Lexicon :: Strong's H5712 - ʿēḏâ

“the assembly is to judge between the person who kills someone and the avenger of blood according to these ordinances.

So Joshua established peace with them and made a treaty to let them live, and the leaders of the community swore an oath to them.

The entire Israelite community assembled at Shiloh and set up the tent of meeting there. The land had been subdued before them,

“He is to stay in that city until he stands trial before the assembly and until the death of the high priest serving at that time. Then the one who committed manslaughter may return home to his own city from which he fled.”

When the Israelites heard this, the entire Israelite community assembled at Shiloh to go to war against them.

After some time, when he returned to marry her, he left the road to see the lion’s carcass, and there was a swarm of bees with honey in the carcass.

All the Israelites from Dan to Beer-sheba and from the land of Gilead came out, and the community assembled as one body before the LORD at Mizpah.

The congregation sent twelve thousand brave warriors there and commanded them, “Go and kill the inhabitants of Jabesh-gilead with the sword, including women and dependents.

King Solomon and the entire congregation of Israel, who had gathered around him and were with him in front of the ark, were sacrificing sheep, goats, and cattle that could not be counted or numbered, because there were so many.

When all Israel heard that Jeroboam had come back, they summoned him to the assembly and made him king over all Israel. No one followed the house of David except the tribe of Judah alone.

King Solomon and the entire congregation of Israel who had gathered around him were in front of the ark sacrificing sheep, goats, and cattle that could not be counted or numbered because there were so many.

For the company of the godless will have no children,

and fire will consume the tents of those who offer bribes.

Surely he[fn] has now exhausted me.

You have devastated my entire family.

Therefore the wicked will not stand up in the judgment,

nor sinners in the assembly of the righteous.

Let the assembly of peoples gather around you;

take your seat on high over it.

For dogs have surrounded me;

a gang of evildoers has closed in on me;

they pierced[fn] my hands and my feet.

Rebuke the beast in the reeds,

the herd of bulls with the calves of the peoples.

Trample underfoot those with bars of silver.[fn]

Scatter the peoples who take pleasure in war.

Remember your congregation,

which you purchased long ago

and redeemed as the tribe for your own possession.

Remember Mount Zion where you dwell.

God stands in the divine assembly;

he pronounces judgment among the gods:[fn]

God, arrogant people have attacked me;

a gang of ruthless men intends to kill me.

They do not let you guide them.[fn]

The earth opened up and swallowed Dathan;

it covered the assembly of Abiram.

Hallelujah![fn]

I will praise the LORD with all my heart

in the assembly of the upright and in the congregation.

“I am on the verge of complete ruin

before the entire community.”

Therefore listen, you nations

and you witnesses,

learn what the charge is against them.

His children will be as in past days;

his congregation will be established in my presence.

I will punish all his oppressors.

As they are going, I will spread my net over them;

I will bring them down like birds of the sky.

I will discipline them in accordance

with the news that reaches[fn] their assembly.