“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,”
The call to sanctify a fast and call a solemn assembly indicates that the priests must convoke the people for corporate repentance and prayer, suggesting that the judgment requires institutional and communal religious response. The gathering of elders and inhabitants indicates that all social classes participate in the assembly. This verse establishes fasting and assembly as the appropriate institutional response to divine judgment.
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