he had given to Israel.

2 Chronicles 4:1

Solomon made a bronze altar 30 feet long, 30 feet wide and 15 feet high.

Ezra 4:4

Then the nations around Judah tried to make its people lose hope. They wanted to make them afraid to go on building.

Ezra 5:15

Cyrus told him, ‘Take these objects with you. Go and put them in the temple in Jerusalem. Rebuild the house of God in the same place where it stood before.’

Ezekiel 43:16

The top part of the altar is square. It is 21 feet long and 21 feet wide.