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ESDRAS, THE SECOND (FOURTH) BOOK OF; APOCALYPTIC ESDRAS

Or The Apocalyptic Esdras:

Contents

1. Name 2. Contents 3. Language 4. Versions 5. Origin of the Book 6. Date

LITERATURE

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This book was not received by the Council of Trent as canonical, nor has it ever been acknowledged as such by the Anglican church.

1. Name:

The book is not found in the Septuagint and no complete copy of the Greek text is known, though at one time it did exist. The oldest extant name is "The Prophet Ezra" (Esdras ho prophetes; see Clement of Alexandria, Strom., iii.16): It has been often called the Latin Esdras because it exists more completely in that language; compare the name Greek Esdras for 1 Esdras.

3 Esdras is the designation in old editions of the Vulgate, 1 Esdras being Ezra and Nehemiah, 2 Esdras denoting what in English is called 1 Esdras. But in editions of the Vulgate (Jerome's Latin Bible, 390-405 A.D.) later than the Council of Trent, and also in Walton's Polyglot, Ezra is called 1 Esdras, Nehemiah, 2 Esdras, 1 Esdras = 3 Esdras, the present book (the Latin Esdras) being known as 4 Esdras. In authorized copies of the Vulgate, i.e. in those commonly used, this book is lacking. On account of its contents, Westcott, following the example of Anastasius Sinaita (bishop of Antioch from 559 A.D.), called the book the "Apocalypse of Esdras." But as Tischendorf in 1866 edited a later and inferior work with this title the present writer suggests the name "The Apocalyptic Esdras." Of all the Jewish apocalypses this is the sublimest and most pleading.

See APOCALYPTIC LITERATURE, sec. II, 1, 5.

2. Contents:

The original work consists of 2 Esdras 3-14, chapters 1 and 15 being late additions. The entire book of 16 chapters exists in the Latin version only, the other versions containing chapters 3-14 only. The real 2nd (apocalyptic) Esdras, consisting of chapters 3-14, is made up of 7 visions given to Ezra in exile 30 years after the destruction of Jerusalem by the Babylonians. The drift of these visions is, How can a just and loving God allow His own people to suffer so much? The problem thus raised is fully and beautifully dealt with. For lack of space the present writer must refer for a fuller analysis to the article APOCALYPTIC LITERATURE, sec. I, 5, and the literature there cited. For 2 Esdras 1 and 15 see under ESDRAS 5 AND 6.

3. Language:

Though no complete text even of 2 Esdras 3-14 has survived, a careful examination of the Latin shows that it has been made from a Greek original.

(1) Some fragments of the Greek can be traced, as 5:35 in Clement of Alexandria and 8:23 in the Apostolical Constitutions.

(2) The order of the twelve prophets in 1:39 follows that in the Septuagint.

(3) The Latin version bears throughout clear traces of Greek idiom.

Thus the gen. is used with the comparative (5:3; 11:29); we have the genitive (not ablative) absolute in 10:9, the double negative and the use of de (Greek apo) and ex (Greek ek) with the genitive in various parts. But there are cogent reasons for concluding that the Greek version implied in the Latin itself implies a Hebrew original, and the proof is similar to that of a Greek version as the basis of the Latin In the Greek there are idioms which are Hebrew, not Greek, not even in their frequency Hellenistic Greek. The participle used to strengthen the finite verb is the regular Hebrew idiom of the absolute with the finite verb: see 4:2 (excedens excessit); 5:30 (odiens odisti). For other examples see Gunkel (in Kautzsch, Die Apokryphen u. Pseud. des Altes Testament, 332); R. H. Charles (Enc Brit, X, 106). Ewald was the first to defend a Hebrew original, but in 1866 he was followed by his distinguished pupil Wellhausen and also by R. H. Charles (Apoc Bar, lxxii).

4. Versions:

(1) Latin.

