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2 Chronicles 5

About 2 Chronicles 2 Chronicles retells the history of Judah's kings from Solomon to the exile, with a focus on the temple.

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.Selected2 Chronicles 5:1Ask

Then Solomon assembled the elders 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 ark of the covenant of the LORD out of the city of David, which is Zion.Selected2 Chronicles 5:2Ask

Wherefore all the men of Israel assembled themselves unto the king in the feast which was in the seventh month.Selected2 Chronicles 5:3Ask

And all the elders of Israel came; and the Levites took up the ark.Selected2 Chronicles 5:4Ask

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 priests and the Levites bring up.Selected2 Chronicles 5:5Ask

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.Selected2 Chronicles 5:6Ask

And the priests brought in the ark of the covenant of the LORD unto his place, to the oracle of the house, into the most holy place, even under the wings of the cherubims:Selected2 Chronicles 5:7Ask

For the cherubims spread forth their wings over the place of the ark, and the cherubims covered the ark and the staves thereof above.Selected2 Chronicles 5:8Ask

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 day.Selected2 Chronicles 5:9Ask

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.Selected2 Chronicles 5:10Ask

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:Selected2 Chronicles 5:11Ask

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 linen, having cymbals and psalteries and harps, stood at the east end of the altar, and with them an hundred and twenty priests sounding with trumpets:)Selected2 Chronicles 5:12Ask

It came even to pass, as the trumpeters and singers were as one, to make one sound to be heard in praising and thanking 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;Selected2 Chronicles 5:13Ask

So that the priests could not stand to minister by reason of the cloud: for the glory of the LORD had filled the house of God.Selected2 Chronicles 5:14Ask

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