2 Chronicles 5
5
1 When Solomon had finished constructing the Lord’s temple, he put the holy items that belonged to his father David (the silver, gold, and all the other articles) in the treasuries of God’s temple.
Solomon Moves the Ark into the Temple
2 Then Solomon convened Israel’s elders – all the leaders of the Israelite tribes and families – in Jerusalem,#map For location see Map5-B1; Map6-F3; Map7-E2; Map8-F2; Map10-B3; JP1-F4; JP2-F4; JP3-F4; JP4-F4. so they could witness the transferal of the ark of the covenant of the Lord from the City of David#sn The phrase the City of David refers here to the fortress of Zion in Jerusalem, not to Bethlehem. See 2 Sam 5:7. (that is, Zion).#tn Heb “Then Solomon convened the elders of Israel, the heads of the tribes, the chiefs of the fathers belonging to the sons of Israel to Jerusalem to bring up the ark of the covenant of the Lord from the City of David (it is Zion).” 3 All the men of Israel assembled before the king during the festival#sn This festival in the seventh month was the Feast of Tabernacles, see Lev 23:34. in the seventh month.#sn The seventh month would be September-October in modern reckoning. 4 When all Israel’s elders had arrived, the Levites lifted the ark. 5 The priests and Levites carried the ark, the tent where God appeared to his people,#tn Heb “the tent of assembly.”sn See Exod 33:7-11. and all the holy items in the tent.#tn Heb “and they carried the ark of the Lord…. The priests and the Levites carried them.” 6 Now King Solomon and all the Israelites who had assembled with him went on ahead of the ark and sacrificed more sheep and cattle than could be counted or numbered.#tn Heb “And King Solomon and all the assembly of Israel, those who had been gathered to him, [were] before the ark, sacrificing sheep and cattle which could not be counted or numbered because of the abundance.”
7 The priests brought the ark of the covenant of the Lord to its assigned#tn The word “assigned” is supplied in the translation for clarification. place in the inner sanctuary of the temple, in the most holy place under the wings of the cherubs. 8 The cherubs’ wings extended over the place where the ark sat; the cherubs overshadowed the ark and its poles.#sn These poles were used to carry the ark. The Levites were to carry it with the poles on their shoulders. See Exod 25:13-15; 1 Chr 15:15. 9 The poles were so long their ends extending out from the ark were visible from in front of the inner sanctuary, but they could not be seen from beyond that point.#tn Heb “they could not be seen outside.” They have remained there to this very day. 10 There was nothing in the ark except the two tablets Moses had placed there in Horeb.#sn Horeb is another name for Mount Sinai (cf. Exod 3:1). (It was there that#tn Heb “in Horeb where.” the Lord made an agreement with the Israelites after he brought them out of the land of Egypt.)
11 The priests left the holy place.#tn Heb “and when the priests went from the holy place.” The syntactical relationship of this temporal clause to the following context is unclear. Perhaps the thought is completed in v. 14 after a lengthy digression. All the priests who participated had consecrated themselves, no matter which division they represented.#tn Heb “Indeed [or “for”] all the priests who were found consecrated themselves without guarding divisions.” 12 All the Levites who were musicians, including Asaph, Heman, Jeduthun, and their sons and relatives, wore linen. They played cymbals and stringed instruments as they stood east of the altar. They were accompanied by 120 priests who blew trumpets. 13 The trumpeters and musicians played together, praising and giving thanks to the Lord. Accompanied by trumpets, cymbals, and other instruments, they loudly praised the Lord, singing:#tn Heb “like one were the trumpeters and the musicians, causing one voice to be heard, praising and giving thanks to the Lord, and while raising a voice with trumpets and with cymbals and with instruments of music, and while praising the Lord.” “Certainly he is good; certainly his loyal love endures!” Then a cloud filled the Lord’s temple.#tn Heb “and the house was filled with a cloud, the house of the Lord.” 14 The priests could not carry out their duties#tn Heb “were not able to stand to serve.” because of the cloud; the Lord’s splendor filled God’s temple.
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2 Chronicles 5
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1So was all the worke finished that Salomon made for the house of the Lord, and Salomon brought in the things that Dauid his father had dedicated, with the siluer and the golde, and all the vessels, and put them among the treasures of the house of God. 2Then Salomon assembled the Elders of Israel, and all the heads of the tribes, the chiefe fathers of the children of Israel vnto Ierusalem to bring vp the Arke of the couenant of the Lord from the citie of Dauid, which is Zion. 3And all ye men of Israel assembled vnto the King at the feast: it was in ye seuenth moneth. 4And all the Elders of Israel came, and the Leuites tooke vp the Arke. 5And they caried vp the Arke and the Tabernacle of the Congregation: and all the holy vessels that were in the Tabernacle, those did the Priests and Leuites bring vp. 6And King Salomon and all the Congregation of Israel that were assembled vnto him, were before ye Arke, offring sheepe and bullocks, which could not be told nor nobred for multitude. 7So the Priests brought the Arke of the couenant of the Lord vnto his place, into the Oracle of the house, into the most Holy place, euen vnder the wings of the Cherubims. 8For ye Cherubims stretched out their wings ouer the place of the Arke, and the Cherubims couered the Arke and the barres thereof aboue. 9And they drewe out the barres, that the endes of the barres might bee seene out of the Arke before the Oracle, but they were not seene without: and there they are vnto this day. 10Nothing was in the Arke, saue the two Tables, which Moses gaue at Horeb, where the Lord made a couenant with the children of Israel, when they came out of Egypt. 11And when the Priestes were come out of the Sanctuarie (for all the Priests that were present, were sanctified and did not waite by course. 12And the Leuites the singers of all sortes, as of Asaph, of Heman, of Ieduthun, and of their sonnes and of their brethren, being clad in fine linen, stoode with cymbales, and with violes and harpes at the East ende of the altar, and with them an hundreth and twentie Priestes blowing with trumpets: 13And they were as one, blowing trumpets, and singing, and made one sounde to bee heard in praysing and thanking the Lord, and when they lift vp their voyce with trumpets and with cymbales, and with instruments of musicke, and when they praysed the Lord, singing, For he is good, because his mercie lasteth for euer) then the house, euen the house of the Lord was filled with a cloude, 14So that the Priests could not stand to minister, because of the cloude: for the glory of the Lord had filled the house of God.
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