Commentaries:
Barnes' Notes
Unto the house of God - i. e., to the place where the house of God had been, and where God was believed still to have His special dwelling.
And appointed the Levites - This is the emphatic clause of the present verse. Though so small a number of Levites had returned from Babylon Ezra 2:40, yet they were especially singled out to be entrusted with the task of superintending and advancing the building of the temple.
Other Barnes' Notes entries containing Ezra 3:8:
Numbers 8:24
1 Chronicles 23:24
Ezra 8:15
Haggai 1:1
Zechariah 3:1
Matthew 21:12-22
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