2 Chronicleschapter 5
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A.The ark carried in, with nothing in it but the two tablesvv. 1-10
1 So all the work that Solomon had performed for the house of the LORD was completed. Then Solomon brought in the items his father David had dedicated—the silver, the gold, and all the furnishings—and he placed them in the treasuries of the house of God. 2 At that time Solomon assembled in Jerusalem the elders of Israel—all the tribal heads and family leaders of the Israelites—to bring up the ark of the covenant of the LORD from Zion, the City of David. 3 So all the men of Israel came together to the king at the feast in the seventh month. 4 When all the elders of Israel had arrived, the Levites took up the ark, 5 and they brought up the ark and the Tent of Meeting with all its sacred furnishings. The Levitical priests carried them up. 6 There, before the ark, King Solomon and the whole congregation of Israel who had assembled with him sacrificed 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 temple, the Most Holy Place, beneath the wings of the cherubim. 8 For the cherubim spread their wings over the place of the ark and overshadowed the ark and its poles. 9 The poles of the ark extended far enough that their ends were visible from in front of the inner sanctuary, but not from outside the Holy Place; and they are there to this day. 10 There was nothing in the ark except the two tablets that Moses had placed in it at Horeb, where the LORD had made a covenant with the Israelites after they had come out of Egypt.
B.One voice of praise, and a cloud the priests cannot stand invv. 11-14
11 Now all the priests who were present had consecrated themselves regardless of their divisions. And when the priests came out of the Holy Place, 12 all the Levitical singers—Asaph, Heman, Jeduthun, and their sons and relatives—stood on the east side of the altar, dressed in fine linen and playing cymbals, harps, and lyres, accompanied by 120 priests sounding trumpets. 13 The trumpeters and singers joined together to praise and thank the LORD with one voice. They lifted up their voices, accompanied by trumpets, cymbals, and musical instruments, in praise to the LORD: “For He is good; His loving devotion endures forever.” And the temple, the house of the LORD, was filled with a cloud 14 so that the priests could not stand there to minister because of the cloud; for the glory of the LORD filled the house of God.
Chapter summary
The work is finished, David's dedicated silver and gold brought into the treasuries, and the ark comes up from Zion in the seventh month.
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Chapter summary
The work is finished, David's dedicated silver and gold brought into the treasuries, and the ark comes up from Zion in the seventh month.
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The work is finished, David's dedicated silver and gold brought into the treasuries, and the ark comes up from Zion in the seventh month. The staves stay in place, and nothing is in the ark 'save the two tables which Moses put there at Horeb.' Then the moment the Chronicler has been building toward for two books: the Levite singers in white linen with cymbals and psalteries and harps, a hundred and twenty priests with trumpets, all sounding 'as one, to make one sound to be heard in praising and thanking Jehovah,' and the refrain 'for he is good; for his lovingkindness endureth for ever'. And the cloud fills the house so the priests cannot stand to minister.
Drawn from Jamieson, Fausset & Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory, Matthew Henry, Complete Commentary and John Wesley, Notes on the Old Testament.
Context
History · Ezra — 2 Chronicles overview
- A. 1–10 The ark carried in, with nothing in it but the two tables
- B. 11–14 One voice of praise, and a cloud the priests cannot stand in
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1 Kings 86 verses
- 1 Kings 8:2And all the men of Israel came together to King Solomon at the feast in the seventh month, the month of Ethanim.
- 1 Kings 8:3When all the elders of Israel had arrived, the priests took up the ark,
- 1 Kings 8:4and they brought up the ark of the LORD and the Tent of Meeting with all its sacred furnishings. So the priests and Levites carried them up.
- 1 Kings 8:6Then the priests brought the ark of the covenant of the LORD to its place in the inner sanctuary of the temple, the Most Holy Place, beneath the wings of the cherubim.
- 1 Kings 8:8The poles extended far enough that their ends were visible from the Holy Place in front of the inner sanctuary, but not from outside the Holy Place; and they are there to this day.
- 1 Kings 8:11so that the priests could not stand there to minister because of the cloud; for the glory of the LORD filled the house of the LORD.
- Read 1 Kings 8 →
2 Samuel 62 verses
- 2 Samuel 6:12Now it was reported to King David, “The LORD has blessed the house of Obed-edom and all that belongs to him, because of the ark of God.” So David went and had the ark of God brought up from the house of Obed-edom into the City of David with rejoicing.
- 2 Samuel 6:13When those carrying the ark of the LORD had advanced six paces, he sacrificed an ox and a fattened calf.
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2 Chronicles 12 verses
- 2 Chronicles 1:3And Solomon and the whole assembly went to the high place at Gibeon because it was the location of God’s Tent of Meeting, which Moses the servant of the LORD had made in the wilderness.
- 2 Chronicles 1:4Now David had brought the ark of God from Kiriath-jearim to the place he had prepared for it, because he had pitched a tent for it in Jerusalem.
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2 Chronicles 72 verses
- 2 Chronicles 7:3When all the Israelites saw the fire coming down and the glory of the LORD above the temple, they bowed down on the pavement with their faces to the ground, and they worshiped and gave thanks to the LORD: “For He is good; His loving devotion endures forever.”
- 2 Chronicles 7:8So at that time Solomon and all Israel with him—a very great assembly of people from Lebo-hamath to the Brook of Egypt—kept the feast for seven days.
- Read 2 Chronicles 7 →
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Exodus 372 verses
- Exodus 37:3And he cast four gold rings for its four feet, two rings on one side and two on the other.
- Exodus 37:6He constructed a mercy seat of pure gold, two and a half cubits long and a cubit and a half wide.
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1 Chronicles 62 verses
- 1 Chronicles 6:33These are the men who served, together with their sons. From the Kohathites:
- 1 Chronicles 6:39Heman’s kinsman was Asaph, who served at his right hand:
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1 Chronicles 261 verse
- 1 Chronicles 26:26This Shelomith and his brothers were in charge of all the treasuries for the things dedicated by King David, by the heads of families who were the commanders of thousands and of hundreds, and by the army commanders.
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1 Kings 71 verse
- 1 Kings 7:51So all the work that King Solomon had performed for the house of the LORD was completed. Then Solomon brought in the items his father David had dedicated—the silver, the gold, and the furnishings—and he placed them in the treasuries of the house of the LORD.
- Read 1 Kings 7 →
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