2 Chronicles 7:9
in 2 Chronicles 7On the eighth day they held a solemn assembly, for the dedication of the altar had lasted seven days, and the feast seven days more.
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ASV
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.
KJV
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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This verse in 2 Chronicles 7
Commentary
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hallowed the middle of the court
on 2 Chronicles 7:7-10
The bronze altar cannot hold what the day requires, so Solomon consecrates the open court itself for the extra burnt offerings, meat offerings and fat, a detail Gill reads as running near word for word with 1 Ki 8:64. The dedication of the altar takes seven days, the feast of tabernacles that follows takes seven more, and an eighth day solemn assembly closes it, the same fourteen days already kept in the parallel account at 1 Ki 8:65-66. Israel gathers from the entering in of Hamath to the river of Egypt, the full length of the land, and goes home on the twenty-third day glad and merry in heart for the goodness shown to David, to Solomon and to Israel.
How the passage was read
What the Jewish commentators add
On the verses either side of this one
And on the twenty-third day of the seventh month, he dismissed the people which was the ninth [day] of the inauguration of the Temple, but in I Kings (8:66) it is written: “On the eighth day,” which was the twenty-second of the month.
This section is reception history: how the passage was read and kept in the Jewish tradition. Where a reading parts from an essential of the Christian faith, the section says so at that point.
Texts and citation data: Sefaria; each excerpt follows its version’s licence. 2 further sources are cited on this chapter that carry no English text this site may quote or only restate the verse.
The words behind it
13 Hebrew wordsEvery 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.
| Hebrew | Sound | Meaning | Word study | In the Bible |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| וַֽיַּעֲשׂ֛וּ | vaiyaasu | and they observed | H6213 → | 2628 times |
| בַּיּ֥וֹם | baiyom | on the day | H3117 → | 2304 times |
| הַשְּׁמִינִ֖י | hashemini | <the> eighth | H8066 → | |
| עֲצָ֑רֶת | ʾatzaret | an assembly | H6116 → | |
| כִּ֣י׀ | ki | for | H3588 → | 4482 times |
| חֲנֻכַּ֣ת | chanukat | [the] dedication of | H2598 → | |
| הַמִּזְבֵּ֗חַ | hamizbeach | the altar | H4196 → | 401 times |
| עָשׂוּ֙ | ʾasu | they had observed | H6213 → | 2628 times |
| שִׁבְעַ֣ת | shivat | seven | H7651 → | 394 times |
| יָמִ֔ים | yamim | days | H3117 → | 2304 times |
| וְהֶחָ֖ג | vehechag | and the festival | H2282 → | 62 times |
| שִׁבְעַ֥ת | shivat | seven | H7651 → | 394 times |
| יָמִֽים׃ | yamim | days | H3117 → | 2304 times |
וַֽיַּעֲשׂ֛וּand they observed
vaiyaasuH6213 →2628 times
בַּיּ֥וֹםon the day
baiyomH3117 →2304 times
הַשְּׁמִינִ֖י<the> eighth
hasheminiH8066 →
עֲצָ֑רֶתan assembly
ʾatzaretH6116 →
כִּ֣י׀for
kiH3588 →4482 times
חֲנֻכַּ֣ת[the] dedication of
chanukatH2598 →
הַמִּזְבֵּ֗חַthe altar
hamizbeachH4196 →401 times
עָשׂוּ֙they had observed
ʾasuH6213 →2628 times
שִׁבְעַ֣תseven
shivatH7651 →394 times
יָמִ֔יםdays
yamimH3117 →2304 times
וְהֶחָ֖גand the festival
vehechagH2282 →62 times
שִׁבְעַ֥תseven
shivatH7651 →394 times
יָמִֽים׃days
yamimH3117 →2304 times
A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.
The walk
8 stopsEach 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
Leviticus 23:36For seven days you are to present an offering made by fire to the LORD. On the eighth day you are to hold a sacred assembly and present an offering made by fire to…
it leads to
- John 7:37
On the last and greatest day of the feast, Jesus stood up and called out in a loud voice, “If anyone is thirsty, let him come to Me and drink.
Reached by 2 separate paths from here.
- Nehemiah 8:18
Day after day, from the first day to the last, Ezra read from the Book of the Law of God. The Israelites kept the feast for seven days, and on the eighth day they…
- John 7:37
Through
Nehemiah 8:18Day after day, from the first day to the last, Ezra read from the Book of the Law of God. The Israelites kept the feast for seven days, and on the eighth day they…
it leads to
- Leviticus 23:36
For seven days you are to present an offering made by fire to the LORD. On the eighth day you are to hold a sacred assembly and present an offering made by fire to…
Reached by 2 separate paths from here.
- Leviticus 23:36
Through
Joel 1:14Consecrate a fast; proclaim a solemn assembly! Gather the elders and all the residents of the land to the house of the LORD your God, and cry out to the LORD.
it leads to
- Joel 2:15–16
Blow the ram’s horn in Zion, consecrate a fast, proclaim a sacred assembly.
- 2 Chronicles 20:13
Meanwhile all the men of Judah, with their wives and children and little ones, were standing before the LORD.
- Jonah 3:8
Furthermore, let both man and beast be covered with sackcloth, and have everyone call out earnestly to God. Let each one turn from his evil ways and from the violence in his hands.
- Deuteronomy 29:10–11
All of you are standing today before the LORD your God—you leaders of tribes, elders, officials, and all the men of Israel,
- Joel 2:15–16
Through
1 Kings 8:65So 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.
- Numbers 34:5
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About 2 Chronicles
This page draws on Jamieson Fausset and Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible and John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament.