1 Kings 8:2
All the men of Israel assembled before King Solomon at the festival which is held in the seventh month, the month of Ethanim.
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Leviticus 23:34“Tell the Israelites that the Feast of Tabernacles to honor the Lord begins on the fifteenth day of the seventh month and lasts for seven days.
Deuteronomy 16:13Celebrate the Festival of Shelters for seven days once you have finished threshing your grain and pressing your grapes.
2 Chronicles 5:3So all the Israelites gathered to be with the king at the feast which is in the seventh month.
2 Chronicles 7:9On the eighth day they held a final assembly, for the dedication of the altar had lasted seven days, and the feast another seven days.
Nehemiah 8:14They discovered written in the Law the Lord had ordered to be observed through Moses, that the Israelites were to live in shelters during the festival of the seventh month.
John 7:2But as it was almost time for the Jewish festival of the Tabernacles,
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 →