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Month

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Month in the Bible Dictionary

  1. Ancient use of Gen 7:11; 8:4
  2. Twelve months reckoned to a year 1 Chr 27:1–15
  3. 1. Abib (April)
  4. The Jewish calendar began with Ex 12:2; 13:4; Deut 16:1
  5. Passover instituted and celebrated in Ex 12:1–28; 23:15
  6. Israelites left Egypt in Ex 13:4
  7. Tabernacle set up in Ex 40:2, 17
  8. Israelites arrive at Zin in Num 20:1
  9. The Israelites cross the Jordan River in Josh 4:19
  10. The Jordan River overflows in 1 Chr 12:15
  11. Decree to put the Jews to death in Esth 3:12
  12. The death of Jesus in Matt 26; 27
  13. After the captivity called Nisan Neh 2:1; Esth 3:7
  14. 2. Zif (May) 1 Kgs 6:1, 37
  15. Israel numbered in Num 1:1, 18
  16. Passover to be observed in, by the ceremonially unclean and others who could not observe it in the first month Num 9:10, 11
  17. Israel departed from the wilderness of Zin in Num 10:11
  18. Temple begun in 1 Kgs 6:1; 2 Chr 3:2
  19. An celebrated in 2 Chr 30
  20. Rebuilding of the temple begun in Ezra 3:8
  21. 3. Sivan: (June) Esth 8:9
  22. Asa renews the covenant of himself and people in 2 Chr 15:10
  23. 4. Tammuz (July)
  24. (The number only appears in the Bible) .Jerusalem taken by Nebuchadnezzar in Jer 39:2; 52:6, 7
  25. 5. Ab (August)
  26. (Number only mentioned)
  27. Aaron died on the first day of Num 33:38
  28. Temple destroyed in 2 Kgs 25:8–10; Jer 1:3; 52:12–30
  29. Ezra arrived at Jerusalem in Ezra 7:8, 9
  30. 6. Elul (September)
  31. The wall of Jerusalem finished in Neh 6:15
  32. The temple built in Hag 1:14, 15
  33. 7. Ethanim (October) 1 Kgs 8:2
  34. Feasts held in Lev 23:24, 27; Neh 8:13–15
  35. Jubilee proclaimed in Lev 25:9
  36. Solomon’s temple dedicated in 1 Kgs 8:2
  37. Altar rebuilt and offerings renewed in Ezra 3:1, 6
  38. 8. Bul (November)
  39. The temple finished in 1 Kgs 6:38
  40. Jeroboam’s idolatrous feast in 1 Kgs 12:32, 33; 1 Chr 27:11
  41. 9. Chisleu (December) Ezra 10:9; Jer 36:9, 22; Zech 7:1
  42. 10. Tebeth (January) Esth 2:16
  43. Nebuchadnezzar besieges Jerusalem in 2 Kgs 25:1; Jer 52:4
  44. 11. Sebat (February) Zech 1:7
  45. Moses probably died in Deut 1:3
  46. 12. Adar (March) Esth 3:7
  47. Second temple finished in Ezra 6:15
  48. Feast of Purim in Esth 9:1–26
  49. Months in prophecy Rev 11:2

From Nave’s Topical Bible (1896), by Orville J. Nave.