Lexicon :: Strong's G1577 - ekklēsia

“The day you stood before the LORD your God at Horeb, the LORD said to me, ‘Assemble the people before me, and I will let them hear my words, so that they may learn to fear me all the days they live on the earth and may instruct their children.’

“On the day of the assembly the LORD gave me the two stone tablets, inscribed by God’s finger. The exact words were on them, which the LORD spoke to you from the fire on the mountain.

“This is what you requested from the LORD your God at Horeb on the day of the assembly when you said, ‘Let us not continue to hear the voice of the LORD our God or see this great fire any longer, so that we will not die! ’

“No man whose testicles have been crushed or whose penis has been cut off may enter the LORD’s assembly.

“The children born to them in the third generation may enter the LORD’s assembly.

Then Moses recited aloud every single word of this song to the entire assembly of Israel:

There was not a word of all that Moses had commanded that Joshua did not read before the entire assembly of Israel, including the women, the dependents, and the resident aliens who lived among them.

The leaders of all the people and of all the tribes of Israel presented themselves in the assembly of God’s people: four hundred thousand armed foot soldiers.

The Israelites asked, “Who of all the tribes of Israel didn’t come to the LORD with the assembly? ” For a great oath had been taken that anyone who had not come to the LORD at Mizpah would certainly be put to death.

They asked, “Which city among the tribes of Israel didn’t come to the LORD at Mizpah? ” It turned out that no one from Jabesh-gilead had come to the camp and the assembly.

“and this whole assembly will know that it is not by sword or by spear that the LORD saves, for the battle is the LORD’s. He will hand you over to us.”

he sent agents to seize David. However, when they saw the group of prophets prophesying with Samuel leading them, the Spirit of God came on Saul’s agents, and they also started prophesying.

The king turned around and blessed the entire congregation of Israel while they were standing.

Then Solomon stood before the altar of the LORD in front of the entire congregation of Israel and spread out his hands toward heaven.

and he stood and blessed the whole congregation of Israel with a loud voice:

Solomon and all Israel with him ​— ​a great assembly, from the entrance of Hamath[fn] to the Brook of Egypt ​— ​observed the festival at that time in the presence of the LORD our God, seven days, and seven more days ​— ​fourteen days.[fn]

Then he said to the whole assembly of Israel, “If it seems good to you, and if this is from the LORD our God, let’s spread out and send the message to the rest of our relatives in all the districts of Israel, including the priests and Levites in their cities with pasturelands, that they should gather together with us.

Since the proposal seemed right to all the people, the whole assembly agreed to do it.

Then King David rose to his feet and said, “Listen to me, my brothers and my people. It was in my heart to build a house as a resting place for the ark of the LORD’s covenant and as a footstool for our God. I had made preparations to build,

“So now in the sight of all Israel, the assembly of the LORD, and in the hearing of our God, observe and follow all the commands of the LORD your God so that you may possess this good land and leave it as an inheritance to your descendants forever.

Then King David said to all the assembly, “My son Solomon ​— ​God has chosen him alone ​— ​is young and inexperienced. The task is great because the building will not be built for a human but for the LORD God.

Then David blessed the LORD in the sight of all the assembly. David said,

May you be blessed, LORD God of our father Israel, from eternity to eternity.

Then David said to the whole assembly, “Blessed be the LORD your God.” So the whole assembly praised the LORD God of their ancestors. They knelt low and paid homage to the LORD and the king.

Solomon and the whole assembly with him went to the high place that was in Gibeon because God’s tent of meeting, which the LORD’s servant Moses had made in the wilderness, was there.

but he put[fn] the bronze altar, which Bezalel son of Uri, son of Hur, had made, in front of the LORD’s tabernacle. Solomon and the assembly inquired of him[fn] there.

Then the king turned and blessed the entire congregation of Israel while they were standing.

Then Solomon stood before the altar of the LORD in front of the entire congregation of Israel and spread out his hands.

So Solomon and all Israel with him ​— ​a very great assembly, from the entrance to Hamath[fn] to the Brook of Egypt ​— ​observed the festival at that time for seven days.

So they summoned him. Then Jeroboam and all Israel came and spoke to Rehoboam:

Then Jehoshaphat stood in the assembly of Judah and Jerusalem in the LORD’s temple before the new courtyard.

In the middle of the congregation, the Spirit of the LORD came on Jahaziel (son of Zechariah, son of Benaiah, son of Jeiel, son of Mattaniah, a Levite from Asaph’s descendants),

Then the whole assembly made a covenant with the king in God’s temple. Jehoiada said to them, “Here is the king’s son! He will reign, just as the LORD promised concerning David’s sons.

The army left the captives and the plunder in the presence of the officers and the congregation.

Then they brought the goats for the sin offering right into the presence of the king and the congregation, who laid their hands on them.

The whole assembly was worshiping, singing the song, and blowing the trumpets ​— ​all this continued until the burnt offering was completed.

Hezekiah concluded, “Now you are consecrated[fn] to the LORD. Come near and bring sacrifices and thanksgiving offerings to the LORD’s temple.” So the congregation brought sacrifices and thanksgiving offerings, and all those with willing hearts brought burnt offerings.

For the king and his officials and the entire congregation in Jerusalem decided to observe the Passover of the LORD in the second month,

The proposal pleased the king and the congregation,

A very large assembly of people was gathered in Jerusalem to observe the Festival of Unleavened Bread in the second month.

for there were many in the assembly who had not consecrated themselves, and so the Levites were in charge of slaughtering the Passover lambs for every unclean person to consecrate the lambs to the LORD.

The whole congregation decided to observe seven more days, so they observed seven days with joy,

While Ezra prayed and confessed, weeping and falling facedown before the house of God, an extremely large assembly of Israelite men, women, and children gathered around him. The people also wept bitterly.

Whoever did not come within three days would forfeit all his possessions,[fn] according to the decision of the leaders and elders, and would be excluded from the assembly of the exiles.