Then all the men of Judah and Benjamin gathered themselves together unto Jerusalem within three days. It [was] the (e) ninth month, on the twentieth [day] of the month; and all the people sat in the street of the house of God, trembling because of [this] matter, and for the great (f) rain.
(e) Which contained part of November and part of December.
(f) For the season was given to rain and so the weather was more sharp and cold and also their conscience touched them.