2 Chronicles 7:9

Bible in Basic English (1941)

And on the eighth day they had a holy meeting; the offerings for making the altar holy went on for seven days, and the feast for seven days.

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Referenced Verses

  • Lev 23:36 : 36 Every day for seven days give an offering made by fire to the Lord; and on the eighth day there is to be a holy meeting, when you are to give an offering made by fire to the Lord; this is a special holy day: you may do no field-work on that day.
  • Deut 16:8 : 8 For six days let your food be unleavened bread; and on the seventh day there is to be a holy meeting to the Lord your God; no work is to be done.
  • 1 Kgs 8:65 : 65 So Solomon and all Israel with him, a very great meeting, (for the people had come together from the way into Hamath to the river of Egypt,) kept the feast at that time before the Lord our God, for two weeks, even fourteen days.
  • 2 Chr 30:23 : 23 And by the desire of all the people, the feast went on for another seven days, and they kept the seven days with joy.
  • Neh 8:18 : 18 And day by day, from the first day till the last, he was reading from the book of the law of God. And they kept the feast for seven days: and on the eighth day there was a holy meeting, as it is ordered in the law.
  • Joel 1:14 : 14 Let a time be fixed for going without food, have a holy meeting, let the old men, even all the people of the land, come together to the house of the Lord your God, crying out to the Lord.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • 2 Chr 7:7-8
    2 verses
    85%

    7 Then Solomon made holy the middle of the open square in front of the house of the Lord, offering the burned offerings there, and the fat of the peace-offerings; for there was not room on the brass altar which Solomon had made for all the burned offerings and the meal offerings and the fat.

    8 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.

  • 1 Kgs 8:64-66
    3 verses
    80%

    64 The same day the king made holy the middle of the open square in front of the house of the Lord, offering there the burned offering and the meal offering and the fat of the peace-offerings; for there was not room on the brass altar of the Lord for the burned offerings and the meal offerings and the fat of the peace-offerings.

    65 So Solomon and all Israel with him, a very great meeting, (for the people had come together from the way into Hamath to the river of Egypt,) kept the feast at that time before the Lord our God, for two weeks, even fourteen days.

    66 And on the eighth day he sent the people away, and, blessing the king, they went to their tents full of joy and glad in their hearts, because of all the good which the Lord had done to David his servant and to Israel his people.

  • Neh 8:17-18
    2 verses
    80%

    17 All the people who had been prisoners and had come back, made tents and were living in them: for from the time of Jeshua, the son of Nun, till that day, the children of Israel had not done so. And there was very great joy.

    18 And day by day, from the first day till the last, he was reading from the book of the law of God. And they kept the feast for seven days: and on the eighth day there was a holy meeting, as it is ordered in the law.

  • 2 Chr 30:23
    80%

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

  • Lev 23:39-41
    3 verses
    79%

    39 But on the fifteenth day of the seventh month, when you have got in all the fruits of the land, you will keep the feast of the Lord for seven days: the first day will be a Sabbath, and the eighth day the same.

    40 On the first day, take the fruit of fair trees, branches of palm-trees, and branches of thick trees and trees from the riverside, and be glad before the Lord for seven days.

    41 And let this feast be kept before the Lord for seven days in the year: it is a rule for ever from generation to generation; in the seventh month let it be kept.

  • 2 Chr 7:10
    79%

    10 And on the twenty-third day of the seventh month, he sent the people away to their tents, full of joy and glad in their hearts, because of all the good which the Lord had done to David and to Solomon and to Israel his people.

  • Num 29:35
    78%

    35 On the eighth day let there be a holy meeting: you may do no field-work;

  • Lev 23:36
    77%

    36 Every day for seven days give an offering made by fire to the Lord; and on the eighth day there is to be a holy meeting, when you are to give an offering made by fire to the Lord; this is a special holy day: you may do no field-work on that day.

  • 1 Kgs 8:2
    77%

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

  • 2 Chr 5:3
    77%

    3 And all the men of Israel came together to the king at the feast in the seventh month.

  • 2 Chr 29:17
    77%

    17 On the first day of the first month the work of making the house holy was started, and on the eighth day they came to the covered way of the Lord; in eight days they made the Lord's house holy, and on the sixteenth day of the first month the work was done.

  • Num 29:12
    75%

    12 And on the fifteenth day of the seventh month let there be a holy meeting; do no field-work, and keep a feast to the Lord for seven days;

  • Ezek 43:26
    75%

    26 For seven days they are to make offerings to take away sin from the altar and to make it clean; so they are to make it holy.

  • Lev 23:7-8
    2 verses
    75%

    7 On the first day you will have a holy meeting; you may do no sort of field-work.

    8 And every day for seven days you will give a burned offering to the Lord; and on the seventh day there will be a holy meeting; you may do no field-work.