The Latin version is far the most important and on it the English Versions of the Bible depends. But all published editions of the Latin text (those of Fabricius, Hilgenfeld, Fritzsche, etc.) go back to one and the same MS, the so-called Codex Sangermanensis (date 822), which omits a large part of the text between 2 Esdras 7:36 and 7:37 Any reader of the English text can see the lack of continuity between these verses. In 1875 Bensly published the missing fragment with an Introduction and critical notes. In 1895 Bensly and James published a critical edition of The Fourth Book of Ezra in Latin, restoring the missing fragment and correcting with the aid of the best-known manuscripts.

(2) Other Versions.

There are Syriac (Peshitta), Ethiopic, Arabic, Armenian and yet other VSS, but all depend on the lost Greek except one of the two extant Arabic translations. The number and variety of versions show that 2 Esdras was widely circulated. By the Greek and Latin Fathers it was quoted as a genuine prophetical work. Its importance in the estimation of the medieval Roman church is vouched for by the fact that it has reached us in a number of wellknown manuscripts of the Scriptures, and that it was added to the authorized Vulgate (Jerome's Latin Bible, 390-405 A.D.) as an appendix.

5. Origin of the Book:

Two main views may briefly be noted:

(1) That of Kabisch (Das vierte Buch Esra, 1889) who holds that the editor of the book freely used a goodly number of sources, subtracting, adding and altering to suit his purpose. He gives a list of probable sources. R. H. Charles (Enc Brit, X, 107) is inclined to adopt this analysis.

(2) Gunkel (loc. cit.) maintains and tries to prove that the book is the production of a single writer. Yet he admits that the book contains a large number of inconsistencies which he explains by assuming that the editor made free use of oral and written traditions. The two views do not therefore stand very far apart, for both take for granted that several sources have been used. It is simply a question of more or less.

Wellhausen is probably right in saying that the author of 2 (4) Esdras had before him the Apocrypha of Baruch, written under the impression awakened by the destruction of Jerusalem in 71 A.D.

6. Date:

The opinion of the best modern scholars is that the book was written somewhere in the East in the last decade of the 1st century of our era. This conclusion rests mainly on the most likely interpretation of the vision of the Eagle and the Lion in 2 Esdras 11:1-12:51; but also on the fact that Clement of Alexandria (died 217 A.D.) quotes the Greek of 5:35.

LITERATURE.

Besides the literature referred to above see Schurer, A Hist of the Jewish People in the Time of Jesus Christ, II, iii, 93 (Ger. edition 4, III, 315); the articles in HDB (Thackeray) and Encyclopedia Biblica (James); the New Sch-Herz under the word "Pseudepigrapha, Old Testament" (G. Beer), and in the present work under APOCRYPHA and APOCALYPTIC LITERATURE.

T. Witton Davies

ESDRAS, FOURTH BOOK OF

See APOCALYPTIC LITERATURE, sec. II, i, 5.

FOURTH PART

See FOUR.

Greek

5067. tetartos -- fourth
... tetartos. 5067a . fourth. Part of Speech: Adjective Transliteration: tetartos
Phonetic Spelling: (tet'-ar-tos) Short Definition: fourth Definition: fourth. ...
//strongsnumbers.com/greek2/5067.htm - 6k

5067a. tetartos -- fourth
... tetartos. 5067b . fourth. Transliteration: tetartos Short Definition: fourth. ... num.
from tessares Definition fourth NASB Word Usage four (1), fourth (9). ...
//strongsnumbers.com/greek2/5067a.htm - 5k

2835. kodrantes -- quadrans, one-fourth of an as (a Roman monetary ...
... quadrans, one-fourth of an as (a Roman monetary unit). Part of Speech: Noun, Masculine
Transliteration: kodrantes Phonetic Spelling: (kod-ran'-tace) Short ...
//strongsnumbers.com/greek2/2835.htm - 7k

5066b. tetartaios -- of the fourth day
... of the fourth day. Transliteration: tetartaios Short Definition: four. Word Origin
from tetartos Definition of the fourth day NASB Word Usage four days (1). ...
//strongsnumbers.com/greek2/5066b.htm - 5k

