2 Chronicles 5

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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.

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So all the men of Israel came together to the king at the feast in the seventh month.

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When all the elders of Israel had arrived, the Levites took up the ark,

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and they brought up the ark and the Tent of Meeting with all its sacred furnishings. The Levitical priests carried them up.

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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.

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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.

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For the cherubim spread their wings over the place of the ark and overshadowed the ark and its poles.

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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.

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they drew As the ark was no longer to be carried about , the staves were unnecessary.

unto this day That is , the day when these events were recorded; not the day when these extracts were made , after the captivity , and consequently , long after the destruction of the temple.

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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.

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There was nothing In the parallel passage in the Epistle to the Hebrews , it is expressly stated that in the ark were "the golden pot that had manna , and Aaron's rod that budded , and the tables of the covenant;" but it is evident that the apostle speaks there of the tabernacle erected by Moses , and of the state and contents of that tabernacle in the time of Moses; and in the temple there were several things added , and several left out.

when or , where

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Now all the priests who were present had consecrated themselves regardless of their divisions. And when the priests came out of the Holy Place,

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present Heb. found

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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.

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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

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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.

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