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.
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.
- BSB By the seventh month, the Israelites had settled in their towns, and the people assembled as one man in 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 4:32And the multitude of them that believed were of one heart and of one soul: neither said any of them that ought of the things which he possessed was his own; but they had all things common.
- Lev 23:24Speak unto the children of Israel, saying, In the seventh month, in the first day of the month, shall ye have a sabbath, a memorial of blowing of trumpets, an holy convocation.
- 1 Cor 1:10Now I beseech you, brethren, by the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that ye all speak the same thing, and that there be no divisions among you; but that ye be perfectly joined together in the same mind and in the same judgment.
- Neh 7:73So the priests, and the Levites, and the porters, and the singers, and some of the people, and the Nethinims, and all Israel, dwelt in their cities; and when the seventh month came, the children of Israel were in their cities.
- Neh 8:14And they found written in the law which the LORD had commanded by Moses, that the children of Israel should dwell in booths in the feast of the seventh month:
- Zeph 3:9For then will I turn to the people a pure language, that they may all call upon the name of the LORD, to serve him with one consent.
- Lev 23:27–44Also on the tenth day of this seventh month there shall be a day of atonement: it shall be an holy convocation unto you; and ye shall afflict your souls, and offer an offering made by fire unto the LORD.
- Exod 23:14–17Three times thou shalt keep a feast unto me in the year.
- Acts 2:46And they, continuing daily with one accord in the temple, and breaking bread from house to house, did eat their meat with gladness and singleness of heart,
- Num 29:1–40And in the seventh month, on the first day of the month, ye shall have an holy convocation; ye shall do no servile work: it is a day of blowing the trumpets unto you.
- Judg 20:1Then all the children of Israel went out, and the congregation was gathered together as one man, from Dan even to Beersheba, with the land of Gilead, unto the LORD in Mizpeh.
- Lev 16:29And this shall be a statute for ever unto you: that in the seventh month, on the tenth day of the month, ye shall afflict your souls, and do no work at all, whether it be one of your own country, or a stranger that sojourneth among you:
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