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2
Chronicles Chapter Five
New King James Version (NKJV)
INTRODUCTION TO 2 CHRONICLES 5 & 6
The
words with which chapter five begins are the same with 1 Kings 7:51 and
what is contained in that and chapter six is much the same with 1 Kings 8:1 on
which see the notes; the blessing of Solomon on the people of Israel, which is
there, is here omitted, and two verses are here added, much the same with Psalm 132:8.
2 Chronicles
5:1 So all the work
that Solomon had done for the house of the Lord was finished;
and Solomon brought in the things which his father David had dedicated: the
silver and the gold and all the furnishings. And he put them in the
treasuries of the house of God.
YLT
1And all the work that
Solomon made for the house of Jehovah is finished, and Solomon bringeth in the
sanctified things of David his father, and the silver, and the gold, and all
the vessels he hath put among the treasures of the house of God.
Verses 1-14
See
Chapter Introduction
2 Chronicles 5:2 2 Now Solomon assembled the
elders of Israel and all the heads of the tribes, the chief fathers of the
children of Israel, in Jerusalem, that they might bring the ark of the covenant
of the Lord
up from the City of David, which is Zion.
YLT
2Then doth Solomon assemble
the elders of Israel, and all the heads of the tribes, princes of the fathers
of the sons of Israel, unto Jerusalem, to bring up the ark of the covenant of
Jehovah from the city of David -- it [is] Zion.
2 Chronicles 5:3 3 Therefore all the men of
Israel assembled with the king at the feast, which was in the seventh
month.
YLT
3And assembled unto the king
are all the men of Israel in the feast -- it [is] the seventh month;
2 Chronicles 5:4 4 So all the elders of
Israel came, and the Levites took up the ark.
YLT
4and all the elders of
Israel come in, and the Levites lift up the ark,
2 Chronicles 5:5 5 Then they brought up the
ark, the tabernacle of meeting, and all the holy furnishings that were
in the tabernacle. The priests and the Levites brought them up.
YLT
5and they bring up the ark,
and the tent of meeting, and all the vessels of the sanctuary that [are] in the
tent; brought them up have the priests, the Levites;
2 Chronicles 5:6 6 Also King Solomon, and all
the congregation of Israel who were assembled with him before the ark, were
sacrificing sheep and oxen that could not be counted or numbered for multitude.
YLT
6and king Solomon and all
the company of Israel who are convened unto him before the ark are sacrificing
sheep and oxen, that are not counted nor numbered from multitude.
2 Chronicles 5:7 7 Then the priests brought
in the ark of the covenant of the Lord to its place, into the
inner sanctuary of the temple,[a] to the
Most Holy Place, under the wings of the cherubim.
YLT
7And the priests bring in
the ark of the covenant of Jehovah unto its place, unto the oracle of the
house, unto the holy of holies, unto the place of the wings of the cherubs;
2 Chronicles 5:8 8 For the cherubim spread their
wings over the place of the ark, and the cherubim overshadowed the ark and its
poles.
YLT
8and the cherubs are
spreading out wings over the place of the ark, and the cherubs cover over the
ark, and over its staves, from above;
2 Chronicles 5:9 9 The poles extended so that
the ends of the poles of the ark could be seen from the holy place, in
front of the inner sanctuary; but they could not be seen from outside. And they
are there to this day.
YLT
9and they lengthen the
staves, and the heads of the staves are seen out of the ark on the front of the
oracle, and they are not seen without; and it is there unto this day.
2 Chronicles 5:10 10 Nothing was in the ark
except the two tablets which Moses put there at Horeb, when the Lord made a
covenant with the children of Israel, when they had come out of Egypt.
YLT
10There is nothing in the ark
but the two tables that Moses gave in Horeb, where Jehovah covenanted with the
sons of Israel, in their going out from Egypt.
2 Chronicles 5:11 11 And it came to pass when
the priests came out of the Most Holy Place (for all the priests
who were present had sanctified themselves, without keeping to their
divisions),
YLT
11And it cometh to pass, in
the going out of the priests from the sanctuary -- for all the priests who are
present have sanctified themselves, there is none to watch by courses,
2 Chronicles 5:12 12 and the Levites who
were the singers, all those of Asaph and Heman and Jeduthun, with their
sons and their brethren, stood at the east end of the altar, clothed in white
linen, having cymbals, stringed instruments and harps, and with them one
hundred and twenty priests sounding with trumpets—
YLT
12and the Levites, the
singers, to all of them, to Asaph, to Heman, to Jeduthun, and to their sons,
and to their brethren, clothed in white linen, with cymbals, and with
psalteries, and harps, are standing on the east of the altar, and with them
priests, to a hundred and twenty, blowing with trumpets –
2 Chronicles 5:13 13 indeed it came to pass,
when 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 music, and praised
the Lord,
saying: “For He is good, For His mercy endures forever,”[b] that the
house, the house of the Lord,
was filled with a cloud,
YLT
13yea, it cometh to pass, as
one [are] trumpeters and singers, to sound -- one voice -- to praise and to
give thanks to Jehovah, and at the lifting up of the sound with trumpets, and
with cymbals, and with instruments of song, and at giving praise to Jehovah,
for good, for to the age [is] His kindness, that the house is filled with a
cloud -- the house of Jehovah,
2 Chronicles 5:14 14 so that the priests could
not continue ministering because of the cloud; for the glory of the Lord filled the
house of God.
YLT
14and the priests have not
been able to stand to minister from the presence of the cloud, for the honour
of Jehovah hath filled the house of God.
──《John Gill’s
Exposition of the Bible》
New King James
Version (NKJV)