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1 Kings 8:2-4
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1 Kings 8:2-4
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Solomon Brings the Sacred Chest to the Temple
(2 Chronicles 5.2—6.2)
8 1-2 (A) The sacred chest had been kept on Mount Zion, also known as the city of David. But Solomon decided to have the chest moved to the temple while everyone was in Jerusalem, celebrating the Festival of Shelters during Ethanim,[a] the seventh month of the year.
Solomon called together the important leaders of Israel. 3-4 Then the priests and the Levites carried to the temple the sacred chest, the sacred tent, and the objects used for worship.
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- 8.1,2 Ethanim: The seventh month of the Hebrew calendar, from about mid-September to mid-October.
1 Kings 8:2-4
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1 Kings 8:2-4
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2 All the Israelites came together to King Solomon at the time of the festival(A) in the month of Ethanim, the seventh month.(B)
3 When all the elders of Israel had arrived, the priests(C) took up the ark, 4 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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