'Months' in the Bible

About three months later Judah was told, “Your daughter-in-law, Tamar, has been acting like a prostitute, and now she is pregnant.”“Bring her out!” Judah said. “Let her be burned to death!”

The woman became pregnant and gave birth to a son; when she saw that he was beautiful, she hid him for three months.

“This month is to be the beginning of months for you; it is the first month of your year.

You are to sound the trumpets over your burnt offerings and your fellowship sacrifices and on your joyous occasions, your appointed festivals, and the beginning of each of your months. They will serve as a reminder for you before your God: I am Yahweh your God.”

“At the beginning of each of your months present a burnt offering to the Lord: two young bulls, one ram, seven male lambs a year old—all unblemished—

Their drink offerings are to be two quarts of wine with each bull, one and a third quarts with the ram, and one quart with each male lamb. This is the monthly burnt offering for all the months of the year.

She also said to her father, “Let me do this one thing: Let me wander two months through the mountains with my friends and mourn my virginity.”

“Go,” he said. And he sent her away two months. So she left with her friends and mourned her virginity as she wandered through the mountains.

At the end of two months, she returned to her father, and he kept the vow he had made about her. And she had never been intimate with a man. Now it became a custom in Israel

But she was unfaithful to him and left him for her father’s house in Bethlehem in Judah. She was there for a period of four months.

But 600 men escaped into the wilderness to the rock of Rimmon and stayed there four months.

When the ark of the Lord had been in the land of the Philistines for seven months,

The time that David stayed in the Philistine territory amounted to a year and four months.

The length of time that David was king in Hebron over the house of Judah was seven years and six months.

In Hebron he reigned over Judah seven years and six months, and in Jerusalem he reigned 33 years over all Israel and Judah.

The ark of the Lord remained in his house three months, and the Lord blessed Obed-edom and his whole family.

When they had gone through the whole land, they returned to Jerusalem at the end of nine months and 20 days.

So Gad went to David, told him the choices, and asked him, “Do you want three years of famine to come on your land, to flee from your foes three months while they pursue you, or to have a plague in your land three days? Now, think it over and decide what answer I should take back to the One who sent me.”

He sent 10,000 to Lebanon each month in shifts; one month they were in Lebanon, two months they were at home. Adoniram was in charge of the forced labor.

For Joab and all Israel had remained there six months, until he had killed every male in Edom.

In the thirty-eighth year of Judah’s King Azariah, Zechariah son of Jeroboam became king over Israel in Samaria for six months.

Jehoahaz was 23 years old when he became king and reigned three months in Jerusalem. His mother’s name was Hamutal daughter of Jeremiah, from Libnah.

Jehoiachin was 18 years old when he became king and reigned three months in Jerusalem. His mother’s name was Nehushta daughter of Elnathan, from Jerusalem.

Six sons were born to David in Hebron, where he ruled seven years and six months, and he ruled in Jerusalem 33 years.

The ark of God remained with Obed-edom’s family in his house for three months, and the Lord blessed his family and all that he had.

three years of famine, or three months of devastation by your foes with the sword of your enemy overtaking you, or three days of the sword of the Lord—a plague on the land, the angel of the Lord bringing destruction to the whole territory of Israel.’ Now decide what answer I should take back to the One who sent me.”

Jehoahaz was 23 years old when he became king and reigned three months in Jerusalem.

Jehoiachin was 18 years old when he became king and reigned three months and 10 days in Jerusalem. He did what was evil in the Lord’s sight.

During the year before each young woman’s turn to go to King Ahasuerus, the harem regulation required her to receive beauty treatments with oil of myrrh for six months and then with perfumes and cosmetics for another six months.

So I have been made to inherit months of futility,and troubled nights have been assigned to me.

Since man’s days are determinedand the number of his months depends on You,and since You have set limits he cannot pass,

For what does he care about his family once he is dead,when the number of his months has run out?

If only I could be as in months gone by,in the days when God watched over me,

Can you count the months they are pregnantso you can know the time they give birth?

The house of Israel will spend seven months burying them in order to cleanse the land.

“They will appoint men on a full-time basis to pass through the land and bury the invaders who remain on the surface of the ground, in order to cleanse it. They will make their search at the end of the seven months.

At the end of 12 months, as he was walking on the roof of the royal palace in Babylon,

I also withheld the rain from youwhile there were still three months until harvest.I sent rain on one citybut no rain on another.One field received rainwhile a field with no rain withered.

“Ask all the people of the land and the priests: When you fasted and lamented in the fifth and in the seventh months for these 70 years, did you really fast for Me?

After these days his wife Elizabeth conceived and kept herself in seclusion for five months. She said,

And Mary stayed with her about three months; then she returned to her home.

But I say to you, there were certainly many widows in Israel in Elijah’s days, when the sky was shut up for three years and six months while a great famine came over all the land.

“Don’t you say, ‘There are still four more months, then comes the harvest’? Listen to what I’m telling you: Open your eyes and look at the fields, for they are ready for harvest.

At this time Moses was born, and he was beautiful in God’s sight. He was cared for in his father’s home three months,

And he stayed there a year and six months, teaching the word of God among them.

Then he entered the synagogue and spoke boldly over a period of three months, engaging in discussion and trying to persuade them about the things of the kingdom of God.

and stayed three months. When he was about to set sail for Syria, a plot was devised against him by the Jews, so a decision was made to go back through Macedonia.

After three months we set sail in an Alexandrian ship that had wintered at the island, with the Twin Brothers as its figurehead.

You observe special days, months, seasons, and years.

By faith, after Moses was born, he was hidden by his parents for three months, because they saw that the child was beautiful, and they didn’t fear the king’s edict.

Elijah was a man with a nature like ours; yet he prayed earnestly that it would not rain, and for three years and six months it did not rain on the land.

They were not permitted to kill them but were to torment them for five months; their torment is like the torment caused by a scorpion when it strikes a man.

and they had tails with stingers like scorpions, so that with their tails they had the power to harm people for five months.

But exclude the courtyard outside the sanctuary. Don’t measure it, because it is given to the nations, and they will trample the holy city for 42 months.

A mouth was given to him to speak boasts and blasphemies. He was also given authority to act for 42 months.