Jar

JAR, or Jiar, an Hebrew month, which answers to our April. It was the eighth of the civil, and second of the sacred Year. It consisted but of nine and twenty days. Upon the tenth day of this month the Jews mourn the death of Eli the High-Prieft, and of his two sons Hophni and Phinehas. They who could not observe the Passover in the month Nisan, keep it in the month Jar. On the fifteenth of this month, God sent a prodigious quantity of quails to the Hebrews in the wilderness; and on the sixteenth the Manna began to fall. On the eighteenth day began their wheat-harvest, three and thirty days after the Passover. On the twenty-third, they celebrate a Festival in memory of the purification of the Temple, by Judas Maccabæus, after he had driven the Syrians out of it. On the twenty-ninth they commemorate the death of the Prophet Samuel.

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