1 Kings 8:1

¹ Then Solomon convened in Jerusalem ²  Israel’s elders, all the leaders of the Israelite tribes and families, so they could witness the transferal of the ark of the Lord’s covenant from the city of David (that is, Zion). ³ 

Nu 7:3; Jos 23:2; Jos 24:1; 2Sa 5:7-9; 2Sa 6:1,2,6,12; 2Sa 6:12-17; 1Ki 3:15; 1Ch 11:7; 1Ch 13:1-5; 1Ch 15:3,25; 1Ch 15:29; 1Ch 16:1; 1Ch 28:1; 2Ch 5:2-10; 2Ch 30:1; Ezr 3:1; Ps 9:11; Ps 102:21; Isa 28:16; Isa 46:13; 1Pe 2:6

¹ tc The Old Greek translation includes the following words at the beginning of ch. 8: “It so happened that when Solomon finished building the Lord’s temple and his own house, after twenty years.”

² map For location see Map5 B1; Map6 F3; Map7 E2; Map8 F2; Map10 B3; JP1 F4; JP2 F4; JP3 F4; JP4 F4.

³ tn Heb “Then Solomon convened the elders of Israel, the heads of the tribes, the chiefs of the fathers belonging to the sons of Israel to King Solomon [in] Jerusalem to bring up the ark of the covenant of the Lord from the city of David (it is Zion).”