Judg 3:20, Jer 36:22 | JFB | STEP | 20. a summer parlour — Hebrew, "chamber of cooling"—one of those retired edifices which Oriental grandees usually have in their gardens, and in which they repose during the heat of the day.

Judges 3:20

20. a summer parlour—Hebrew, "chamber of cooling"—one of those retired edifices which Oriental grandees usually have in their gardens, and in which they repose during the heat of the day.

Jeremiah 36:22

22. winter house— (Am 3:15).

ninth month—namely, of the religious year, that is, November or December.

fire on . . . hearth—rather, the stove was burning before him. In the East neither chimneys nor ovens are used, but, in cold weather, a brazen vessel containing burning charcoal; when the wood has burned to embers, a cover is placed over the pot to make it retain the heat.