5068a. tetraarches -- a tetrarch (the governor of a fourth part of ...
... 5068, 5068a. tetraarches. 5068b . a tetrarch (the governor of a fourth part
of a region). Transliteration: tetraarches Short Definition: tetrarch. ...
//strongsnumbers.com/greek2/5068a.htm - 5k

5068. tetragonos -- a tetrarch (the governor of a fourth part of a ...
... a tetrarch (the governor of a fourth part of a region). Part of Speech: Adjective
Transliteration: tetragonos Phonetic Spelling: (tet-rag'-o-nos) Short ...
//strongsnumbers.com/greek2/5068.htm - 6k

5066. tetartaios -- of forty years
... of Speech: Adjective Transliteration: tetartaios Phonetic Spelling: (tet-ar-tah'-
yos) Short Definition: four days since Definition: of the fourth day, four ...
//strongsnumbers.com/greek2/5066.htm - 5k

5076. tetrarches -- tetrarch.
... Masculine Transliteration: tetrarches Phonetic Spelling: (tet-rar'-khace) Short
Definition: a tetrarch Definition: a tetrarch, ruler over a fourth part of a ...
//strongsnumbers.com/greek2/5076.htm - 6k

5598. O -- the last letter of the Gr. alphabet
... [ is the twenty-fourth (final) letter of the Greek alphabet, which begins with 1 ("").
Word Origin ie omega Definition the last letter of the Gr. ...
//strongsnumbers.com/greek2/5598.htm - 7k

2804. Klaudios -- Claudius, the name of an Emperor, also an army ...
... of Speech: Noun, Masculine Transliteration: Klaudios Phonetic Spelling:
(klow'-dee-os) Short Definition: Claudius Definition: (a) Claudius, the fourth of ...
//strongsnumbers.com/greek2/2804.htm - 6k

Strong's Hebrew

7243. rebii -- fourth
rebii or rebii. 7242, 7243. rebii or rebii. 7244 . fourth. Transliteration:
rebii or rebii Phonetic Spelling: (reb-ee-ee') Short Definition: fourth. ...
/hebrew/7243.htm - 6k

7256. ribbea -- pertaining to the fourth
... 7255, 7256. ribbea. 7257 . pertaining to the fourth. Transliteration: ribbea
Phonetic Spelling: (rib-bay'-ah) Short Definition: fourth. ...
/hebrew/7256.htm - 6k

7255. roba -- fourth part
... 7254, 7255. roba. 7256 . fourth part. Transliteration: roba Phonetic Spelling:
(ro'-bah) Short Definition: fourth. Word Origin from ...
/hebrew/7255.htm - 6k

7253. reba -- fourth part, four sides (pl.)
... 7252, 7253. reba. 7254 . fourth part, four sides (pl.). Transliteration:
reba Phonetic Spelling: (reh'-bah) Short Definition: sides. ...
/hebrew/7253.htm - 6k

7244. rebii -- fourth
... 7243, 7244. rebii. 7245 . fourth. Transliteration: rebii Phonetic Spelling:
(reb-ee-ah'-ee) Short Definition: fourth. Word Origin ...
/hebrew/7244.htm - 6k

702. arba -- four
... 2), any of their four (1), four (167), four things (1), four-fifths* (1), four-footed*
(1), fours (4), fourteen* (17), fourteenth* (23), fourth (4), thirty-four ...
/hebrew/702.htm - 6k

7637. shebii -- seventh (an ordinal number)
... Word Origin from sheba Definition seventh (an ord. number) NASB Word Usage
fourth (1), seventh (96), seventh year (1). seventh time. ...
/hebrew/7637.htm - 6k

6242. esrim -- twenty
... 928* (1), twentieth (9), twenty (111), twenty-eight* (4), twenty-fifth* (3),
twenty-first* (4), twenty-five* (22), twenty-four* (3), twenty-fourth* (9), twenty ...
/hebrew/6242.htm - 6k

