Bible Verses About Civic gatherings

Let them exalt him also in the congregation of the people, and praise him in the assembly of the elders.

And when they bring you unto the synagogues, and unto magistrates, and powers, take ye no thought how or what thing ye shall answer, or what ye shall say:

Gather the people together, men, and women, and children, and thy stranger that is within thy gates, that they may hear, and that they may learn, and fear the Lord your God, and observe to do all the words of this law:

Then rose up certain of the elders of the land, and spake to all the assembly of the people, saying,

And ye shall be brought before governors and kings for my sake, for a testimony against them and the Gentiles.

And after the reading of the law and the prophets the rulers of the synagogue sent unto them, saying, Ye men and brethren, if ye have any word of exhortation for the people, say on.

When the people are gathered together, and the kingdoms, to serve the Lord.

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,

And the next sabbath day came almost the whole city together to hear the word of God.

What is it therefore? the multitude must needs come together: for they will hear that thou art come.

Let all the nations be gathered together, and let the people be assembled: who among them can declare this, and shew us former things? let them bring forth their witnesses, that they may be justified: or let them hear, and say, It is truth.

Submit yourselves to every ordinance of man for the Lord’s sake: whether it be to the king, as supreme;

In the first day shall be an holy convocation; ye shall do no manner of servile work therein:

For where two or three are gathered together in my name, there am I in the midst of them.

But if ye enquire any thing concerning other matters, it shall be determined in a lawful assembly.

These are the feasts of the Lord, even holy convocations, which ye shall proclaim in their seasons.

Gather yourselves together, yea, gather together, O nation not desired;

Let now our rulers of all the congregation stand, and let all them which have taken strange wives in our cities come at appointed times, and with them the elders of every city, and the judges thereof, until the fierce wrath of our God for this matter be turned from us.

In the first day ye shall have an holy convocation: ye shall do no servile work therein.

But take heed to yourselves: for they shall deliver you up to councils; and in the synagogues ye shall be beaten: and ye shall be brought before rulers and kings for my sake, for a testimony against them.

Go, stand and speak in the temple to the people all the words of this life.

Blow the trumpet in Zion, sanctify a fast, call a solemn assembly:

And all went to be taxed, every one into his own city.

When ye come together therefore into one place, this is not to eat the Lord’s supper.

For kings, and for all that are in authority; that we may lead a quiet and peaceable life in all godliness and honesty.

Then Peter, filled with the Holy Ghost, said unto them, Ye rulers of the people, and elders of Israel,

Put them in mind to be subject to principalities and powers, to obey magistrates, to be ready to every good work,

For if there come unto your assembly a man with a gold ring, in goodly apparel, and there come in also a poor man in vile raiment;

On the first day shall be an holy convocation: ye shall do no servile work therein.

And Jehoshaphat stood in the congregation of Judah and Jerusalem, in the house of the Lord, before the new court,

And in controversy they shall stand in judgment; and they shall judge it according to my judgments: and they shall keep my laws and my statutes in all mine assemblies; and they shall hallow my sabbaths.

And when the seventh month was come, and the children of Israel were in the cities, the people gathered themselves together as one man to Jerusalem.

And of the rest durst no man join himself to them: but the people magnified them.

Seest thou not what they do in the cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem?

Declare ye in Judah, and publish in Jerusalem; and say, Blow ye the trumpet in the land: cry, gather together, and say, Assemble yourselves, and let us go into the defenced cities.

And Jehu said, Proclaim a solemn assembly for Baal. And they proclaimed it.

Then shall ye begin to say, We have eaten and drunk in thy presence, and thou hast taught in our streets.

Bring no more vain oblations; incense is an abomination unto me; the new moons and sabbaths, the calling of assemblies, I cannot away with; it is iniquity, even the solemn meeting.

And the king sent, and they gathered unto him all the elders of Judah and of Jerusalem.

Therefore hear, ye nations, and know, O congregation, what is among them.