2 Chronicles 5:2-14

The Ark Brought to the Temple

2 Then Solomon assembled the elders of Israel and all the heads of the tribes, the leaders of the fathers' houses of the people of Israel, in Jerusalem, to bring up the ark of the covenant of the LORD out of ¹the city of David, which is Zion.

3 And all the men of Israel assembled before the king at the feast that is in the seventh month.

4 And all the elders of Israel came, ²and the Levites took up the ark.

5 And they brought up the ark, the tent of meeting, and all the holy vessels that were in the tent; ³the Levitical priests brought them up.

6 And King Solomon and all the congregation of Israel, who had assembled before him, were before the ark, sacrificing so many sheep and oxen that they could not be counted or numbered.

7 Then the priests brought the ark of the covenant of the LORD to its place, in the inner sanctuary of the house, in the Most Holy Place, underneath the wings of the cherubim.

8 The cherubim spread out their wings over the place of the ark, so that the cherubim made a covering above the ark and its poles.

9 And the poles were so long that the ends of the poles were seen ⁴from the Holy Place before the inner sanctuary, but they could not be seen from outside. And they are^[a] there to this day.

10 There was nothing in the ark except the two tablets ⁵that Moses put there at Horeb, where the LORD made a covenant with the people of Israel, when they came out of Egypt.

11 And when the priests came out of the Holy Place (for all the priests who were present had consecrated themselves, without regard to ⁶their divisions,

12 and all the Levitical ⁷singers, ⁸Asaph, ⁹Heman, and Jeduthun, their sons and kinsmen, arrayed in fine linen, with ¹⁰cymbals, harps, and lyres, stood east of the altar with 120 ¹¹priests who were trumpeters;

13 and it was the duty of the trumpeters and singers to make themselves heard in unison in praise and thanksgiving to the LORD), and when the song was raised, ¹²with trumpets and cymbals and other musical instruments, in praise to the LORD, ¹³"For he is good, for his steadfast love endures forever,"the house, the house of the LORD, was filled with a cloud,

14 so that the priests could not stand to minister because of the cloud, ¹⁴for the glory of the LORD filled the house of God.

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2 Chronicles 5:2-14 Meaning and Commentary

INTRODUCTION TO 2 CHRONICLES 5 & 6

The words with which chapter five begins are the same with 1Ki 7:51, and what is contained in that and chapter six is much the same with 1Ki 8:1-66 on which see the notes; the blessing of Solomon on the people of Israel, which is there, is here omitted, and two verses are here added, much the same with Ps 132:8-10.

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Taken from John Gill's Exposition of the Bible

Cross References 14

1. 2 Samuel 6:12
2. [ver. 7; 1 Kings 8:3]
3. 2 Chronicles 23:18; 2 Chronicles 30:27
4. [1 Kings 8:8]
5. Deuteronomy 10:2, 5; [2 Chronicles 6:11]
6. 1 Chronicles 24:1, 5; [Luke 1:5]
7. See 1 Chronicles 25:1-4
8. See 1 Chronicles 6:39
9. See 1 Chronicles 6:33
10. 1 Chronicles 15:16; Psalms 150:3-5
11. 2 Chronicles 7:6; 1 Chronicles 15:24
12. 1 Chronicles 16:42
13. See 1 Chronicles 16:34
14. 2 Chronicles 7:2; 1 Kings 8:11; [Exodus 40:35; Ezekiel 10:3, 4]

Footnotes 1

[a]. Hebrew it is

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