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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)