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All the people of Israel assembled before King Solomon during the festival in the month of Ethanim (the seventh month).[a] When all the elders of Israel had arrived, the priests took up the ark; and they brought up the ark of the Lord and the tent of meeting with all the sacred vessels that were in the tent. The priests and Levites brought them up.

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Footnotes

  1. 8:2 “The seventh month” (“Ethanim” in the Canaanite calendar) corresponded to late September/early October. The great festival at that time of year is the feast of Booths, or Succoth/Sukkoth (see Lv 23:33–43; Dt 16:13–15). The feast was important enough to warrant holding the dedication ceremony either a month before or eleven months after the Temple was completed in the eighth month (6:38).

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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