1 Kings 8:1-3

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Dedication of the Temple

8 Then Solomon assembled the elders of Israel and all the heads of the tribes, the leaders of the ancestral houses of the Israelites, before King Solomon in Jerusalem, to bring up the ark of the covenant of the Lord out of the city of David, which is Zion.^{(A) 2} All the people of Israel assembled to King Solomon at the festival in the month Ethanim, which is the seventh month.^{(B) 3} And all the elders of Israel came, and the priests carried the ark.^(C)