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Background: Bible
A solemn assembly is a corporate gathering
to collectively cry out to God for mercy.
There are nine such meetings listed in the
Old Testament (KJV).
Leviticus 23:36
Seven days ye shall offer an offering made
by fire unto the Lord: on the eighth day shall be an holy
convocation unto you; and ye shall offer an offering made by
fire unto the Lord: it is a solemn assembly; and ye shall do
no servile work therein.
Numbers 29:35
On the eighth day ye shall have
a solemn assembly: ye shall do no servile work therein:
Deuteronomy 16:8
Six days thou shalt eat unleavened bread:
and on the seventh day shall be a solemn assembly to
the Lord thy God: thou shalt do no work therein.
2 Kings 10:20
And Jehu said, Proclaim
a solemn assembly for Baal. And they proclaimed it.
2 Chronicles 7:9
And in the eighth day they made
a solemn assembly: for they kept the dedication of the altar
seven days, and the feast seven days.
Nehemiah 8:18
Also day by day, from the first day unto the
last day, he read in the book of the law of God. And they kept
the feast seven days; and on the eighth day was
a solemn assembly, according unto the manner.
Lamentations 2:6
And he hath violently taken away his
tabernacle, as if it were of a garden: he hath destroyed his
places of the assembly: the Lordhath caused the solemn feasts
and sabbaths to be forgotten in Zion, and hath despised in the
indignation of his anger the king and the priest.
Joel 1:14
Sanctify ye a fast, call a solemn assembly,
gather the elders and all the inhabitants of the land into the
house of the Lord your God, and cry unto the Lord,
Joel 2:15
Blow the trumpet in Zion, sanctify a fast,
call a solemnassembly:
Zephaniah 3:18
I will gather them that are sorrowful for
the solemn assembly, who are of thee, to whom the reproach of
it was a burden.
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