[850] I have examined the passages by the aid of Mandelkern’s Concordance and the analysis of sources in Kautzch’s translation of the Bible: for the numbered months cp. also Wellhausen, Proleg., p. 110.
[851] I Sam. XX.
[852] First in the somewhat later narrative of Elisha, II Kings IV, 23; then in Amos VIII, 5; Isaiah I, 13; XLVII, 13; LXVI, 23, etc.
[853] Num. XXIX, 6; XXVIII, 11, 14,
[854] I Sam. XX, 28, ‘the morrow after the new moon’.
[855] First the Yahwist, Ex. XXXIV, 18, and his reviser, XIII, 4 ff.; XXIII, 15; XXXIV, 18; further the Deuteronomist, XVI, 1, and in Ex. XII, 2.
[856] Judges XI, 37 ff.
[857] One month: Lev. XXVII, 6; Num. III, (often); IX, 22; XVIII, 16; XXVI, 62; I Kings IV, 7, 27; V, 14 (in the history of Solomon); several months: I Sam. XXVII, 7 (the old History of the Kings); II Sam. II, 11; V, 5; VI, 11; XXIV, 8, 13; I Kings XI, 16; II Kings XV, 8; Deut. XXIII, 31; XXIV, 8.
[858] The Elohist, Gen. XXIX, 14; the Yahwist, Num. XI, 20; Jud. XIX, 2; XX, 47.