2 Chronicles 5
2 Chronicles 5:1 So all the work Solomon did for Yahveh’s temple was completed. Then Solomon brought the consecrated things of his father David- the silver, the gold, and all the utensils- and put them in the treasuries of God’s temple.
2 Chronicles 5:2 At that time, Solomon collected[1] at Jerusalem the elders of Israel — all the tribal heads, the ancestral chiefs of the Israelites — in order to bring the ark of the covenant of Yahvehup from the city of David, that is, Zion.
2 Chronicles 5:3 So all the men of Israel were assembled in the king’s presence at the festival; this was in the seventh month.
2 Chronicles 5:4 All the elders of Israel came, and the Levites picked up the ark.
2 Chronicles 5:5 The priests and the Levites brought up the ark, the conference tent, and the sacred utensils that were in the tent.
2 Chronicles 5:6 King Solomon and the entire congregation[2] of Israel who had gathered around him were in the face of the ark sacrificing sheep, goats, and cattle that could not be counted or numbered because there were so many.
2 Chronicles 5:7 The priests brought the ark of Yahveh’s covenant to its place, into the inner sanctuary of the temple, to the holiest place, beneath the wings of the cherubim.
2 Chronicles 5:8 And the cherubim spread their wings over the place of the ark so that the cherubim formed a cover above the ark and its poles.
2 Chronicles 5:9 The poles were so long that their ends were seen from the sacred place in the face of the inner sanctuary, but they were not seen from outside; they are still there today.
2 Chronicles 5:10 Nothing was in the ark except the two tablets that Moses had put in it at Horeb, where Yahveh had established a covenant with the Israelites when they came out of Egypt.
2 Chronicles 5:11 Now all the priests who were present had consecrated themselves regardless[3] of their divisions. When the priests came out of the sacred place,
2 Chronicles 5:12 the Levitical singers dressed in fine linen and carrying cymbals, harps, and lyres were standing east of the altar, and with them were 120 priests blowing trumpets. The Levitical singers were descendants of Asaph, Heman, and Jeduthun and their sons and relatives.
2 Chronicles 5:13 The trumpeters and singers joined together to praise and thank Yahveh with one voice. They raised their voices, accompanied by trumpets, cymbals, and musical instruments, in praise to Yahveh: For he is good; his covenant faithfulness endures permanently. The temple, Yahveh’s temple, was filled with a cloud.
2 Chronicles 5:14 And because of the cloud, the priests were not able to continue ministering,[4] because the impressive appearance of Yahveh filled God’s temple.
[1] קָהַל = collect. 2 Chronicles 5:2, 3; 11:1; 20:26.
[2] עֵדָה = congregation. 2 Chronicles 5:6.
[3] שָׁמַר = be careful, guard, regard. 2 Chronicles 5:11; 6:14, 15, 16; 7:17; 12:10; 13:11; 19:7; 23:6; 33:8; 34:9, 21, 22, 31.
[4] שָׁרָת = minister. 2 Chronicles 5:14; 8:14; 9:4; 13:10; 17:19; 22:8; 23:6; 29:11; 31:2.
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