In the third month they began to lay the foundation of the heaps, and finished [them] in the seventh month.
Ver. 7. In the third month.] About pentecost which is called the feast of harvest.
They began to lay the foundation of the heaps.] That is, Of the grain stacks, brought by the people into the tithe barns. Mal 3:10 This they did not, till the king both exhorted them, and began to them.
And finished them in the seventh month.] About the feast of tabernacles, called the feast of ingathering at the end of the year. Exo 23:16