2 Chronicles 5:11

11 And when the priests came out of the sanctuary (for all the priests who were present sanctified themselves without keeping their divisions)

2 Chronicles 5:11 Meaning and Commentary

2 Chronicles 5:11

(See Gill on 2 Chronicles 5:1).

2 Chronicles 5:11 In-Context

9 But the poles were [so] long that the ends of the poles from the ark were seen from before the inner sanctuary, but they could not be seen from the outside. And they are there until this day.

10 There was nothing in the ark but the two stone tablets that Moses had put [inside] at Horeb [on] which Yahweh had {made} a covenant with the {Israelites} when they went out from Egypt.

11 And when the priests came out of the sanctuary (for all the priests who were present sanctified themselves without keeping their divisions)

12 and all the Levitical singers--Asaph, Heman, Jeduthun, their sons, their brothers, dressed [in] fine linen, with cymbals, harps, and stringed instruments--[they] were standing to the east of the altar. And with them outside [were] one hundred and twenty priests [who were] trumpet blowers.

13 And it was the primary [duty] of the trumpeters and singers to make themselves heard [with] one voice, to praise and give thanks to Yahweh. And when a sound from the trumpets, cymbals, and other instruments of song was raised to Yahweh--for he [is] good, because his loyal love [is] everlasting--then the house, the house of Yahweh, was filled with a cloud.

Footnotes

• [a]. Or "who were found"