Library

The Fourth
... THE FOURTH. ... The promise is given in this fourth Epistle, because the prophecy
of Numbers xxiv..17-19 has never yet been really fulfilled. ...
//christianbookshelf.org/bullinger/commentary on revelation/the fourth.htm

Of the Fourth Seal.
... THE FIRST PART Of the Fourth Seal. The index of the fourth seal is the
fourth animal, in the likeness of an eagle, its station to ...
//christianbookshelf.org/mede/a key to the apocalypse/of the fourth seal.htm

The Fourth Seal.
... EXPOSITION OF THE APOCALYPSE. The Fourth Seal. "And when he opened the fourth
seal, I heard the voice of the fourth living being saying, Come! ...
/.../bliss/a brief commentary on the apocalypse/the fourth seal.htm

From the Fourth Chapter.
... from the fourth chapter. 1. "After this, I beheld, and, lo, a door was opened in
heaven."] The new testament is announced as an open door in heaven. ...
/.../commentary on the apocolypse of the blessed john/from the fourth chapter.htm

The Fourth vial.
... EXPOSITION OF THE APOCALYPSE. The Fourth Vial. "And the fourth angel poured out
his vial on the sun; and it was given him to burn men with fire. ...
/.../bliss/a brief commentary on the apocalypse/the fourth vial.htm

The Fourth Trumpet.
... A MEMORABLE SENTENCE, The Fourth Trumpet. The fourth trumpet having advanced
a little farther, proceeded to take away entirely the ...
//christianbookshelf.org/mede/a key to the apocalypse/the fourth trumpet.htm

Fourth Conversation
... CONVERSATIONS FOURTH CONVERSATION. The manner of going to God. * Hearty
renunciation. * Prayer and praise prevent discouragement. ...
/.../lawrence/the practice of the presence of god/fourth conversation.htm

Fourth Letter
... LETTERS FOURTH LETTER. Writes of himself as of a third person, and encourages his
correspondent to press on to fuller practising of the Presence of God. ...
/.../lawrence/the practice of the presence of god/fourth letter.htm

Fourth Address.
... FOURTH ADDRESS. I think, dear friends, that I have only a very few words
to say to you now. I am, as it were, holding on to God ...
//christianbookshelf.org/booth/godliness/fourth address.htm

Fourth Chapter
... The History and Life of the Reverend Doctor John Tauler. FOURTH CHAPTER.
How God had wrought a great miracle through this pious man ...
/.../the history and life of the reverend doctor john tauler/fourth chapter.htm

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary

1. (a.) Next in order after the third; the ordinal of four.

2. (a.) Forming one of four equal parts into which anything may be divided.

3. (n.) One of four equal parts into which one whole may be divided; the quotient of a unit divided by four; one coming next in order after the third.

4. (n.) The interval of two tones and a semitone, embracing four diatonic degrees of the scale; the subdominant of any key.

Thesaurus

Fourth (87 Occurrences)
... Int. Standard Bible Encyclopedia. ESDRAS, THE SECOND (FOURTH) BOOK OF;
APOCALYPTIC ESDRAS. ... T. Witton Davies. ESDRAS, FOURTH BOOK OF. ...
/f/fourth.htm - 43k

Twenty-fourth (9 Occurrences)
Twenty-fourth. Twenty-four, Twenty-fourth. Twenty-nine .
Multi-Version Concordance Twenty-fourth (9 Occurrences). 1 ...
/t/twenty-fourth.htm - 9k

One-fourth (3 Occurrences)
One-fourth. One-fifth, One-fourth. One-god . Multi-Version
Concordance One-fourth (3 Occurrences). Exodus 29:40 And ...
/o/one-fourth.htm - 7k

Quarter (33 Occurrences)
... 1. (n.) One of four equal parts into which anything is divided, or is regarded as
divided; a fourth part or portion; as, a quarter of a dollar, of a pound, of ...
/q/quarter.htm - 21k

