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Scriptural Text [& Editorial]
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Commentary & Explanation
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Footnotes ~ References ~ JST
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CHAPTER 5
The temple finished and the ark of the covenant placed in holy of
holies—Glory of the Lord fills the temple.
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1 THUS all the work that Solomon made for the house of the LORD was finished: and Solomon brought in all the things that David his father had dedicated; and the silver, and the gold, and all the instruments, put he among the treasures of the house of God.
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2 ¶ Then Solomon assembled the
aelders of Israel, and all the heads of the tribes, the
chief of the fathers of the children of Israel, unto Jerusalem, to bring up
the bark of the covenant of the LORD out of the city of
David, which is Zion.
3 Wherefore all the men of Israel assembled themselves unto the king in the feast which was in the seventh month.
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4 And all the elders of Israel came; and the Levites took up the ark.
5 And they brought up the ark, and the
tabernacle of the congregation, and all the holy vessels that were in
the tabernacle, these did the apriests and the
Levites bring up.
6 Also king Solomon, and all the congregation of Israel that were assembled unto him before the ark, sacrificed sheep and oxen, which could not be told nor numbered for multitude.
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7 And the priests brought in the ark of the
covenant of the LORD unto his place, to the aoracle of the
house, into the most holy place, even under the wings of the
cherubims:
8 For the acherubims spread
forth their wings over the place of the ark, and the cherubims covered
the ark and the staves thereof above.
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9 And they drew out the staves of the ark,
that the ends of the staves were seen from the ark before the oracle; but
they were not seen without. And there it is unto this
daya.
10 There was nothing in the ark save the two tables which Moses put therein at Horeb, when the LORD made a covenant with the children of Israel, when they came out of Egypt.
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9a And there it is unto this day
Many scholars have suggested that the Bible as we have it today was not
assembled until the Babylonian captivity and the days of Ezekiel. This does
not mean that all the books were necessarily not written until then. Here
it would indicate that this record of 2 Chronicles of the building of the
temple of Solomon was written well before the Babylonian dating, for the
ark of the covenant was still there in the temple as of the date of this
writing. That may indicate that both the record of the kings and the record
of the Chronicles were an on going work, being written concerning the kings
and the histories of the Jewish kings and related prophets as time pasted and
well before the Babylonian era.
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11 ¶ And it came to pass, when the priests were come out of the holy place: (for all the priests that were present were sanctified, and did not then wait by course:
12 Also the Levites which were the
singers, all of them of Asaph, of Heman, of Jeduthun, with their sons and
their brethren, being arrayed in white alinen,
having cymbals and bpsalteries and harps, stood at the east
end of the altar, and with them an hundred and twenty priests sounding with
trumpets:)
13 It came even to pass, as the trumpeters and
singers were as one, to make one sound to be heard in praising and
athanking the LORD; and when they lifted up their
voice with the trumpets and cymbals and instruments of musick, and praised
the LORD, saying, For he is good; for his mercy endureth
for ever: that then the house was filled with a cloud, even the
house of the LORD;
14 So that the priests could not stand to
minister by reason of the acloud: for the
bglory of the LORD had filled the house of God.
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