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2 Chronicles 7:9

And in the eight day they made a solemne assemblie: for they had made the dedication of the altar seuen daies, and the feast seuen dayes.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Dedication;   Protracted Meetings;  

Dictionaries:

- Fausset Bible Dictionary - Tabernacles, Feast of;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Chronicles, I;   Solomon;   Tabernacles, Feast of;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Assembly;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Atonement, Day of;   Solemn;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Festivals;   Pilgrimage;   Shemini 'Aẓeret;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
On the eighth day they held a sacred assembly, for the dedication of the altar lasted seven days and the festival seven days.
Hebrew Names Version
On the eighth day they held a solemn assembly: for they kept the dedication of the altar seven days, and the feast seven days.
King James Version
And in the eighth day they made a solemn assembly: for they kept the dedication of the altar seven days, and the feast seven days.
English Standard Version
And on the eighth day they held a solemn assembly, for they had kept the dedication of the altar seven days and the feast seven days.
New Century Version
For seven days they celebrated giving the altar for the worship of God. Then they celebrated the festival for seven days. On the eighth day they had a meeting.
New English Translation
On the eighth day they held an assembly, for they had dedicated the altar for seven days and celebrated the festival for seven more days.
Amplified Bible
On the eighth day they held a celebration, for they had observed the dedication of the altar for seven days, and the feast for seven days.
New American Standard Bible
And on the eighth day they held a solemn assembly, because they held the dedication of the altar for seven days, and the feast for seven days.
World English Bible
On the eighth day they held a solemn assembly: for they kept the dedication of the altar seven days, and the feast seven days.
Legacy Standard Bible
And on the eighth day they celebrated a solemn assembly; for the dedication of the altar they celebrated seven days and the feast seven days.
Berean Standard Bible
On the eighth day they held a solemn assembly, for the dedication of the altar had lasted seven days, and the feast seven days more.
Contemporary English Version
Then on the next day, everyone came together for worship. They had celebrated a total of fourteen days, seven days for the dedication of the altar and seven more days for the festival.
Complete Jewish Bible
On the eighth day they held a solemn assembly, having observed the dedication of the altar for seven days and the festival for seven days.
Darby Translation
And on the eighth day they held a solemn assembly; for they kept the dedication of the altar seven days, and the feast seven days.
Easy-to-Read Version
On the eighth day, they had a holy meeting because they had celebrated for seven days. They made the altar holy and it was to be used only for worshiping the Lord. And they celebrated the festival for seven days.
George Lamsa Translation
Seven days were given for the feast and seven days for the dedication of the house; the extent of both occasions was fourteen days.
Good News Translation
They had spent seven days for the dedication of the altar and then seven more days for the festival. On the last day they had a closing celebration,
Lexham English Bible
And on the eighth day they made a solemn assembly, for they held the dedication of the altar seven days and the feast seven days.
Literal Translation
And they made a solemn assembly on the eighth day, because they kept the dedication of the altar seven days, and the feast seven days.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
and on the eight daye helde he a conuocacion. For the dedicacion of the altare helde they seuen daies, and the feast seuen dayes also.
American Standard Version
And on the eighth day they held a solemn assembly: for they kept the dedication of the altar seven days, and the feast seven days.
Bible in Basic English
And on the eighth day they had a holy meeting; the offerings for making the altar holy went on for seven days, and the feast for seven days.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
And in the eyght day they made an assemblie: For they kept the dedication of the aulter seuen dayes, & the feast seuen dayes.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
And on the eighth day they held a solemn assembly; for they kept the dedication of the altar seven days, and the feast seven days.
King James Version (1611)
And in the eight day they made a solemne assembly: for they kept the dedication of the Altar seuen dayes, and the feast seuen dayes.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And on the eighth day he kept a solemn assembly: for he kept a feast of seven days as the dedication of the altar.
English Revised Version
And on the eighth day they held a solemn assembly: for they kept the dedication of the altar seven days, and the feast seven days.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
And in the eiythe dai he made a gaderyng of money, `that is, for necessaries of the temple, for he hadde halewid the auter in seuene daies, and `hadde maad solempnytee in seuene daies.
Update Bible Version
And on the eighth day they held a solemn assembly: for they kept the dedication of the altar seven days, and the feast seven days.
Webster's Bible Translation
And on the eighth day they made a solemn assembly: for they kept the dedication of the altar seven days, and the feast seven days.
New King James Version
And on the eighth day they held a sacred assembly, for they observed the dedication of the altar seven days, and the feast seven days.
New Living Translation
On the eighth day they had a closing ceremony, for they had celebrated the dedication of the altar for seven days and the Festival of Shelters for seven days.
New Life Bible
On the eighth day they gathered together for a special time. For seven days they had to set apart the altar, and for seven days they had the special supper.
New Revised Standard
On the eighth day they held a solemn assembly; for they had observed the dedication of the altar seven days and the festival seven days.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
And they made, on the eighth day, a closing feast, - because, the dedication of the altar, they had kept seven days and a festival seven days.
Douay-Rheims Bible
And 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.
Revised Standard Version
And on the eighth day they held a solemn assembly; for they had kept the dedication of the altar seven days and the feast seven days.
Young's Literal Translation
And they make on the eighth day a restraint, because the dedication of the altar they have made seven days, and the feast seven days.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
On the eighth day they held a solemn assembly, for the dedication of the altar they observed seven days and the feast seven days.

