Ezra 10:9 (KJV)

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Then all the men of Judah and Benjamin gathered themselves together unto Jerusalem within three days It was the ninth month on the twentieth day of the month and all the people sat in the street of the house of God trembling because of this matter and for the great rain

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the ninth month.That is, some time in December, which is the coldest and most rainy time of the year in Palestine. Dr. Russel, in his account of the weather at Aleppo, which very much resembles that in Judea, says, that the natives reckon the severity of the winter, which they call {marbania,} to last but forty days, beginning from the 12th of December, and ending the 20th of January, and that this computation comes in fact very near the truth: and that the air during this time is excessively piercing, even to those that are just come from a cold climate. Ezr 7:8 Ezr 7:9 Es 2:16

trembling. 1Sa 12:17 1Sa 12:18 Jer 10:10 Jer 10:13

great rain. Heb. showers.

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