Drink-offering (33 Occurrences)
... One-fourth of an hin of wine was required for one lamb, one-third for a
ram, and one-half for a bullock (Numbers 15:5; 28:7, 14). ...
/d/drink-offering.htm - 18k

Hin (19 Occurrences)
... Exodus 29:40 and with the one lamb a tenth part of an ephah of fine flour mixed
with the fourth part of a hin of beaten oil, and the fourth part of a hin of ...
/h/hin.htm - 13k

Visiting (10 Occurrences)
... nor serve them, for I, Yahweh your God, am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity
of the fathers on the children, on the third and on the fourth generation of ...
/v/visiting.htm - 10k

Libation (29 Occurrences)
... Exodus 29:40 and a tenth 'deal' of fine flour, mixed with beaten oil, a fourth part
of a hin, and a libation, a fourth part of a hin, of wine, 'is' for the one ...
/l/libation.htm - 15k

Ninth (35 Occurrences)
... 2 Kings 25:3 On the ninth day of the fourth month the famine was sore in the
city, so that there was no bread for the people of the land. ...
/n/ninth.htm - 18k

Charging (27 Occurrences)
... them, nor serve them: for I, Jehovah thy God, 'am' a zealous God, charging iniquity
of fathers on sons, on the third 'generation', and on the fourth, of those ...
/c/charging.htm - 14k

Bible Concordance

Fourth (87 Occurrences)

Matthew 14:25 In the fourth watch of the night, Jesus came to them, walking on the sea.
(WEB KJV ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

Mark 6:48 Seeing them distressed in rowing, for the wind was contrary to them, about the fourth watch of the night he came to them, walking on the sea, and he would have passed by them,
(WEB KJV ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

1 Corinthians 1:12 What I mean is that each of you is a partisan. One man says "I belong to Paul;" another "I belong to Apollos;" a third "I belong to Peter;" a fourth "I belong to Christ."
(WEY)

Revelation 4:7 The first creature was like a lion, and the second creature like a calf, and the third creature had a face like a man, and the fourth was like a flying eagle.
(WEB KJV WEY ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

Revelation 6:7 When he opened the fourth seal, I heard the fourth living creature saying, "Come and see!"
(WEB KJV WEY ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

Revelation 6:8 And behold, a pale horse, and he who sat on it, his name was Death. Hades followed with him. Authority over one fourth of the earth, to kill with the sword, with famine, with death, and by the wild animals of the earth was given to him.
(WEB KJV WEY ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

Revelation 8:12 The fourth angel sounded, and one third of the sun was struck, and one third of the moon, and one third of the stars; so that one third of them would be darkened, and the day wouldn't shine for one third of it, and the night in the same way.
(WEB KJV WEY ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

Revelation 16:8 The fourth poured out his bowl on the sun, and it was given to him to scorch men with fire.
(WEB KJV WEY ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

Revelation 21:19 The foundations of the city's wall were adorned with all kinds of precious stones. The first foundation was jasper; the second, sapphire; the third, chalcedony; the fourth, emerald;
(WEB KJV WEY ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

Genesis 1:19 There was evening and there was morning, a fourth day.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

Genesis 2:14 The name of the third river is Hiddekel: this is the one which flows in front of Assyria. The fourth river is the Euphrates.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

Genesis 15:16 In the fourth generation they will come here again, for the iniquity of the Amorite is not yet full."
(WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

Exodus 20:5 you shall not bow yourself down to them, nor serve them, for I, Yahweh your God, am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children, on the third and on the fourth generation of those who hate me,
(WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

Exodus 28:20 and the fourth row a chrysolite, an onyx, and a jasper: they shall be enclosed in gold in their settings.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

Exodus 29:40 and with the one lamb a tenth part of an ephah of fine flour mixed with the fourth part of a hin of beaten oil, and the fourth part of a hin of wine for a drink offering.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV)

Exodus 34:7 keeping loving kindness for thousands, forgiving iniquity and disobedience and sin; and that will by no means clear the guilty, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children, and on the children's children, on the third and on the fourth generation."
(WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

