* the ninth month.
That is, some time in December, which is the coldest and most
rainy time of the year in Palestine. Dr. Russel, in his
account of the weather at Aleppo, which very much resembles
that in Judea, says, that the natives reckon the severity of
the winter, which they call {marbania,} to last but forty
days, beginning from the 12th of December, and ending the 20th
of January, and that this computation comes in fact very near
the truth: and that the air during this time is excessively
piercing, even to those that are just come from a cold
climate.
7:8,9 Es 2:16
* trembling.
1Sa 12:17,18 Jer 10:10,13
* great rain. Heb. showers.
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