King James Version
1 Kings 8:3 in the King James Version says “And all the elders of Israel came, and the priests took up the ark.” — study this verse from 1 Kings chapter 8 with commentary, cross-references, and original Hebrew word analysis.
“And all the elders of Israel came, and the priests took up the ark.”
1 Kings 8:3 · KJV
Then Solomon assembled the elders of Israel, and all the heads of the tribes, the chief of the fathers of the children of Israel, unto king Solomon in Jerusalem, that they might bring up the ark of the covenant of the LORD out of the city of David, which is Zion. chief: Heb. princes
And all the men of Israel assembled themselves unto king Solomon at the feast in the month Ethanim, which is the seventh month.
And all the elders of Israel came, and the priests took up the ark.
And they brought up the ark of the LORD, and the tabernacle of the congregation, and all the holy vessels that were in the tabernacle, even those did the priests and the Levites bring up.
And king Solomon, and all the congregation of Israel, that were assembled unto him, were with him before the ark, sacrificing sheep and oxen, that could not be told nor numbered for multitude.
KJV Study — Public Domain
properly, the whole; hence, all, any or every (in the singular only, but often in a plural sense)
“of Israel”
H3478he will rule as god; jisral, a symbolical name of jacob; also (typically) of his posterity
“took up”
H5375to lift, in a great variety of applications, literal and figurative, absolute and relative
“and the priests”
H3548literally one officiating, a priest; also (by courtesy) an acting priest (although a layman)
properly, self (but generally used to point out more definitely the object of a verb or preposition, even or namely)
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