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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.
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A Sacred and Intentional Reunion
Commentators explain that the gathering in the "seventh month" (Tisri, our September/October) was highly intentional. This was the most sacred month in the Jewish calendar, containing the Day of Atonement and the Feast of Tabernacles. Their first major act as a community was to re-establish worship according to God's ordained time.
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18th Century
Presbyterian
The seventh month - i. e., the month Tisri (nearly our September), the most sacred month in the Jewish year (Exodus 23:16; [Refe…
19th Century
Anglican
The seventh month was come. —Rather, approached. Tisri, answering to our September, was…
17th Century
Reformed Baptist
And when the seventh month had come The month Tisri, which answers to part of September and October; or when it "was…
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