Then all the men of Judah and Benjamin gathered themselves together unto Jerusalem within three days. It was the ninth month, on the twentieth day of the month; and all the people sat in the open square before the house of God, trembling because of this matter, and because of the heavy rain.
All Commentaries on Ezra 10:9 Go To Ezra 10
George Leo Haydock
AD 1849
Ninth. Casleu, (Zacharias vii. 1.) which corresponds with our November and December. (Menochius)
Street. Court, which afforded as yet no shelter from the rain. (Calmet)
This would tend to punish them for their sin, and to make them more sensible of it. (Worthington)