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1 Kings 8:1-2
New Catholic Bible
1 Kings 8:1-2
New Catholic Bible
Chapter 8
Solomon Dedicates the Temple. 1 Solomon then assembled all of the elders of Israel, all of the heads of the tribes and the leaders of the ancestral clans of the Israelites. They came to King Solomon in Jerusalem in order to bring the Ark of the Covenant of the Lord out of the City of David, that is, Zion.
2 All of the men of Israel assembled before King Solomon at the festival during the month of Ethanim,[a] the seventh month.
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- 1 Kings 8:2 Ethanim: a month in the Canaanite calendar that corresponded to the Hebrew seventh month (September-October). The greatest of the feasts was the Feast of Booths, that celebrated the passage from one year to another.
