1 Kings 8:2

Complete Jewish Bible

All the men of Isra'el assembled before King Shlomo at the festival in the month of Etanim, the seventh month.

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
So all the men of Israel were assembled in the presence of King Solomon in the month of Ethanim, which is the seventh month, at the festival.

Hebrew Names Version
All the men of Yisra'el assembled themselves to king Shlomo at the feast, in the month Etanim, which is the seventh month.

King James Version
And all the men of Israel assembled themselves unto king Solomon at the feast in the month Ethanim, which is the seventh month.

English Standard Version
And all the men of Israel assembled to King Solomon at the feast in the month Ethanim, which is the seventh month.

New Century Version
So all the Israelites came together with King Solomon during the festival in the month of Ethanim, the seventh month.

New English Translation
All the men of Israel assembled before King Solomon during the festival in the month Ethanim (the seventh month).

Amplified Bible
All the men of Israel assembled before King Solomon at the feast in the month of Ethanim (September-October), that is, the seventh month.

New American Standard Bible
So all the men of Israel assembled themselves before King Solomon at the feast, in the month Ethanim, that is, the seventh month.

Geneva Bible (1587)
And all the men of Israel assembled vnto King Salomon at the feast in the moneth of Ethanim, which is the seuenth moneth.

Legacy Standard Bible
And all the men of Israel assembled themselves to King Solomon at the feast, in the month Ethanim, which is the seventh month.

Darby Translation
And all the men of Israel assembled themselves to king Solomon at the feast in the month Ethanim, that is, the seventh month.

Easy-to-Read Version
So during the special festival in the month of Ethanim, the seventh month of the year, all the men of Israel came to the meeting with King Solomon.

George Lamsa Translation
And all the men of Israel assembled themselves to King Solomon at the feast in the month of the harvest, which is the seventh month.

Good News Translation
They all assembled during the Festival of Shelters in the seventh month, in the month of Ethanim.

Lexham English Bible
All the men of Israel assembled before King Solomon at the festival in the month of Ethnaim, that is, the seventh month.

Literal Translation
And all the men of Israel were gathered to King Solomon, in the month of Ethanim, at the feast, which is the seventh month.

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
And there resorted vnto kynge Salomon all the men in Israel, at the feast in the moneth Ethanim, that is ye seuenth moneth.

American Standard Version
And all the men of Israel assembled themselves unto king Solomon at the feast, in the month Ethanim, which is the seventh month.

Bible in Basic English
And all the men of Israel came together to King Solomon at the feast, in the month Ethanim, the seventh month.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
And all the men of Israel assembled vnto king Solomon to the feast that falleth in the moneth Ethanim, which is the seuenth moneth.

JPS Old Testament (1917)
And all the men of Israel assembled themselves unto king Solomon at the feast, in the month Ethanim, which is the seventh month.

King James Version (1611)
And all the men of Israel assembled themselues vnto king Solomon, at the feast, in the moneth Ethanim, which is the seuenth moneth.

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
in the month of Athanin.

English Revised Version
And all the men of Israel assembled themselves unto king Solomon at the feast, in the month Ethanim, which is the seventh month.

Berean Standard Bible
And all the men of Israel came together to King Solomon at the feast in the seventh month, the month of Ethanim.

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
And al Israel cam to gidere in the moneth Bethanym, in the solempne dai; thilke is the seuenthe moneth.

Young's Literal Translation
and all the men of Israel are assembled unto king Solomon, in the month of Ethanim, in the festival -- [is] the seventh month.

Update Bible Version
And all the men of Israel assembled themselves to king Solomon at the feast, in the month Ethanim, which is the seventh month.

Webster's Bible Translation
And all the men of Israel assembled themselves to king Solomon at the feast in the month Ethanim, which [is] the seventh month.

World English Bible
All the men of Israel assembled themselves to king Solomon at the feast, in the month Ethanim, which is the seventh month.

New King James Version
Therefore all the men of Israel assembled with King Solomon at the feast in the month of Ethanim, which is the seventh month.

New Living Translation
So all the men of Israel assembled before King Solomon at the annual Festival of Shelters, which is held in early autumn in the month of Ethanim.

New Life Bible
All the men of Israel gathered to King Solomon at the special supper in the seventh month, Ethanim.

New Revised Standard
All the people of Israel assembled to King Solomon at the festival in the month Ethanim, which is the seventh month.

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
So all the men of Israel came together unto King Solomon, in the month of steady flowings, at the festival, - the same is the seventh month.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And all Israel assembled themselves to king Solomon, on the festival day, in the month of Ethanim, the same is the seventh month.

Revised Standard Version
And all the men of Israel assembled to King Solomon at the feast in the month Eth'anim, which is the seventh month.

New American Standard Bible (1995)
All the men of Israel assembled themselves to King Solomon at the feast, in the month Ethanim, which is the seventh month.

