2 Chronicles 5:11

_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:_ All the priests ... present ... did not then wait by course. The rotation system of weekly service introduced by David was intended for the ordinary duties of the priesthood; on extraordinary occasions, or when more than wonted solemnity attached to them, the priests attended in a body....

11-14 God took possession of the temple; he filled it with a cloud. Thus he signified his acceptance of this temple, to be the same to him that the tabernacle of Moses was, and assured his people that he would be the same in it. Would we have God dwell in our hearts, we must leave room for him; every thing else must give way. The Word was made flesh; and when he comes to his temple, like a refiner's fire, who may abide the day of his coming? May he prepare us for that day....

Verse 2 Chronicles 5:11. _WHEN THE PRIESTS WERE COME OUT_] After having carried the ark into the holy of holies, before the sacred service had commenced....

EXPOSITION The first verse of this chapter would have stood more fitly as the last verse of the previous chapter. The narrative, that began with the preparations for building the temple (2 Chronicles 1:1- 2 Chronicles 2:18), and proceeded to the account of the building itself, and the making of the various needed vessels (2 Chronicles 3:1), now goes on to recall and recount the dedication (2 Chronicles 5:2), enriching the parallel (1 Kings 7:51;...

2 Chronicles 5:1....

3. THE DEDICATION OF THE TEMPLE CHAPTER 5 The Ark Brought in the Temple _ 1. The completion of the temple (2 Chronicles 5:1)_ 2. The assembly called by Solomon (2 Chronicles 5:2) 3. The ark carried to its place (2 Chronicles 5:4) 4. The contents of the ark (2 Chronicles 5:10) 5. The praise and the glory (2 Chronicles 5:11) The reader will find the comments on the dedication of the temple in the book of Kings ...

2 Chronicles 5:2 to 2 Chronicles 7:10. THE DEDICATION OF THE TEMPLE (see notes on 1 Kings 8). The chief points of difference between the Chronicler's account and 1 Kings 8 are: (_a_) that in 2 Chronicles 5:4 the Levites are the bearers of the Ark (_cf._ 1 Chronicles 15:2; 1 Chronicles 15:26 f.) instead of the priests as in 1 Kings 8:3; (_b_) that in...

ALL. On this occasion all served; not "by course". Note the parenthesis in verses: 2 Chronicles 5:11. WERE SANCTIFIED. had sanctified themselves....

FOR ALL THE PRIESTS THAT WERE PRESENT WERE SANCTIFIED, &C.— _For all the priests then present had purified themselves, nor did any one wait for his course:_ that is, being all desirous of ministering at this solemn assembly, they did not observe the particular turn or course of waiting which was appointed for them. Houbigant. REFLECTIONS.—1st, This solemnity we met with 1 Kings 8:2. The treasures that his father had dedicated, besides what were used in the building, or for the vessels, Solomon laid up in the temple for any future occasion. The pious and charitable bequests of our parents we must carefully discharge. The ark he brought up with great ceremony, at a general convention assembled for that purpose, with all the appurtenances belonging to it, and placed it under the cherubims in the most holy place; where it continued to the day when the records were written when

4. DEDICATION OF THE TEMPLE (2 Chronicles 5:2 to 2 Chronicles 7:22) TEXT 2 Chronicles 5:2. Thus all the work that Solomon wrought for the house of Jehovah was finished. And Solomon brought in the things that David his father had dedicated, even the silver, and the gold, and all the vessels, and put them in the treasuries of the house of God. 2. Then Solomon assembled the elders of Israel, and all the heads of the tribes, the princes of the fathers-' houses of the children of Israel, unto Jerusalem, to bring up the ark of the covenant of Jehovah out of the city of David, which is Zion. 3. And all the men of Israel assembled themselves unto the king at the feast, which was in the sevent