the eighth month of the ecclesiastical year of the Jews, and the
second month of the civil year. It answers to October, and consists of
twenty-nine days. On the sixth day of this month the Jews fasted,
because on that day Nebuchadnezzar put to death the children of Zedekiah
in the presence of their unhappy father, whose eyes, after they had been
witnesses of this sad spectacle, he ordered to be put out, 2 Kings xxv,
7. We find the name of this month mentioned in Scripture but once, 1
Kings vi, 38.
second month of the civil year. It answers to October, and consists of
twenty-nine days. On the sixth day of this month the Jews fasted,
because on that day Nebuchadnezzar put to death the children of Zedekiah
in the presence of their unhappy father, whose eyes, after they had been
witnesses of this sad spectacle, he ordered to be put out, 2 Kings xxv,
7. We find the name of this month mentioned in Scripture but once, 1
Kings vi, 38.