The Month of Adar in the Bible

The twelfth (last) month in the Jewish spiritual calendar isn't named in the Bible. In the civil or financial calendar it is the sixth month and is named Adar. In a typical year there are twenty-nine days in this month. In the Gregorian (Western) calendar it corresponds to the period from the middle of February to the middle of March. It is the time of Almond blossom, the earliest blossom of the year which is a type, a shadow or promise, of the idea of resurrection. The Babylonian king Evil-Merodach unexpectedly promoted king Jehoiachin out of prison and allowed him to live out the rest of his days in relative luxury, a type of God restoring the kindfom to Israel one day.

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