Ezra 10:9
New Living Translation
9 Within three days, all the people of Judah and Benjamin had gathered in Jerusalem. This took place on December 19,[a] and all the people were sitting in the square before the Temple of God. They were trembling both because of the seriousness of the matter and because it was raining.
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1 Samuel 12:17-18
New Living Translation
17 You know that it does not rain at this time of the year during the wheat harvest. I will ask the Lord to send thunder and rain today. Then you will realize how wicked you have been in asking the Lord for a king!”
18 So Samuel called to the Lord, and the Lord sent thunder and rain that day. And all the people were terrified of the Lord and of Samuel.
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Jeremiah 10:13
New Living Translation
13 When he speaks in the thunder,
the heavens roar with rain.
He causes the clouds to rise over the earth.
He sends the lightning with the rain
and releases the wind from his storehouses.
Jeremiah 10:10
New Living Translation
10 But the Lord is the only true God.
He is the living God and the everlasting King!
The whole earth trembles at his anger.
The nations cannot stand up to his wrath.
Esther 2:16
New Living Translation
16 Esther was taken to King Xerxes at the royal palace in early winter[a] of the seventh year of his reign.
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- 2:16 Hebrew in the tenth month, the month of Tebeth. A number of dates in the book of Esther can be cross-checked with dates in surviving Persian records and related accurately to our modern calendar. This month of the ancient Hebrew lunar calendar occurred within the months of December 479 B.c. and January 478 B.c.
Ezra 7:8-9
New Living Translation
8 Ezra arrived in Jerusalem in August[a] of that year. 9 He had arranged to leave Babylon on April 8, the first day of the new year,[b] and he arrived at Jerusalem on August 4,[c] for the gracious hand of his God was on him.
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- 7:8 Hebrew in the fifth month. This month in the ancient Hebrew lunar calendar occurred within the months of August and September 458 B.c.
- 7:9a Hebrew on the first day of the first month, of the ancient Hebrew lunar calendar. This day was April 8, 458 B.c.; also see note on 6:15.
- 7:9b Hebrew on the first day of the fifth month, of the ancient Hebrew lunar calendar. This day was August 4, 458 B.c.; also see note on 6:15.
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