I was almost in all evil in the midst of the congregation and assembly.
I was almost in all evil-in the midst of the congregation and assembly. There was scarcely any sin that I did not engage in; and this, in the midst of the congregation and assembly - i:e., openly, shamelessly, in the assembly for worship, where of all places I should have abstained from evil: like the Israelite committing fornication with the Midianite woman in the sight of all the congregation (Numbers 25:6-7; Ezekiel 8:5-16); and like Eli's sons "at the door of the tabernacle of the congregation (1 Samuel 2:22). Too "congregation" - Hebrew, qaahaal (H6951) - means the whole body of worshippers, the Church х ekkleesia (G1577)], without reference to a fixed place or appointed time of meeting. The "assembly" - [Hebrew, `eedaah (H5712)] - means, on the contrary, an appointed meeting of the congregation at a fixed place and time. Every assembly of persons meeting together is 'eedaah. But a great consenting assembly or body, consisting of the citizens of one state as distinct from others, is qaahaal. The church and the congregation is the best translation. Lust makes men shameless and reckless as to all sin.