2 Chronicles 5 :: Legacy Standard Bible (LSB)

The Ark Brought into the House of Yahweh

Thus all^H3605 the work^H4399 that Solomon^H8010 did^H6213 for the house^H1004 of Yahweh^H3068 was finished^H7999. And Solomon^H8010 brought^H935 in^H935 the [fn]things set^H6944 apart^H6944 as^H6944 holy^H6944 by his father^H1 David^H1732, even the silver^H3701 and the gold^H2091 and all^H3605 the utensils^H3627, and he put^H5414 them in the treasuries^H214 of the house^H1004 of God^H430.

(1Ki 8:1–13 )

2Ch 5:2

Then^H227 Solomon^H8010 assembled^H6950 the elders^H2205 of Israel^H3478 and all^H3605 the heads^H7218 of the tribes^H4294, the leaders^H5387 of the fathers’^H1 households of the sons^H1121 of Israel^H3478 to Jerusalem^H3389, to bring^H5927 up^H5927 the ark^H727 of the covenant^H1285 of Yahweh^H3068 from the city^H5892 of David^H1732, which^H1931 is Zion^H6726.

2Ch 5:3

2Ch 5:3And all the men of Israel assembled themselves to the king at the feast, that is in the seventh month.

2Ch 5:4

2Ch 5:4Then all the elders of Israel came, and the Levites carried the ark.

2Ch 5:5

2Ch 5:5And they brought up the ark and the tent of meeting and all the holy utensils which were in the tent; the Levitical priests brought them up.

2Ch 5:6

2Ch 5:6And King Solomon and all the congregation of Israel who congregated with him before the ark, were sacrificing [fn]so many sheep and oxen that they could not be counted or numbered.

2Ch 5:7

2Ch 5:7Then the priests brought the ark of the covenant of Yahweh to its place, into the inner sanctuary of the house, to the Holy of Holies, under the wings of the cherubim.

2Ch 5:8

2Ch 5:8And the cherubim spread their wings over the place of the ark, and the cherubim made a covering over the ark and its poles from above.

2Ch 5:9

2Ch 5:9But the poles were so long that the ends of the poles of the ark could be seen before the inner sanctuary, but they could not be seen outside; and [fn]they are there to this day.

2Ch 5:10

2Ch 5:10There was nothing in the ark except the two tablets which Moses put there at Horeb, where Yahweh cut a covenant with the sons of Israel, when they came out of Egypt.

The Glory of Yahweh Fills His House

2Ch 5:11

Now it happened that when the priests^H3548 came^H3318 out^H3318 of the holy^H6944 place (for all^H3605 the priests^H3548 who were^H4672 present^H4672 had sanctified^H6942 themselves, without^H369 regard^H8104 to divisions^H4256),

2Ch 5:12

2Ch 5:12and all the Levitical singers, Asaph, Heman, Jeduthun, and their sons and relatives, clothed in fine linen, with cymbals, harps, and lyres, standing east of the altar, and with them 120 priests blowing trumpets

2Ch 5:13

2Ch 5:13in unison when the trumpeters and the singers were to make themselves heard with one voice to praise and to give thanks to Yahweh, and when they lifted up their voice accompanied by trumpets and cymbals and instruments of music, and when they praised Yahweh saying, “He indeed is good for His lovingkindness endures forever,” then the house, the house of Yahweh, was filled with a cloud,

2Ch 5:14