Exodus 39:13 and the fourth row, a chrysolite, an onyx, and a jasper. They were enclosed in gold settings.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

Leviticus 19:24 But in the fourth year all its fruit shall be holy, for giving praise to Yahweh.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

Leviticus 23:13 The meal offering with it shall be two tenth parts of an ephah of fine flour mingled with oil, an offering made by fire to Yahweh for a pleasant aroma; and the drink offering with it shall be of wine, the fourth part of a hin.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV)

Numbers 7:30 On the fourth day Elizur the son of Shedeur, prince of the children of Reuben
(WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

Numbers 14:18 'Yahweh is slow to anger, and abundant in loving kindness, forgiving iniquity and disobedience; and that will by no means clear the guilty, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children, on the third and on the fourth generation.'
(WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

Numbers 15:4 then he who offers his offering shall offer to Yahweh a meal offering of a tenth part of an ephah of fine flour mixed with the fourth part of a hin of oil:
(WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV)

Numbers 15:5 and wine for the drink offering, the fourth part of a hin, you shall prepare with the burnt offering, or for the sacrifice, for each lamb.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV)

Numbers 23:10 Who can count the dust of Jacob, or number the fourth part of Israel? Let me die the death of the righteous! Let my last end be like his!"
(WEB KJV ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

Numbers 28:5 with the tenth part of an ephah of fine flour for a meal offering, mixed with the fourth part of a hin of beaten oil.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV)

Numbers 28:7 Its drink offering shall be the fourth part of a hin for the one lamb. You shall pour out a drink offering of strong drink to Yahweh in the holy place.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV)

Numbers 28:14 Their drink offerings shall be half a hin of wine for a bull, and the third part of a hin for the ram, and the fourth part of a hin for a lamb: this is the burnt offering of every month throughout the months of the year.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV)

Numbers 29:23 "'On the fourth day ten bulls, two rams, fourteen male lambs a year old without blemish;
(WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

Deuteronomy 5:9 you shall not bow down yourself to them, nor serve them; for I, Yahweh, your God, am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children, and on the third and on the fourth generation of those who hate me;
(WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

Joshua 19:17 The fourth lot came out for Issachar, even for the children of Issachar according to their families.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

Judges 14:15 So on the fourth day they said to Samson's wife, Get from your husband the answer to his question by some trick or other, or we will have you and your father's house burned with fire; did you get us here to take all we have?
(BBE DBY NAS RSV NIV)

Judges 19:5 It happened on the fourth day, that they arose early in the morning, and he rose up to depart: and the young lady's father said to his son-in-law, "Strengthen your heart with a morsel of bread, and afterward you shall go your way."
(WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

1 Samuel 9:8 The servant answered Saul again, and said, "Behold, I have in my hand the fourth part of a shekel of silver. I will give that to the man of God, to tell us our way."
(WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV)

2 Samuel 3:4 and the fourth, Adonijah the son of Haggith; and the fifth, Shephatiah the son of Abital;
(WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

1 Kings 6:1 It happened in the four hundred and eightieth year after the children of Israel were come out of the land of Egypt, in the fourth year of Solomon's reign over Israel, in the month Ziv, which is the second month, that he began to build the house of Yahweh.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

1 Kings 6:33 So also made he for the entrance of the temple door posts of olive wood, out of a fourth part of the wall;
(WEB KJV ASV DBY WBS YLT)

1 Kings 6:37 In the fourth year was the foundation of the house of Yahweh laid, in the month Ziv.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

1 Kings 22:41 Jehoshaphat the son of Asa began to reign over Judah in the fourth year of Ahab king of Israel.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

2 Kings 6:25 There was a great famine in Samaria. Behold, they besieged it, until a donkey's head was sold for eighty pieces of silver, and the fourth part of a kab of dove's dung for five pieces of silver.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS NAS RSV)

