1Ki 8:1 | HCSB | STEP | At that time Solomon assembled the elders of Israel , all the tribal heads and the ancestral leaders of the Israelites before him at Jerusalem in order to bring the ark of the Lord ’s covenant from the city of David , that is Zion .

1 Kings 8:1

1 At that time Solomon assembled the elders ^a of Israel, ^b all the tribal heads ^c and the ancestral leaders of the Israelites before him at Jerusalem in order to bring the ark of the Lord’s covenant from the city of David, ^d that is ^{▼▼Zion: Originally a term for the fortified section of Jerusalem and then, by extension, used for the temple and the city of Jerusalem both in the present time and in the future}Zion. ^f