the king.

Deuteronomy 31:28
Assemble before me all the elders of your tribes and all your officers so that I may speak these words in their hearing and call heaven and earth to witness against them.

2 Samuel 6:1
David again assembled the choice men of Israel, thirty thousand in all.

2 Chronicles 29:20
Early the next morning King Hezekiah gathered the city officials and went up to the house of the LORD.

2 Chronicles 30:2
For the king and his officials and the whole assembly in Jerusalem had decided to keep the Passover in the second month,

2 Chronicles 34:29, 30-33
Then the king summoned all the elders of Judah and Jerusalem. . . .