2 Kings 10:30 Yahweh said to Jehu, "Because you have done well in executing that which is right in my eyes, and have done to the house of Ahab according to all that was in my heart, your sons of the fourth generation shall sit on the throne of Israel."
(WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

2 Kings 15:12 This was the word of Yahweh which he spoke to Jehu, saying, "Your sons to the fourth generation shall sit on the throne of Israel." So it came to pass.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

2 Kings 18:9 It happened in the fourth year of king Hezekiah, which was the seventh year of Hoshea son of Elah king of Israel, that Shalmaneser king of Assyria came up against Samaria, and besieged it.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

2 Kings 25:3 On the ninth day of the fourth month the famine was sore in the city, so that there was no bread for the people of the land.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS NAS RSV NIV)

1 Chronicles 2:14 Nethanel the fourth, Raddai the fifth,
(WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

1 Chronicles 3:2 the third, Absalom the son of Maacah the daughter of Talmai king of Geshur; the fourth, Adonijah the son of Haggith;
(WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

1 Chronicles 3:15 The sons of Josiah: the firstborn Johanan, the second Jehoiakim, the third Zedekiah, the fourth Shallum.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

1 Chronicles 8:2 Nohah the fourth, and Rapha the fifth.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

1 Chronicles 12:10 Mishmannah the fourth, Jeremiah the fifth,
(WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

1 Chronicles 23:19 The sons of Hebron: Jeriah the chief, Amariah the second, Jahaziel the third, and Jekameam the fourth.
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1 Chronicles 24:8 the third to Harim, the fourth to Seorim,
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1 Chronicles 24:23 The sons of Hebron : Jeriah the chief, Amariah the second, Jahaziel the third, Jekameam the fourth.
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1 Chronicles 25:11 the fourth to Izri, his sons and his brothers, twelve:
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1 Chronicles 26:2 Meshelemiah had sons: Zechariah the firstborn, Jediael the second, Zebadiah the third, Jathniel the fourth,
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1 Chronicles 26:4 Obed-Edom had sons: Shemaiah the firstborn, Jehozabad the second, Joah the third, and Sacar the fourth, and Nethanel the fifth,
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1 Chronicles 26:11 Hilkiah the second, Tebaliah the third, Zechariah the fourth: all the sons and brothers of Hosah were thirteen.
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1 Chronicles 27:7 The fourth captain for the fourth month was Asahel the brother of Joab, and Zebadiah his son after him: and in his division were twenty-four thousand.
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2 Chronicles 3:2 He began to build in the second day of the second month, in the fourth year of his reign.
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2 Chronicles 20:26 On the fourth day they assembled themselves in the valley of Beracah; for there they blessed Yahweh: therefore the name of that place was called The valley of Beracah to this day.
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Ezra 8:33 On the fourth day the silver and the gold and the vessels were weighed in the house of our God into the hand of Meremoth the son of Uriah the priest; and with him was Eleazar the son of Phinehas; and with them was Jozabad the son of Jeshua, and Noadiah the son of Binnui, the Levite;
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Nehemiah 9:1 Now in the twenty-fourth day of this month the children of Israel were assembled with fasting, and with sackcloth, and earth on them.
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Nehemiah 9:3 They stood up in their place, and read in the book of the law of Yahweh their God a fourth part of the day; and another fourth part they confessed, and worshiped Yahweh their God.
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Job 42:16 And after this Job lived a hundred and forty years, and saw his sons, and his sons' sons, even four generations.
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Jeremiah 25:1 The word that came to Jeremiah concerning all the people of Judah, in the fourth year of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah, king of Judah (the same was the first year of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon),
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Jeremiah 28:1 It happened the same year, in the beginning of the reign of Zedekiah king of Judah, in the fourth year, in the fifth month, that Hananiah the son of Azzur, the prophet, who was of Gibeon, spoke to me in the house of Yahweh, in the presence of the priests and of all the people, saying,
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Jeremiah 36:1 It happened in the fourth year of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah, king of Judah, that this word came to Jeremiah from Yahweh, saying,
