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Their drink offering shall be half a hin of wine for a bull, one-third of a hin for a ram, and one-fourth of a hin for a lamb; this is the burnt offering for each month throughout the months of the year.
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Solomon Builds the Temple
And it came to pass in the four hundred and eightieth year after the children of Israel had come out of the land of Egypt, in the fourth year of Solomon’s reign over Israel, in the month of Ziv, which is the second month, that he began to build the house of the Lord.
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In the fourth year the foundation of the house of the Lord was laid, in the month of Ziv.
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By the ninth day of the fourth month the famine had become so severe in the city that there was no food for the people of the land.
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The fourth captain for the fourth month was Asahel the brother of Joab, and Zebadiah his son after him; in his division were twenty-four thousand.
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And he began to build on the second day of the second month in the fourth year of his reign.
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The People Confess Their Sins
Now on the twenty-fourth day of this month the children of Israel were assembled with fasting, in sackcloth, and with dust on their heads.
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Hananiah’s Falsehood and Doom
And it happened in the same year, at the beginning of the reign of Zedekiah king of Judah, in the fourth year and in the fifth month, that Hananiah the son of Azur the prophet, who was from Gibeon, spoke to me in the house of the Lord in the presence of the priests and of all the people, saying,
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In the eleventh year of Zedekiah, in the fourth month, on the ninth day of the month, the city was penetrated.
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By the fourth month, on the ninth day of the month, the famine had become so severe in the city that there was no food for the people of the land.
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Ezekiel’s Vision of God
Now it came to pass in the thirtieth year, in the fourth month, on the fifth day of the month, as I was among the captives by the River Chebar, that the heavens were opened and I saw visions of God.
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Now on the twenty-fourth day of the first month, as I was by the side of the great river, that is, the Tigris,
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on the twenty-fourth day of the sixth month, in the second year of King Darius.
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The People Are Defiled
On the twenty-fourth day of the ninth month, in the second year of Darius, the word of the Lord came by Haggai the prophet, saying,
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‘Consider now from this day forward, from the twenty-fourth day of the ninth month, from the day that the foundation of the Lord’s temple was laid—consider it:
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Zerubbabel Chosen as a Signet
And again the word of the Lord came to Haggai on the twenty-fourth day of the month, saying,
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Vision of the Horses
On the twenty-fourth day of the eleventh month, which is the month Shebat, in the second year of Darius, the word of the Lord came to Zechariah the son of Berechiah, the son of Iddo the prophet:
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Obedience Better than Fasting
Now in the fourth year of King Darius it came to pass that the word of the Lord came to Zechariah, on the fourth day of the ninth month, Chislev,
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“Thus says the Lord of hosts: ‘The fast of the fourth month, The fast of the fifth, The fast of the seventh, And the fast of the tenth, Shall be joy and gladness and cheerful feasts For the house of Judah. Therefore love truth and peace.’
