Matthew Poole and continuators on Ezra 3:12

12 But many of the priests and Levites, and chief of the fathers, who were ancient men, that had seen the first house , when the foundation of this house was laid before their eyes, wept with a loud voice ; and many shouted for joy:

Which divers of them might very well do; because it was destroyed not quite Sixty years ago, as is manifest from 2 King. 25. 2 Chr. 36. & Ezek. 40. 1.

Partly because of the poor and small preparations made for this in comparison of what was made for the other Temple: partly because this Temple was divested and destitute of those things which were the principal Glory of the former Temple, to wit, the Ark▪ and the Urim and Thummim, & c. partly because these foundation-stones were far inferiour to the former, both for quantity and price, 1 King. 7. 9, 10. and partly because these foundations were of a far narrower compass than the former: for although the foundations of this House of the Lord, strictly so called, were at least of equal largeness with those of the former, by comparing 1 King. 6. 2. & Ezra 6. 1, 2, 3. yet the Foundations of the whole building belonging to the first Temple, and adjoining to it, or in the courts of it, were far larger than these.