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Jeremiah 39:2 in the eleventh year of Zedekiah, in the fourth month, the ninth day of the month, a breach was made in the city),
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Jeremiah 45:1 The message that Jeremiah the prophet spoke to Baruch the son of Neriah, when he wrote these words in a book at the mouth of Jeremiah, in the fourth year of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah, king of Judah, saying,
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Jeremiah 46:2 Of Egypt: concerning the army of Pharaoh Necoh king of Egypt, which was by the river Euphrates in Carchemish, which Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon struck in the fourth year of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah, king of Judah.
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Jeremiah 51:59 The word which Jeremiah the prophet commanded Seraiah the son of Neriah, the son of Mahseiah, when he went with Zedekiah the king of Judah to Babylon in the fourth year of his reign. Now Seraiah was chief quartermaster.
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Jeremiah 52:6 In the fourth month, in the ninth day of the month, the famine was sore in the city, so that there was no bread for the people of the land.
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Ezekiel 1:1 Now it happened in the thirtieth year, in the fourth month, in the fifth day of the month, as I was among the captives by the river Chebar, that the heavens were opened, and I saw visions of God.
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Ezekiel 10:14 Every one had four faces: the first face was the face of the cherub, and the second face was the face of a man, and the third face the face of a lion, and the fourth the face of an eagle.
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Daniel 2:40 The fourth kingdom shall be strong as iron, because iron breaks in pieces and subdues all things; and as iron that crushes all these, shall it break in pieces and crush.
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Daniel 3:25 He answered, Look, I see four men loose, walking in the midst of the fire, and they have no hurt; and the aspect of the fourth is like a son of the gods.
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Daniel 7:7 After this I saw in the night visions, and, behold, a fourth animal, awesome and powerful, and strong exceedingly; and it had great iron teeth; it devoured and broke in pieces, and stamped the residue with its feet: and it was diverse from all the animals that were before it; and it had ten horns.
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Daniel 7:19 Then I desired to know the truth concerning the fourth animal, which was diverse from all of them, exceedingly terrible, whose teeth were of iron, and its nails of brass; which devoured, broke in pieces, and stamped the residue with its feet;
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Daniel 7:23 Thus he said, The fourth animal shall be a fourth kingdom on earth, which shall be diverse from all the kingdoms, and shall devour the whole earth, and shall tread it down, and break it in pieces.
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Daniel 10:4 And on the twenty-fourth day of the first month I was by the side of the great river;
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Daniel 11:2 Now will I show you the truth. Behold, there shall stand up yet three kings in Persia; and the fourth shall be far richer than they all: and when he has grown strong through his riches, he shall stir up all against the realm of Greece.
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Haggai 1:15 in the twenty-fourth day of the month, in the sixth month, in the second year of Darius the king.
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Haggai 2:10 In the twenty-fourth day of the ninth month, in the second year of Darius, the Word of Yahweh came by Haggai the prophet, saying,
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Haggai 2:18 'Consider, please, from this day and backward, from the twenty-fourth day of the ninth month, since the day that the foundation of Yahweh's temple was laid, consider it.
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Haggai 2:20 The Word of Yahweh came the second time to Haggai in the twenty-fourth day of the month, saying,
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Zechariah 1:7 On the twenty-fourth day of the eleventh month, which is the month Shebat, in the second year of Darius, the word of Yahweh came to Zechariah the son of Berechiah, the son of Iddo, the prophet, saying,
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Zechariah 6:3 in the third chariot white horses; and in the fourth chariot dappled horses, all of them powerful.
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Zechariah 7:1 It happened in the fourth year of king Darius that the word of Yahweh came to Zechariah in the fourth day of the ninth month, the month of Chislev.
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Zechariah 8:19 Thus says Yahweh of Armies: "The fasts of the fourth fifth, seventh, and tenth months shall be for the house of Judah joy and gladness, and cheerful feasts. Therefore love truth and peace."
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Fourth

Fourth Part

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