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