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1 Kings 8:2 KJV
1 Kings · chapter 8 · verse 2
And all the men of Israel assembled themselves unto king Solomon at the feast in the month Ethanim, which is the seventh month.1 Kings 8:2 · King James Version
1 Kings 8:2 in context
1Then Solomon assembled the elders of Israel, and all the heads of the tribes, the chief of the fathers of the children of Israel, unto king Solomon in Jerusalem, that they might bring up the ark of the covenant of the LORD out of the city of David, which is Zion.
2And all the men of Israel assembled themselves unto king Solomon at the feast in the month Ethanim, which is the seventh month.
3And all the elders of Israel came, and the priests took up the ark.
4And they brought up the ark of the LORD, and the tabernacle of the congregation, and all the holy vessels that were in the tabernacle, even those did the priests and the Levites bring up.
Commentary
Key words (Strong's)
- assembledqâhalto convokeH6950 →
- SolomonShᵉlômôhShelomah, David's successorH8010 →
- EthanimʼÊythânîymEthanim, the name of a monthH388 →
- seventhshᵉbîyʻîyseventhH7637 →
- IsraelYisrâʼêlJisrael, a symbolical name of JacobH3478 →
- feastchaga festival, or a victim thereforH2282 →
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The temple, though richly beautified, yet while it was without the ark was like a body without a soul, or a candlestick without a candle, or (to speak more properly) a house without an inhabitant. All the cost and pains bestowed on this stately structure are lost if God do not accept them;
— Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on verses 1-11