Since it was the ninth month, the king was sitting in his winter quarters with a fire burning before him. Cross References Judges 3:20 Then Ehud approached him while he was sitting alone in the coolness of his upper room. "I have a word from God for you," Ehud said, and the king rose from his seat. Jeremiah 36:9 Now in the ninth month of the fifth year of Jehoiakim son of Josiah king of Judah, a fast before the LORD was proclaimed to all the people of Jerusalem and all who had come there from the cities of Judah. Amos 3:15 I will tear down the winter house along with the summer house; the houses of ivory will also perish, and the great houses will come to an end," declares the LORD. Treasury of Scripture Now the king sat in the winter house in the ninth month: and there was a fire on the hearth burning before him. Jeremiah 22:14-16 Jeremiah 3:20 Amos 3:15 |