1 Kings 8:2
And all Israel assembled themselves to king Solomon on the festival day in the month of Ethanim, the same is the seventh month.
Douay-Rheims 1899
In The King James Version
In Context
3And all the ancients of Israel came, and the priests took up the ark,
Cross References
Leviticus 23:34Say to the children of Israel: From the fifteenth day of this same seventh month, shall be kept the feast of tabernacles seven days to the Lord.
Deuteronomy 16:13Thou shalt celebrate the solemnity also of tabernacles seven days, when thou hast gathered in thy fruit of the barnfloor and of the winepress.
2 Chronicles 5:3And all the men of Israel came to the king in the solemn day of the seventh month.
2 Chronicles 7:9And he made on the eighth day a solemn assembly, because he had kept the dedication of the altar seven days, and had celebrated the solemnity seven days.
Nehemiah 8:14And they found written in the law, that the Lord had commanded by the hand of Moses, that the children of Israel should dwell in tabernacles, on the feast, in the seventh month:
John 7:2Now the Jews' feast of tabernacles was at hand.
Matthew Henry on 1 Kings 8:2-12
The Dedication of the Temple. ( b. c. 1003.) 1 Then 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. 2 And all the men of Israel assembled themselves unto king Solomon at the feast in the month Ethanim, which is the seventh month. 3 And all the elders of Israel came, and the priests took up the ark. 4 And… Read the whole commentary →