Now when the seventh month came, and the sons of Israel were in the cities, the people gathered together as one person 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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 those who believed were of one heart and soul. Not one of them claimed that anything of the things which he possessed was his own, but they had all things in common.
- Lev 23:24“Speak to the children of Israel, saying, ‘In the seventh month, on the first day of the month, shall be a solemn rest to you, a memorial of blowing of trumpets, a holy convocation.
- 1 Cor 1:10Now I beg you, brothers, through the name of our Lord, Jesus Christ, that you all speak the same thing, and that there be no divisions among you, but that you be perfected together in the same mind and in the same judgment.
- Neh 7:73So the priests, the Levites, the porters, the singers, some of the people, the temple servants, and all Israel, lived in their cities. When the seventh month had come, the children of Israel were in their cities.
- Neh 8:14They found written in the law how Yahweh had commanded by Moses that the children of Israel should dwell in booths in the feast of the seventh month;
- Zeph 3:9For then I will purify the lips of the peoples, that they may all call on Yahweh’s name, to serve him shoulder to shoulder.
- Lev 23:27–44“However on the tenth day of this seventh month is the day of atonement: it shall be a holy convocation to you, and you shall afflict yourselves; and you shall offer an offering made by fire to Yahweh.
- Exod 23:14–17“You shall observe a feast to me three times a year.
- Acts 2:46Day by day, continuing steadfastly with one accord in the temple, and breaking bread at home, they took their food with gladness and singleness of heart,
- Num 29:1–40“‘In the seventh month, on the first day of the month, you shall have a holy convocation; you shall do no regular work: it is a day of blowing of trumpets to you.
- Judg 20:1Then all the children of Israel went out, and the congregation was assembled as one man, from Dan even to Beersheba, with the land of Gilead, to Yahweh at Mizpah.
- Lev 16:29“It shall be a statute to you forever: in the seventh month, on the tenth day of the month, you shall afflict your souls, and shall do no kind of work, the native-born, or the stranger who lives as a foreigner among you:
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