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Good News Translation

1 Kings 8:2

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

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.
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.
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.
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 Solomon summoned all the leaders of the tribes and clans of Israel to come to him in Jerusalem in order to take the Lord 's Covenant Box from Zion, David's City, to the Temple. 2 They all assembled during the Festival of Shelters in the seventh month, in the month of Ethanim. 3 When all the leaders had gathered, the priests lifted the Covenant Box 4 and carried it to the Temple. The Levites and the priests also moved the Tent of the Lord 's presence and all its equipment to the Temple. 5 King Solomon and all the people of Israel assembled in front of the Covenant Box and sacrificed a large number of sheep and cattle—too many to count. 6 Then the priests carried the Covenant Box into the Temple and put it in the Most Holy Place, beneath the winged creatures. 7 Their outstretched wings covered the box and the poles it was carried by. 8 The ends of the poles could be seen by anyone standing directly in front of the Most Holy Place, but from nowhere else. (The poles are still there today.) 9 There was nothing inside the Covenant Box except the two stone tablets which Moses had placed there at Mount Sinai, when the Lord made a covenant with the people of Israel as they were coming from Egypt. 10 As the priests were leaving the Temple, it was suddenly filled with a cloud

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
When Noah was six hundred years old, on the seventeenth day of the second month all the outlets of the vast body of water beneath the earth burst open, all the floodgates of the sky were opened,
Genesis 8:11
It returned to him in the evening with a fresh olive leaf in its beak. So Noah knew that the water had gone down.
Genesis 8:13
When Noah was 601 years old, on the first day of the first month, the water was gone. Noah removed the covering of the boat, looked around, and saw that the ground was getting dry.
Job 38:37
Who is wise enough to count the clouds and tilt them over to pour out the rain,
Proverbs 8:28
when he placed the clouds in the sky, when he opened the springs of the ocean
Jonah 2:3
You threw me down into the depths, to the very bottom of the sea, where the waters were all around me, and all your mighty waves rolled over me.
Matthew 8:9
I, too, am a man under the authority of superior officers, and I have soldiers under me. I order this one, ‘Go!' and he goes; and I order that one, ‘Come!' and he comes; and I order 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.


 
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