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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