And in the fifth month and on the seventh day.

August. "It was the tenth day of the fifth month,. day memorable in Jewish annals as. day of misery, when the siege of Titus closed in like manner,--a day tragical in European annals as the tenth of August,--that Nebuzaradan, captain of the royal guard, came with orders from Nebuchadnezzar to put the finishing stroke to the work of destruction." For. month the disposition to be made of the captured city seems to have been held in suspense.

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