1 Kings 8:65

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

And at that time Solomon held a feast, and all Israel with him, a great congregation, from the entering in of Hamath unto the river of Egypt, before the LORD our God, seven days and seven days, even fourteen days.

Held

1 Kings 8:2

Leviticus 23:34

2 Chronicles 7:8

A great

2 Chronicles 30:13

Psalm 40:9

From the entering

The river

Seven days

2 Chronicles 7:8

2 Chronicles 30:23

General references

John 7:2

Bible References

Held

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

Say to the children of Israel, On the fifteenth day of this seventh month let the feast of tents be kept to the Lord for seven days.

So Solomon kept the feast at that time for seven days, and all Israel with him, a very great meeting, for the people had come together from the way into Hamath and from as far as the river of Egypt.

A great

So a very great number of people came together at Jerusalem to keep the feast of unleavened bread in the second month.

I have given news of righteousness in the great meeting; O Lord, you have knowledge that I have not kept back my words.

From the entering

And Solomon was ruler over all the kingdoms from the River to the land of the Philistines, and as far as the edge of Egypt; men gave him offerings and were his servants all the days of his life.

And from Azmon it will go round to the stream of Egypt as far as the sea.

And the land of the Gebalites, and all Lebanon, looking east, from Baal-gad under Mount Hermon as far as Hamath:

The five chiefs of the Philistines, and all the Canaanites and the Zidonians and the Hivites living in Mount Lebanon, from the mountain Baal-hermon as far as Hamath:

He got back the old limits of Israel from the way into Hamath to the sea of the Arabah, as the Lord had said by his servant Jonah, the son of Amittai, the prophet of Gath-hepher.

For see, I will send against you a nation, O Israel, says the Lord, the God of armies, ruling you cruelly from the way into Hamath as far as the stream of the Arabah.

The river

In that day the Lord made an agreement with Abram, and said, To your seed have I given this land from the river of Egypt to the great river, the river Euphrates:

I will let the limits of your land be from the Red Sea to the sea of the Philistines, and from the waste land to the river Euphrates: for I will give the people of those lands into your power; and you will send them out before you.

And from Azmon it will go round to the stream of Egypt as far as the sea.

From the Shihor, which is before Egypt, to the edge of Ekron to the north, which is taken to be Canaanite property: the five chiefs of the Philistines; the Gazites, and the Ashdodites, the Ashkelonites, the Gittites, and the Ekronites, as well as the Avvim;

Seven days

So Solomon kept the feast at that time for seven days, and all Israel with him, a very great meeting, for the people had come together from the way into Hamath and from as far as the river of Egypt.

And by the desire of all the people, the feast went on for another seven days, and they kept the seven days with joy.

General references

But the feast of the Jews, the feast of tents, was near.