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Everyone in Israel assembled before King Solomon in the seventh month, the month of Ethanim,[a] during the festival. When all of Israel’s elders had arrived, the priests picked up the chest. They brought the Lord’s chest, the meeting tent, and all the holy equipment that was in the tent. The priests and the Levites brought them up,

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Kings 8:2 September–October, Tishrei; Ethanim is a month from a Canaanite calendar.

All the Israelites came together to King Solomon at the time of the festival(A) in the month of Ethanim, the seventh month.(B)

When all the elders of Israel had arrived, the priests(C) took up the ark, and they brought up the ark of the Lord and the tent of meeting(D) and all the sacred furnishings in it. The priests and Levites(E) carried them up,

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