9And it came to pass in the fifth year of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah king of Judah, in the ninth month, that they proclaimed a fast before the LORD to all the people in Jerusalem, and to all the people that came from the cities of Judah unto Jerusalem.
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
And Jehoshaphat feared, and set himself to seek the LORD, and proclaimed a fast throughout all Judah.
Now the king sat in the winterhouse in the ninth month: and there was a fire on the hearth burning before him.
So the people of Nineveh believed God, and proclaimed a fast, and put on sackcloth, from the greatest of them even to the least of them.
Go, gather together all the Jews that are present in Shushan, and fast ye for me, and neither eat nor drink three days, night or day: I also and my maidens will fast likewise; and so will I go in unto the king, which is not according to the law: and if I perish, I perish.
Therefore also now, saith the LORD, turn ye even to me with all your heart, and with fasting, and with weeping, and with mourning: …
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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 9-19)It should seem that Baruch had been frequently reading out of the book, to all companies that would give him the hearing, before the most solemn reading of it altogether which is here spoken of; for the directions were given about it in the fourth year of Jehoiakim , whereas this was done in the fifth year , Jer. 36:9. But some think that the writing of the book fairly over took up so much time th…
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