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2 Chronicles 7:8

in 2 Chronicles 7

So at that time Solomon and all Israel with him—a very great assembly of people from Lebo-hamath to the Brook of Egypt—kept the feast for seven days.

BSB

The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾

ASV

So Solomon held the feast at that time seven days, and all Israel with him, a very great assembly, from the entrance of Hamath unto the brook of Egypt.

KJV

Also at the same time Solomon kept the feast seven days, and all Israel with him, a very great congregation, from the entering in of Hamath unto the river of Egypt.

This verse in 2 Chronicles 7

Commentary

5 notes on this verse
Solomon kept the feast - i. e., Solomon kept at this same time, not the Feast of the Dedication only, but also the Feast of tabernacles. The former lasted seven days, from the 8th of Tisri to the 15th, the latter also seven days, from the 15th to the 22nd. On the day following the people were dismissed 2Ch 7:10.

This site's exposition

Solomon consecrated the middle of the courtyard

on 2 Chronicles 7:7-10

The bronze altar “could not contain all these offerings,” so Solomon consecrates the middle of the courtyard, as at 1 Kings 8:64. The dedication of the altar takes seven days, the feast seven more, and a solemn assembly on the eighth day closes it.

This site's exposition

kept the feast for seven days

The feast of seven days is the Feast of Tabernacles, kept after the harvest in September and October. Jamieson, Fausset and Brown note that the dedication was set to fall just before it. So two feasts ran back to back.

The record, by era

The Nineteenth Century2 voices

A commentator

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

1802–1910

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)

Solomon kept the feast seven days--The time chosen for the dedication of the temple was immediately previous to the feast of tabernacles (see on 1Ki 8:1-12). That season, which came after the harvest, corresponding to our September and October, lasted seven days, and during so prolonged a festival there was time afforded for the offering of the immense sacrifices enumerated.

A commentator

Adam Clarke

1762–1832

Commentary on the Bible · Written before 1832.

proposed

The entering in of Hamath - “From the entrance of Antioch to the Nile of Egypt.” - Targum.

The words behind it

19 Hebrew words

Every Hebrew word of this verse in the order it stands, with what it means and the door to its own study. The last column counts the times a word stands in the whole Bible: the rarer the word, the more the places it appears belong together.

  • וַיַּ֣עַשׂand he observed

    vaiyaasH6213 →2628 times

  • שְׁלֹמֹ֣הSolomon

    shelomohH8010 →291 times

  • אֶת־<obj.>

    ʾet-H853 →10935 times

  • הֶ֠חָגthe festival

    hechogH2282 →62 times

  • בָּעֵ֨תat the time

    baetH6256 →296 times

  • הַהִ֜יא<the> that

    hahi'H1931 →1879 times

  • שִׁבְעַ֤תseven

    shivatH7651 →394 times

  • יָמִים֙days

    yamimH3117 →2304 times

  • וְכָל־and all

    vekholH3605 →5413 times

  • יִשְׂרָאֵ֣לIsrael

    yisraelH3478 →2507 times

  • עִמּ֔וֹ[was] with him

    imoH5973 →1050 times

  • קָהָ֖לan assembly

    kahalH6951 →123 times

  • גָּד֣וֹלgreat

    gadolH1419 →526 times

  • מְאֹ֑דvery

    meodH3966 →300 times

  • מִלְּב֥וֹאfrom Lebo

    milevo'H935 →2568 times

  • חֲמָ֖תHamath

    chamatH2574 →

  • עַד־to

    ʾad-H5704 →1261 times

  • נַ֥חַל[the] wadi of

    nachalH5158 →141 times

  • מִצְרָֽיִם׃Egypt

    mitzrayimH4714 →641 times

A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.

The walk

8 stops

Each card is a verse this one points to, and under it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it.

  • Through

    Genesis 15:18

    On that day the LORD made a covenant with Abram, saying, “To your descendants I have given this land—from the river of Egypt to the great River Euphrates—

    it leads to

    • Joshua 1:3–4

      I have given you every place where the sole of your foot will tread, just as I promised to Moses.

    • Genesis 12:7

      Then the LORD appeared to Abram and said, “I will give this land to your offspring.” So Abram built an altar there to the LORD, who had appeared to him.

    • Genesis 24:7

      The LORD, the God of heaven, who brought me from my father’s house and my native land, who spoke to me and promised me on oath, saying, ‘To your offspring I will give this…

    • Genesis 13:15

      for all the land that you see, I will give to you and your offspring forever.

    • Deuteronomy 11:24

      Every place where the sole of your foot treads will be yours. Your territory will extend from the wilderness to Lebanon, and from the Euphrates River to the Western Sea.

  • Through

    1 Kings 8:65

    So at that time Solomon and all Israel with him—a great assembly of people from Lebo-hamath to the Brook of Egypt—kept the feast before the LORD our God for seven days and seven more…

    it leads to

    • Numbers 34:5

      where it will turn from Azmon, join the Brook of Egypt, and end at the Sea.

    • 1 Kings 8:2

      And all the men of Israel came together to King Solomon at the feast in the seventh month, the month of Ethanim.

    • Numbers 34:8

      and from Mount Hor to Lebo-hamath, then extend to Zedad,

Where this verse is studied

About 2 Chronicles

This page draws on Adam Clarke, Commentary on the Bible; Albert Barnes, Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869); Jamieson Fausset and Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible; Jamieson, Fausset & Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible and John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament.