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The Temple is Dedicated(A)

Then Solomon gathered together the elders of Israel, including all the heads of the tribes and the leaders of the ancestral households of the Israelis, to meet with him in Jerusalem so they could bring up the Ark of the Covenant of the Lord from Zion, the City of David. So all the men gathered together to meet with King Solomon at the Festival of Tents[a] in the month Ethanim, the seventh month.

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Kings 8:2 The Heb. lacks of Tents; cf. Lev 23:34

The Ark Brought to the Temple(A)

Then King Solomon summoned into his presence at Jerusalem the elders of Israel, all the heads of the tribes and the chiefs(B) of the Israelite families, to bring up the ark(C) of the Lord’s covenant from Zion, the City of David.(D) All the Israelites came together to King Solomon at the time of the festival(E) in the month of Ethanim, the seventh month.(F)

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