1 Kings 8:2

Christian Standard Bible ®

So all the men of Israel were assembled in the presence of King Solomon in the seventh month, the month of Ethanim, at the festival.

Parallel Translations

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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 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.

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

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

Contextual Overview

¹ At that time Solomon assembled the elders of Israel, all the tribal heads and the ancestral leaders of the Israelites before him at Jerusalem in order to bring the ark of the Lord 's covenant from the city of David, that is Zion. ² So all the men of Israel were assembled in the presence of King Solomon in the seventh month, the month of Ethanim, at the festival. ³ All the elders of Israel came, and the priests picked up the ark. ⁴ The priests and the Levites brought the ark of the Lord , the tent of meeting, and the holy utensils that were in the tent. ⁵ King Solomon and the entire congregation of Israel, who had gathered around him and were with him in front of the ark, were sacrificing sheep and cattle that could not be counted or numbered, because there were so many. ⁶ The priests brought the ark of the Lord 's covenant to its place, into the inner sanctuary of the temple, to the most holy place beneath the wings of the cherubim. ⁷ For the cherubim were spreading their wings over the place of the ark, so that the cherubim covered the ark and its poles from above. ⁸ The poles were so long that their ends were seen from the holy place in front of the inner sanctuary, but they were not seen from outside the sanctuary; they are there to this day. ⁹ Nothing was in the ark except the two stone tablets that Moses had put there at Horeb, where the Lord made a covenant with the Israelites when they came out of the land of Egypt. ¹⁰ When the priests came out of the holy place, the cloud filled the Lord 's temple,

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 six hundredth year of Noah's life, in the second month, on the seventeenth day of the month, on that day all the sources of the watery depths burst open, the floodgates of the sky were opened,

Genesis 8:11
When the dove came to him at evening, there was a plucked olive leaf in her beak. So Noah knew that the water on the earth's surface had gone down.

Genesis 8:13
In the six hundred and first year, in the first month, on the first day of the month, the water that had covered the earth was dried up. Then Noah removed the ark's cover and saw that the surface of the ground was drying.

Job 38:37
Who has the wisdom to number the clouds? Or who can tilt the water jars of heaven

Proverbs 8:28
when He placed the skies above, when the fountains of the ocean gushed out,

Jonah 2:3
You threw me into the depths, into the heart of the seas, and the current overcame me. All Your breakers and Your billows swept over me.

Matthew 8:9
For I too am a man under authority, having soldiers under my command. I say to this one, ‘Go!' and he goes; and to another, ‘Come!' and he comes; and 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.