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And the priests stood arrayed in their garments, with musical instruments and trumpets, and the Levites, the sons of Asaph, with cymbals,
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praising the Lord and blessing him, according to the directions of David king of Israel;
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and they sang hymns, giving thanks to the Lord, because his goodness and his glory are for ever upon all Israel.
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And all the people sounded trumpets and shouted with a great shout, praising the Lord for the erection of the house of the Lord.
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Some of the Levitical priests and heads of fathers' houses, old men who had seen the former house, came to the building of this one with outcries and loud weeping,
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