Month
49 references
- Ancient use of Gen. 7:11; 8:4
- Twelve months reckoned to a year 1 Chr. 27:1-15
- 1. Abib (April)
- The Jewish calendar began with Exod. 12:2; 13:4; Deut. 16:1
- Passover instituted and celebrated in Exod. 12:1-28; 23:15
- Israelites left Egypt in Exod. 13:4
- Tabernacle set up in Exod. 40:2,17
- Israelites arrive at Zin in Num. 20:1
- The Israelites cross the Jordan River in Josh. 4:19
- The Jordan River overflows in 1 Chr. 12:15
- Decree to put the Jews to death in Esth. 3:12
- The death of Jesus in Matt. 26; 27
- After the captivity called Nisan Neh. 2:1; Esth. 3:7
- 2. Zif (May) 1 Kgs. 6:1,37
- Israel numbered in Num. 1:1,18
- Passover to be observed in, by the ceremonially unclean and others who could not observe it in the first month Num. 9:10,11
- Israel departed from the wilderness of Zin in Num. 10:11
- Temple begun in 1 Kgs. 6:1; 2 Chr. 3:2
- An celebrated in 2 Chr. 30:1-27
- Rebuilding of the temple begun in Ezra 3:8
- 3. Sivan: (June) Esth. 8:9
- Asa renews the covenant of himself and people in 2 Chr. 15:10
- 4. Tammuz (July)
- (The number only appears in the Bible) .Jerusalem taken by Nebuchadnezzar in Jer. 39:2; 52:6,7
- 5. Ab (August)
- (Number only mentioned)
- Aaron died on the first day of Num. 33:38
- Temple destroyed in 2 Kgs. 25:8-10; Jer. 1:3; 52:12-30
- Ezra arrived at Jerusalem in Ezra 7:8,9
- 6. Elul (September)
- The wall of Jerusalem finished in Neh. 6:15
- The temple built in Hag. 1:14,15
- 7. Ethanim (October) 1 Kgs. 8:2
- Feasts held in Lev. 23:24,27; Neh. 8:13-15
- Jubilee proclaimed in Lev. 25:9
- Solomon's temple dedicated in 1 Kgs. 8:2
- Altar rebuilt and offerings renewed in Ezra 3:1,6
- 8. Bul (November)
- The temple finished in 1 Kgs. 6:38
- Jeroboam's idolatrous feast in 1 Kgs. 12:32,33; 1 Chr. 27:11
- 9. Chisleu (December) Ezra 10:9; Jer. 36:9,22; Zech. 7:1
- 10. Tebeth (January) Esth. 2:16
- Nebuchadnezzar besieges Jerusalem in 2 Kgs. 25:1; Jer. 52:4
- 11. Sebat (February) Zech. 1:7
- Moses probably died in Deut. 1:3
- 12. Adar (March) Esth. 3:7
- Second temple finished in Ezra 6:15
- Feast of Purim in Esth. 9:1-26
- Months in prophecy Rev. 11:2
From Nave's Topical Bible (1896). Public domain.