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1 Kings 8:2

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

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Ethanim;   Government;   Month;   Thompson Chain Reference - Dedication;   Ethanim;   Months;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Ark of the Covenant;   Dedication;   Feast of Tabernacles, the;   Months;   Temple, the First;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Dedication;   Ethanim;   Tishri or Tisri;   Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Tabernacle;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Psalms, Theology of;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Dedication, Feast of the;   Ethanim;   Tabernacles, Feast of;   Tisri;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Dedication, Feast of;   Month;   Nehemiah;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Ethanim;   Festivals;   Kings, 1 and 2;   Temple of Jerusalem;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Ethanim;   Israel;   Solomon;   Time;   Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament - Dates (2);   Tabernacles, Feast of;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Ark of God;   Dedication, Feast of;   The Hawker's Poor Man's Concordance And Dictionary - Month;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Jerusalem;   Smith Bible Dictionary - Month;   Tabernacles, the Feast of;   Watson's Biblical & Theological Dictionary - Ethanim;   Months;   Temple;  

Encyclopedias:

- Condensed Biblical Cyclopedia - Hebrew Calendar;   Hebrew Monarchy, the;   International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Ethanim;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Tabernacles, Feast of;  

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.
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.
Complete Jewish Bible
All the men of Isra'el assembled before King Shlomo at the festival in the month of Etanim, 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 King Salomon assembled the Elders of Israel, euen all the heads of the tribes, the chiefe fathers of the children of Israel vnto him in Ierusalem, for to bring vp the Arke of the couenant of the Lorde from the citie of Dauid, which is Zion. 2 And all the men of Israel assembled vnto King Salomon at the feast in the moneth of Ethanim, which is the seuenth moneth. 3 And all the Elders of Israel came and the Priests tooke the Arke. 4 They bare the Arke of the Lorde, and they bare the Tabernacle of the Congregation, and all the holy vessels that were in the Tabernacle: those did the Priestes and Leuites bring vp. 5 And King Salomon and all the Congregation of Israel, that were assembled vnto him, were with him before the Arke, offering sheepe and beeues, which could not be tolde, nor nombred for multitude. 6 So the Priestes brought the Arke of the couenant of the Lorde vnto his place, into the oracle of the house, into the most holy place, euen vnder the wings of the Cherubims. 7 For ye Cherubims stretched out their wings ouer the place of the Arke, and the Cherubims couered the Arke, and the barres thereof aboue. 8 And they drewe out the barres, that the endes of the barres might appeare out of the Sanctuarie before the oracle, but they were not seene without: and there they are vnto this day. 9 Nothing was in the Arke saue the two tables of stone which Moses had put there at Horeb, where the Lorde made a couenant with the children of Israel, when he brought them out of the land of Egypt. 10 And when the Priestes were come out of the Sanctuarie, the cloude filled the house of the Lorde,

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
In the sixe hundreth yeere of Noahs life in the second moneth, the seuetenth day of the moneth, in the same day were all the fountaines of the great deepe broken vp, and the windowes of heauen were opened,
Genesis 8:11
And the doue came to him in ye euening, and loe, in her mouth was an oliue leafe that she had pluckt: whereby Noah knewe that the waters were abated from off the earth.
Genesis 8:13
And in the sixe hundreth and one yeere, in the first day of the first moneth the waters were dryed vp from off the earth: and Noah remoued the couering of the Arke and looked, and beholde, the vpper part of the ground was drie.
Job 38:37
Who can nomber cloudes by wisedome? or who can cause to cease the bottels of heaue,
Proverbs 8:28
When he established the cloudes aboue, when he confirmed the fountaines of the deepe,
Jonah 2:3
For thou haddest cast me into the bottome in the middes of the sea, and the floods compassed me about: all thy surges, and all thy waues passed ouer me.
Matthew 8:9
For I am a man also vnder the authoritie of an other, and haue souldiers vnder me: and I say to one, Goe, and he goeth: and to another, Come, and he commeth: and to my seruant, Doe this, and he doeth 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.


 
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