Numbers 29:35

a solemn assembly an assembly. The Heb. word -aẓerethcontains nothing which implies that the assembly was of a specially solemn character. Before the exile an -aẓerethwas held on the seventh day of the Feast of Unleavened Cakes (Deuteronomy 16:8); and see Isaiah 1:13 (R.V. -solemn meeting"), Amos 5:21. After the exile it was used, as here, of an assembly on the additional eighth day of the Feast of Booths (Leviticus 23:36; Nehemiah 8:18), and on a special fast day (Joel 1:14; Joel 2:15); and the Chronicler relates that such an assembly was held as the climax of rejoicing on the eighth day (contrast 1 Kings 8:66) at the dedication of Solomon's temple (2 Chronicles 7:9).