Contextual Overview

1 And when Salomon had made an ende of praying, fire came downe from heauen, and consumed the burnt offring and the sacrifices: and the glory of the Lord filled the house, 2 So that the Priestes could not euter into the house of the Lorde, because the glory of the Lord had filled the Lordes house. 3 And when all the children of Israel saw the fire, and the glory of the Lord come downe vpon the house, they bowed themselues with their faces to the earth vpon the pauement, and worshipped and praysed the Lord, saying, For he is good, because his mercy lasteth for euer. 4 Then the King and all the people offred sacrifices before the Lord. 5 And King Salomon offered a sacrifice of two and twentie thousand bullockes, and an hundreth and twentie thousand sheepe. so the King and all the people dedicated the house of God. 6 And the Priests waited on their offices, and the Leuites with the instruments of musicke of the Lorde, which King Dauid had made to praise the Lord, Because his mercy lasteth for euer: whe Dauid praysed God by them, the Priestes also blewe trumpets ouer against them: and all they of Israel stoode by. 7 Moreouer Salomon halowed the middle of the court that was before the house of the Lord: for there hee had prepared burnt offerings, and the fatte of the peace offerings, because the brasen altar which Salomon had made, was not able to receiue the burnt offering, and the meate offring, and the fat. 8 And Salomon made a feast at that time of seuen dayes, and all Israel with him, a very great Congregation, from the entring in of Hamath, vnto the riuer of Egypt. 9 And in the eight day they made a solemne assemblie: for they had made the dedication of the altar seuen daies, and the feast seuen dayes. 10 And the three and twentieth day of the seuenth moneth, he sent the people away into their tentes, ioyous and with glad heart, because of the goodnesse that the Lorde had done for Dauid and for Salomon, & for Israel his people.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

solemn assembly: Heb. restraint, Leviticus 23:36, Deuteronomy 16:8, Nehemiah 8:18, Joel 1:14

seven days: 2 Chronicles 30:23, 1 Kings 8:65

Reciprocal: Numbers 7:10 - dedicating 2 Chronicles 30:26 - since the time Ezra 6:16 - the dedication Esther 1:5 - seven days John 7:2 - General

Cross-References

Genesis 2:19
So the Lorde God formed of the earth euery beast of the fielde, and euery foule of the heauen, and brought them vnto the man to see howe he would call them: for howsoeuer the man named the liuing creature, so was the name thereof.
Genesis 7:6
And Noah was sixe hundreth yeeres olde, when the flood of waters was vpon the earth.
Genesis 7:9
There came two and two vnto Noah into the Arke, male and female, as God had commanded Noah.
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 7:12
And the raine was vpon the earth fourtie dayes and fourtie nightes.
Genesis 7:16
And they entring in, came male and female of all flesh, as God had commanded him: and the Lord shut him in.
Isaiah 65:25
The wolfe and the lambe shall feede together, and the lyon shall eate strawe like the bullocke: and to the serpent dust shall be his meate. They shall no more hurt nor destroy in all mine holy Mountaine, saith the Lord.
Jeremiah 8:7
Euen the storke in the aire knoweth her appointed times, and the turtle and the crane and the swallowe obserue the time of their comming, but my people knoweth not the iudgement of the Lorde.
Galatians 3:28
There is neither Iewe nor Grecian: there is neither bonde nor free: there is neither male nor female: for ye are all one in Christ Iesus.
Colossians 3:11
Where is neither Grecian nor Iewe, circumcision nor vncircumcision, Barbarian, Scythian, bond, free: But Christ is all, and in all things.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

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