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All the men of Israel assembled before the king during the festival[a] in the seventh month.[b] When all Israel’s elders had arrived, the Levites lifted the ark. The priests and Levites carried the ark, the tent where God appeared to his people,[c] and all the holy items in the tent.[d]

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Footnotes

  1. 2 Chronicles 5:3 sn This festival in the seventh month was the Feast of Tabernacles, see Lev 23:34.
  2. 2 Chronicles 5:3 sn The seventh month would be September-October in modern reckoning.
  3. 2 Chronicles 5:5 tn Heb “the tent of assembly.”sn See Exod 33:7-11.
  4. 2 Chronicles 5:5 tn Heb “and they carried the ark of the Lord…. The priests and the Levites carried them.”

And all the Israelites(A) came together to the king at the time of the festival in the seventh month.

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

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