Then Solomon assembled the Elders of Israel, and all the heads of the tribes, the chief fathers of the children of Israel unto Jerusalem, to bring up the Ark of the covenant of the Lord from the [a]city of David, which is Zion.

And all the men of Israel assembled unto the king at the [b]feast: it was in the seventh [c]month.

And all the Elders of Israel came, and the Levites took up the Ark.

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Footnotes

  1. 2 Chronicles 5:2 Read 2 Sam. 6:12.
  2. 2 Chronicles 5:3 When the things were dedicated and brought into the Temple.
  3. 2 Chronicles 5:3 Called in Hebrew Ethanim, containing part of September and part of October, 1 Kings 8:2, which moveth the Jews called the first month, because they say, that the world was created in that month, and after they came from Egypt, they began at March: but because this opinion is uncertain, we make March ever the first, as best writers do.

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