2 Chronicles 5:1-10

The Ark Is Brought into the Temple

1 ¹Thus all the work that Solomon performed for the house of the LORD was finished. And Solomon brought in the ²things that David his father had dedicated, even the silver and the gold and all the utensils, and put them in the treasuries of the house of God.

2 ³Then Solomon assembled to Jerusalem the elders of Israel and all the heads of the tribes, the leaders of the fathers' households of the sons of Israel, ⁴to bring up the ark of the covenant of the LORD out of the city of David, which is Zion.

3 ⁵All the men of Israel assembled themselves to the king at ⁶the feast, that is in the seventh month.

4 Then all the elders of Israel came, and ⁷the Levites took up the ark.

5 They brought up the ark and the tent of meeting and all the holy utensils which were in the tent; the Levitical priests brought them up.

6 And King Solomon and all the congregation of Israel who were assembled with him before the ark, were 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, into the inner sanctuary of the house, to the holy of holies, under the wings of the cherubim.

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

9 The poles were so long that ⁸the ends of the poles of the ark could be seen in front of the inner sanctuary, but they could not be seen outside; and they are there to this day.

10 ⁹There was nothing in the ark except the two tablets which Moses put there at Horeb, where the LORD made a covenant with the sons of Israel, when they came out of Egypt.

2 Chronicles 5:1-10 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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Cross References

• 1. 1 Kings 7:51
• 2. 2 Samuel 8:11; 1 Chronicles 18:11
• 3. 1 Kings 8:1-9
• 4. 2 Samuel 6:12-15; 1 Chronicles 15:25-28; 2 Chronicles 1:4
• 5. 1 Kings 8:2
• 6. 2 Chronicles 7:8-10
• 7. Joshua 3:6; 2 Chronicles 5:7
• 8. 1 Kings 8:8, 9
• 9. Deuteronomy 10:2-5; Hebrews 9:4

Footnotes

• [a]. Lit "dedicated things of David,"
• [b]. Lit "sheep...numbered for multitude"
• [c]. Lit "poles above"
• [d]. Lit "it is"