2nd Chronicles Chapter 7 verse 9 Holy Bible
And on the eighth day they held a solemn assembly: for they kept the dedication of the altar seven days, and the feast seven days.
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And on the eighth day they had a holy meeting; the offerings for making the altar holy went on for seven days, and the feast for seven days.
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And on the eighth day they held a solemn assembly; for they kept the dedication of the altar seven days, and the feast seven days.
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And in the eighth day they made a solemn assembly: for they kept the dedication of the altar seven days, and the feast seven days.
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And on the eighth day they made a solemn assembly: for they kept the dedication of the altar seven days, and the feast seven days.
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On the eighth day they held a solemn assembly: for they kept the dedication of the altar seven days, and the feast seven days.
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And they make on the eighth day a restraint, because the dedication of the altar they have made seven days, and the feast seven days.
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Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerse 9. - Solemn assembly. The word thus translated in the Authorized Version occurs (including both its but very slightly differing forms) eleven times. Five of these times the margin offers, probably unnecessarily, the optional rendering of "restraint." It may be that the root involves this idea, and certainly the word is especially used for the seventh or closing day of Passover, and eighth or closing day of Tabernacles; but other occasions of its use seem to negative this as an essential element in the signification or essential condition of the use of the word; e.g. "Proclaim a solemn assembly" (2 Kings 10:20); "Call a solemn assembly" (Joel 1:14; Joel 2:15).
Ellicott's Commentary
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(9) And in the eighth day--That is, on the twenty-second of the seventh month (Ethanim, or Tisri; 2Chronicles 5:3).They made a solemn assembly.--Comp. Leviticus 23:36. Not mentioned in Kings (1Kings 8:66 says: "and on the eighth day he dismissed the people," i.e., after this final gathering).For they kept the dedication of the altar seven days.--The seven days preceding the first day of the Feast of Tabernacles, or the 8th to the 14th Ethanim, had been kept as an extraordinary festival on account of the inauguration of the Temple. After this festival, the Feast of Tabernacles was celebrated in due course for seven days more.This explains the obscure words of 1Kings 8:65, "(Solomon and all Israel) kept the feast . . . seven days and seven days, fourteen days," a brief expression which combines the two distinct celebrations. So Syriac, "seven days of the feast, and seven days of the inauguration of the house; these and these, their amount was fourteen days. And on the day of the full moon in the month of Tisri the king sent the people away." . . .
