Then the king turned around ¹  and pronounced a blessing over the whole Israelite assembly as they stood there. ² 

Then the king turned around ¹  and pronounced a blessing over the whole Israelite assembly as they stood there. ² 

I will declare your name to my countrymen! ¹  In the middle of the assembly I will praise you!

I hate the mob ¹  of evil men, and do not associate ²  with the wicked.

I almost ¹  came to complete ruin ²  in the midst of the whole congregation!” ³ 

They will summon a mob who will stone you and hack you in pieces with their swords.

Then Moses and Aaron fell down with their faces to the ground ¹  before the whole assembled community ²  of the Israelites.

Why ¹  have you brought up the Lord’s community into this wilderness? So that ²  we and our cattle should die here?

Then Moses recited the words of this song from start to finish in the hearing of the whole assembly of Israel.

Solomon stood before the altar of the Lord in front of the entire assembly of Israel and spread out his hands toward the sky. ¹ 

When he stood up, he pronounced a blessing over the entire assembly of Israel, saying in a loud voice:

They sent for him, ¹  and Jeroboam and the whole Israelite assembly came and spoke to Rehoboam, saying,

He stood before the altar of the Lord in front of the entire assembly of Israel and spread out his hands.

and to all the infants, wives, sons, and daughters of the entire assembly listed in the genealogical records, for they faithfully consecrated themselves.

Then some of the elders of Judah ¹  stepped forward and spoke to all the people gathered there. They said,

“For this is what the sovereign Lord says: Bring up an army ¹  against them and subject them ²  to terror and plunder.

You must care for it ¹  until the fourteenth day of this month, and then the whole community ²  of Israel will kill it around sundown. ³ 

A huge crowd assembled in Jerusalem to observe the Feast of Unleavened Bread in the second month. ¹ 

The celebration included ¹  the entire assembly of Judah, the priests, the Levites, the entire assembly of those who came from Israel, the resident foreigners who came from the land of Israel, and the residents of Judah.

Then I will reply, ¹  ‘I will bring them back from the land of the north. I will gather them in from the distant parts of the earth. Blind and lame people will come with them, so will pregnant women and women about to give birth. A vast throng of people will come back here.