Months
29 passages listed in Nave’s Topical Bible and Torrey’s New Topical Textbook. Verse text: Berean Standard Bible; links open in your translation.
20 sections
- Commenced with First Appearance of New Moon
- Idolaters Prognosticated By
- Names of the Twelve: Eighth, Bul
- Names of the Twelve: Eleventh, Sebat
- Names of the Twelve: Fifth, Av
- Names of the Twelve: First, Nisan or Abib
- Names of the Twelve: Fourth, Tammuz
- Names of the Twelve: Ninth, Chisleu
- Names of the Twelve: Second, Zif
- Names of the Twelve: Seventh, Ethanim
- Names of the Twelve: Sixth, Elul
- Names of the Twelve: Tenth, Tebeth
- Names of the Twelve: Third, Sivan
- Names of the Twelve: Twelfth, Adar
- Observance of, Condemned
- Originally had No Names
- Sun and Moon Designed to Mark Out
- The Jews Computed Time By
- The Patriarchs Computed Time By
- The Year Composed of Twelve
Commenced with First Appearance of New Moon
- Numbers 10:10 And on your joyous occasions, your appointed feasts, and the beginning of each month, you are to blow the trumpets over your burnt offerings and peace offerings to serve as a reminder for you before your God. I am the LORD your God.”
- Psalm 81:3 Sound the ram’s horn at the New Moon, and at the full moon on the day of our Feast.
Idolaters Prognosticated By
- Isaiah 47:13 You are wearied by your many counselors; let them come forward now and save you— your astrologers who observe the stars, who monthly predict your fate.
Names of the Twelve: Eighth, Bul
- 1 Kings 6:38 In the eleventh year, in the month of Bul, the eighth month, the temple was finished in every detail and according to every specification. So he built the temple in seven years.
Names of the Twelve: Eleventh, Sebat
- Zechariah 1:7 On the twenty-fourth day of the eleventh month, the month of Shebat, in the second year of Darius, the word of the LORD came to the prophet Zechariah son of Berechiah, the son of Iddo.
Names of the Twelve: Fifth, Av
- Zechariah 7:3 by asking the priests of the house of the LORD of Hosts, as well as the prophets, “Should I weep and fast in the fifth month, as I have done these many years?”
Names of the Twelve: First, Nisan or Abib
- Exodus 13:4 Today, in the month of Abib, you are leaving.
- Nehemiah 2:1 Now in the month of Nisan, in the twentieth year of King Artaxerxes, when wine was set before him, I took the wine and gave it to the king. I had never been sad in his presence,
Names of the Twelve: Fourth, Tammuz
- Zechariah 8:19 “This is what the LORD of Hosts says: The fasts of the fourth, the fifth, the seventh, and the tenth months will become times of joy and gladness, cheerful feasts for the house of Judah. Therefore you are to love both truth and peace.”
Names of the Twelve: Ninth, Chisleu
- Zechariah 7:1 In the fourth year of King Darius, the word of the LORD came to Zechariah on the fourth day of the ninth month, the month of Chislev.
Names of the Twelve: Second, Zif
- 1 Kings 6:1 In the four hundred and eightieth year after the Israelites had come out of the land of Egypt, in the fourth year of Solomon’s reign over Israel, in the month of Ziv, the second month, he began to build the house of the LORD.
- 1 Kings 6:37 The foundation of the house of the LORD was laid in the fourth year of Solomon’s reign, in the month of Ziv.
Names of the Twelve: Seventh, Ethanim
- 1 Kings 8:2 And all the men of Israel came together to King Solomon at the feast in the seventh month, the month of Ethanim.
Names of the Twelve: Sixth, Elul
- Nehemiah 6:15 So the wall was completed in fifty-two days, on the twenty-fifth of Elul.
Names of the Twelve: Tenth, Tebeth
- Esther 2:16 She was taken to King Xerxes in the royal palace in the tenth month, the month of Tebeth, in the seventh year of his reign.
Names of the Twelve: Third, Sivan
- Esther 8:9 At once the royal scribes were summoned, and on the twenty-third day of the third month (the month of Sivan), they recorded all of Mordecai’s orders to the Jews and to the satraps, governors, and princes of the 127 provinces from …
Names of the Twelve: Twelfth, Adar
- Ezra 6:15 And this temple was completed on the third day of the month of Adar, in the sixth year of the reign of King Darius.
- Esther 3:7 In the twelfth year of King Xerxes, in the first month, the month of Nisan, the Pur (that is, the lot) was cast before Haman to determine a day and month. And the lot fell on the twelfth month, the month of Adar.
Observance of, Condemned
- Galatians 4:10 You are observing special days and months and seasons and years!
Originally had No Names
- Genesis 7:11 In the six hundredth year of Noah’s life, on the seventeenth day of the second month, all the fountains of the great deep burst forth, and the floodgates of the heavens were opened.
- Genesis 8:4 On the seventeenth day of the seventh month, the ark came to rest on the mountains of Ararat.
Sun and Moon Designed to Mark Out
- Genesis 1:14 And God said, “Let there be lights in the expanse of the sky to distinguish between the day and the night, and let them be signs to mark the seasons and days and years.
The Jews Computed Time By
- Judges 11:37 She also said to her father, “Let me do this one thing: Let me wander for two months through the mountains with my friends and mourn my virginity.”
- 1 Samuel 6:1 When the ark of the LORD had been in the land of the Philistines seven months,
- 1 Kings 4:7 Solomon had twelve governors over all Israel to provide food for the king and his household. Each one would arrange provisions for one month of the year,
The Patriarchs Computed Time By
- Genesis 29:14 Then Laban declared, “You are indeed my own flesh and blood.” After Jacob had stayed with him a month,
The Year Composed of Twelve
- 1 Chronicles 27:2–15 Jashobeam son of Zabdiel was in charge of the first division, which was assigned the first month. There were 24,000 men in his division. …
- Esther 2:12 In the twelve months before her turn to go to King Xerxes, the harem regulation required each young woman to receive beauty treatments with oil of myrrh for six months, and then with perfumes and cosmetics for another six months.
- Revelation 22:2 down the middle of the main street of the city. On either side of the river stood a tree of life, bearing twelve kinds of fruit and yielding a fresh crop for each month. And the leaves of the tree are for the healing of the nations.
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Topics: Nave’s Topical Bible (1896) and Torrey’s New Topical Textbook (1897), public domain, via the Berean Bible topical index.