1; A solemn fast, and repentance of the people.
4; The Levites make a religious confession of God's goodness,
and their wickedness.
* Now.
On the first of this month was the feast of trumpets; on the
tenth, the day of atonement; on the fourteenth began the feast
of tabernacles, which lasted seven days, ending on the twenty-
second; on the twenty-third, they separated themselves from
their illegitimate wives; and on the twenty-fourth, they held
a solemn day of fasting and confession of sin, and reading the
law; the whole of which they closed by renewing their
covenants.
* twenty.
# Le 23:34,39; 2Ch 7:10|
* of this month.
# 8:2|
* children.
# Jud 20:26; 2Ch 20:3; Ezr 8:23; Es 4:3,16; Isa 22:12; Joe 1:13,14,|
# Joe 2:15-17; Jon 3:5-8; Ac 13:2,3|
* earth.
# Jos 7:6; 1Sa 4:12; 2Sa 1:2; Job 2:12|
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