  • Lev 8:33
    74%

    33 And you are not to go out from the door of the Tent of meeting for seven days, till the days for making you priest are ended; for this will be the work of seven days.

  • 2 Chr 8:13
    73%

    13 Offering every day what had been ordered by Moses, on the Sabbaths and at the new moon and at the regular feasts three times a year, that is at the feast of unleavened bread, the feast of weeks, and the feast of tents.

  • Neh 8:14
    73%

    14 And they saw that it was recorded in the law that the Lord had given orders by Moses, that the children of Israel were to have tents for their living-places in the feast of the seventh month:

  • Num 28:25
    73%

    25 Then on the seventh day there will be a holy meeting; you may do no field-work.

  • Lev 23:34
    72%

    34 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.

  • Deut 16:8
    72%

    8 For six days let your food be unleavened bread; and on the seventh day there is to be a holy meeting to the Lord your God; no work is to be done.

  • Num 7:88
    72%

    88 And all the oxen for the peace-offerings, twenty-four oxen, the male sheep sixty, and the he-goats sixty, the he-lambs of the first year sixty. This was given for the altar after the holy oil was put on it.

  • 2 Chr 35:17
    72%

    17 And all the children of Israel who were present kept the Passover and the feast of unleavened bread at that time for seven days.

  • Lev 9:1
    72%

    1 And on the eighth day Moses sent for Aaron and his sons and the responsible men of Israel;

  • Exod 13:6
    72%

    6 For seven days let your food be unleavened cakes; and on the seventh day there is to be a feast to the Lord.

  • Exod 29:35
    72%

    35 All these things you are to do to Aaron and his sons as I have given you orders: for seven days the work of making them priests is to go on.

  • 2 Chr 15:11
    72%

    11 And that day they made offerings to the Lord of the things they had taken in war, seven hundred oxen and seven thousand sheep.

  • Num 7:84
    71%

    84 These were the offerings given for the altar by the chiefs of Israel, when the holy oil was put on it: twelve silver plates, twelve silver basins, twelve gold spoons;

  • 1 Kgs 12:32
    71%

    32 And Jeroboam gave orders for a feast in the eighth month, on the fifteenth day of the month, like the feast which is kept in Judah, and he went up to the altar. And in the same way, in Beth-el, he gave offerings to the oxen which he had made, placing in Beth-el the priests of the high places he had made.

  • John 7:2
    71%

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

  • Ezra 3:4
    71%

    4 And they kept the feast of tents, as it is recorded, making the regular burned offerings every day by number, as it is ordered; for every day what was needed.

  • Deut 16:15
    71%

    15 Keep the feast to the Lord your God for seven days, in the place marked out by the Lord: because the blessing of the Lord your God will be on all the produce of your land and all the work of your hands, and you will have nothing but joy.

  • Exod 29:37
    71%

    37 For seven days you are to make offerings for the altar and make it holy, so that it may become completely holy, and anything touching it will become holy.

  • Ezek 44:26
    71%

    26 And after he has been made clean, seven days are to be numbered for him.

  • Num 7:1
    71%

    1 And when Moses had put up the House completely, and had put oil on it and made it holy, with all the things in it, and had made the altar and all its vessels holy with oil;

  • 2 Chr 30:21
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    21 So the children of Israel who were present in Jerusalem kept the feast of unleavened bread for seven days with great joy: and the Levites and the priests gave praise to the Lord day by day, making melody to the Lord with loud instruments.

  • Deut 16:13
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    13 You are to keep the feast of tents for seven days after you have got in all your grain and made your wine:

  • Ezek 45:25
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    25 In the seventh month, on the fifteenth day of the month, at the feast, he is to give the same for seven days; the sin-offering, the burned offering, the meal offering, and the oil as before.

  • 2 Chr 7:4
    70%

    4 Then the king and all the people made offerings before the Lord.

  • Ezra 6:16
    70%

    16 And the children of Israel, the priests and the Levites, and the rest of those who had come back, kept the feast of the opening of this house of God with joy.

  • Lev 25:8
    70%

    8 And let seven Sabbaths of years be numbered to you, seven times seven years; even the days of seven Sabbaths of years, that is forty-nine years;

  • Lev 14:23
    70%

    23 And on the eighth day he will take them to the priest, to the door of the Tent of meeting before the Lord, so that he may be made clean.

  • Lev 12:3
    70%

    3 And on the eighth day let him be given circumcision.

  • Lev 8:11
    70%

    11 Seven times he put oil on the altar and on all its vessels, and on the washing-basin and its base, to make them holy.