It will be a Sabbath of complete rest for you, and you shall humble yourselves. From the evening of the ninth day of the month until the following evening you are to keep your Sabbath.”
- Leviticus 23:32
By the ninth day of the fourth month, the famine in the city was so severe that the people of the land had no food.
- 2 Kings 25:3
And on the ninth day of the fourth month of Zedekiah’s eleventh year, the city was breached.
- Jeremiah 39:2
By the ninth day of the fourth month, the famine in the city was so severe that the people of the land had no food.