By the seventh month, the Israelites had settled in their towns, and the people assembled as one man in Jerusalem.
Parallel translations
- WEB When the seventh month had come, and the children of Israel were in the cities, the people gathered themselves together as one man to Jerusalem.
- KJV And when the seventh month was come, and the children of Israel were in the cities, the people gathered themselves together as one man to Jerusalem.
- NKJV And when the seventh month had come, and the children of Israel were in the cities, the people gathered together as one man to Jerusalem.
- NASB Now when the seventh month came, and the sons of Israel were in the cities, the people gathered together as one person to Jerusalem.
- NLT In early autumn, when the Israelites had settled in their towns, all the people assembled in Jerusalem with a unified purpose.
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Quick answer
In the seventh month the people gathered as one to Jerusalem. United, they came together to renew worship.
Overview
The seventh month was rich with appointed feasts, including the Day of Atonement and the Feast of Tabernacles (Leviticus 23). Gathering as one man signals remarkable unity and shared resolve to put God first. Restored worship, not merely physical resettlement, was the community's true priority.
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- Acts 4:32The multitude of believers was one in heart and soul. No one claimed that any of his possessions was his own, but they shared everything they owned.
- Lev 23:24“Speak to the Israelites and say, ‘On the first day of the seventh month you are to have a day of rest, a sacred assembly announced by trumpet blasts.
- 1 Cor 1:10I appeal to you, brothers, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that all of you agree together, so that there may be no divisions among you and that you may be united in mind and conviction.
- Neh 7:73So the priests, Levites, gatekeepers, singers, and temple servants, along with some of the people and the rest of the Israelites, settled in their own towns. And by the seventh month the Israelites had settled in their towns.
- Neh 8:14And they found written in the Law, which the LORD had commanded through Moses, that the Israelites were to dwell in booths during the feast of the seventh month.
- Zeph 3:9For then I will restore pure lips to the peoples, that all may call upon the name of the LORD and serve Him shoulder to shoulder.
- Lev 23:27–44“The tenth day of this seventh month is the Day of Atonement. You shall hold a sacred assembly and humble yourselves, and present an offering made by fire to the LORD.
- Exod 23:14–17Three times a year you are to celebrate a feast to Me.
- Acts 2:46With one accord they continued to meet daily in the temple courts and to break bread from house to house, sharing their meals with gladness and sincerity of heart,
- Num 29:1–40“On the first day of the seventh month, you are to hold a sacred assembly, and you must not do any regular work. This will be a day for you to sound the trumpets.
- Judg 20:1Then all the Israelites from Dan to Beersheba and from the land of Gilead came out, and the congregation assembled as one man before the LORD at Mizpah.
- Lev 16:29This is to be a permanent statute for you: On the tenth day of the seventh month, you shall humble yourselves and not do any work—whether the native or the foreigner who resides among you—
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