OLD TESTAMENT

Ezra 10:9

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Then all the men of Judah and Benjamin gathered themselves together to Jerusalem within the three days. It was the ninth month, on the twentieth day of the month; and all the people sat in the wide place in front of God’s house, trembling because of this matter, and because of the great rain.

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Verse 9. Ninth. Casleu, (Zechariah 7:1) which corresponds with our November and December. Menochius.—Street. Court, which afforded as yet no shelter from the rain. Calmet.—This would tend to punish them for their sin, and to make them more sensible to it. Worthington.

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