KJV King James Version
Wherefore all the men of Israel assembled themselves unto the king in the feast which [was] in the seventh month.
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2 Chronicles 5:3
Wherefore all the men of Israel assembled themselves unto the king in the feast which [was] in the seventh month.
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BSB Berean Standard Bible
So all the men of Israel came together to the king at the feast in the seventh month.
WEB World English Bible
And all the men of Israel assembled themselves to the king at the feast, which was in the seventh month.
ASV American Standard Version
And all the men of Israel assembled themselves unto the king at the feast, which was in the seventh month.
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
And assembled unto the king are all the men of Israel in the feast—it is the seventh month;
Surrounding context — 2 Chronicles 5
1 Thus all the work that Solomon made for the house of the LORD was finished: and Solomon brought in [all] the things that David his father had dedicated; and the silver, and the gold, and all the instruments, put he among the treasures of the house of God.
2 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 Jerusalem, to bring up the ark of the covenant of the LORD out of the city of David, which [is] Zion.
3 Wherefore all the men of Israel assembled themselves unto the king in the feast which [was] in the seventh month.
4 And all the elders of Israel came; and the Levites took up the ark.
5 And they brought up the ark, and the tabernacle of the congregation, and all the holy vessels that [were] in the tabernacle, these did the priests [and] the Levites bring up.
6 Also king Solomon, and all the congregation of Israel that were assembled unto him before the ark, sacrificed sheep and oxen, which could not be told nor numbered for multitude.
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1 Kings 8:2And all the men of Israel assembled themselves unto king Solomon at the feast in the month Ethanim, which [is] the seventh month.2 Chronicles 7:8-10Also at the same time Solomon kept the feast seven days, and all Israel with him, a very great congregation, from the entering in of Hamath unto the river of Egypt.Leviticus 23:34-36Speak unto the children of Israel, saying, The fifteenth day of this seventh month [shall be] the feast of tabernacles [for] seven days unto the LORD.
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