8 At that time Solʹo·mon congregated+ the elders of Israel, all the heads of the tribes, the chieftains of the paternal houses of Israel.+ They came to King Solʹo·mon at Jerusalem to bring up the ark of the covenant of Jehovah from the City of David,+ that is, Zion.+ 2 All the men of Israel assembled before King Solʹo·mon at the festival* in the month of Ethʹa·nim,* that is, the seventh month.+