And all the men of Judah and Benjamin gathered to Jerusalem within three days. It was the ninth month, on the twentieth of the month. And all the people sat in the plaza of the house of God, trembling because of the matter, and because of the heavy rain.
And it happened in the fifth year of Jehoiakim, the son of Josiah, king of Judah, in the ninth month, they called a fast before Jehovah, to all the people of Jerusalem, and to all the people who came from the cities of Judah to Jerusalem.
And I will strike the winter house with the summer house; and the houses of ivory shall perish, and the great houses shall be swept away, a statement of Jehovah.
And Ehud came to him. And he was sitting by himself in the roof room of coolness which was his. And Ehud said, I have a word from God to you. And he rose out of his seat.