Contextual Overview

¹ Then Shlomo assembled all the leaders of Isra'el, all the heads of the tribes and the chiefs of the paternal clans of the people of Isra'el, to King Shlomo in Yerushalayim, to bring the ark for the covenant of Adonai out of the City of David, also known as Tziyon. ² All the men of Isra'el assembled before King Shlomo at the festival in the month of Etanim, the seventh month. ³ All the leaders of Isra'el came. The cohanim took the ark ⁴ and brought up the ark of Adonai , the tent of meeting and all the holy utensils that were in the tent; these are what the cohanim and L'vi'im brought up. ⁵ King Shlomo and the whole community of Isra'el assembled in his presence were with him in front of the ark, sacrificing sheep and oxen in numbers beyond counting or recording. ⁶ The cohanim brought the ark for the covenant of Adonai in to its place inside the sanctuary of the house, to the Especially Holy Place, under the wings of the k'ruvim. ⁷ For the k'ruvim spread out their wings over the place for the ark, covering the ark and its poles from above. ⁸ The poles were so long that their ends could be seen from the Holy Place in front of the sanctuary, but they could not be seen from outside; they are there to this day. ⁹ There was nothing in the ark except the two tablets of stone which Moshe put there at Horev, when Adonai made the covenant with the people of Isra'el at the time of their leaving the land of Egypt. ¹⁰ When the cohanim came out of the Holy Place, the cloud filled the house of Adonai ,

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

at the feast: Leviticus 23:34, Numbers 29:12-40, Deuteronomy 16:13, 2 Chronicles 5:3, 2 Chronicles 7:8-10, Ezra 3:4, Nehemiah 8:14-18, Zechariah 14:16-19, John 7:2, John 7:37

Reciprocal: Leviticus 16:29 - in the seventh 1 Kings 8:65 - held 1 Kings 12:32 - like unto

Cross-References

Genesis 7:11
On the seventeenth day of the second month of the 600th year of Noach's life all the fountains of the great deep were broken up, and the windows of the sky were opened.

Genesis 8:11
The dove came in to him in the evening, and there in her mouth was a freshly plucked olive leaf, so Noach knew that the water had cleared from the earth.

Genesis 8:13
By the first day of the first month of the 601st year the water had dried up from off the earth; so Noach removed the covering of the ark and looked; and, yes, the surface of the ground was dry.

Job 38:37
Who, by wisdom, can number the clouds? Who can tilt the water-skins of heaven,

Proverbs 8:28
when he set the skies above in place, when the fountains of the deep poured forth,

Jonah 2:3
he said, "Out of my distress I called to Adonai , and he answered me; from the belly of Sh'ol I cried, and you heard my voice.

Matthew 8:9
For I too am a man under authority. I have soldiers under me, and I say to this one, ‘Go!' and he goes; to another, ‘Come!' and he comes; to my slave, ‘Do this!' and he does it."

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And all the men of Israel assembled themselves unto King Solomon at the feast,.... Not of tabernacles, as the Targum on 2 Chronicles 5:3 and so Jarchi; though that was in the same month next mentioned, and began on the fifteenth of it, and held seven days; wherefore this must be the feast of the dedication of the temple, and which was kept before that; since both lasted fourteen days, and the people were dismissed on the twenty third of the month; now not only the above principal persons convened, but a vast number of the common people came to see the solemnity of removing the ark, and of dedicating the temple, and to attend the feast of it, and the more, since in a few days was the time for all the males in Israel to appear there:

in the month Ethanim, which is the seventh month; it was, as the Targum says, originally the first month; but upon the children of Israel coming out of Egypt in Ab or Nisan, that became the first month, and this was the seventh from that; and is the same with Tisri, which answers to part of September, and part of October, here called Ethanim; which some render the month of the ancients, others of strong ones; either because of the many feasts that were in it, as some say; or because it was the time of ingathering all the increase and fruits of the earth, which strengthen and support man's life; or rather of "never failing", i.e. waters, showers falling in this month, and the rivers full of water l; so September is "septimus imber", according to Isidore m, and the three following months are alike derived; this, by the Egyptians, was called Theuth, and was with them the first month in the year n; so Porphyry says o, with the Egyptians the beginning of the year was not Aquarius, as with the Romans, but Cancer; and so the month of September was the first with the Ethiopians p, and with most people q; though with the Chinese about the middle of Aquarius r. Now, though the temple was finished in the eighth month, 1 Kings 6:38, it was not dedicated until the seventh in the following year; it required time to finish the utensils and vessels, and put them in their proper place, and for the drying of the walls, &c.

l Vid. Hackman. Praecidan. Sacr. p. 130, 131. m Origin. l. 5. c. 33. n Lactant. de Fals. Felig. l. 1. c. 6. o De Antro Nymph. prope finem. p Ludolf. Lexic. Ethiopic. p. 65. & Hist. Ethiop. l. 3. c. 6. q Julian. Opera, par. 1. orat. 4. p. 290, 291. r Martin. Sinic. Hist. l. 1. p. 22.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

The feast in the month Ethanim - i. e. the Feast of Tabernacles, or the Feast of Ingathering, the commemoration of the dwelling in booths at the time of the Exodus (margin reference), and the festival of thanksgiving on account of the completion of harvest Exodus 23:16; Leviticus 23:39; Deuteronomy 16:13. It was one of the three on which the people were required to “appear before the Lord.”

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 1 Kings 8:2. At the feast in the month Ethanim — The feast of tabernacles, which was celebrated in the seventh month of what is called the ecclesiastical gear.