2 Chronicles 5:13

_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;_ The house was filled with a cloud - (see the notes at 1 Kings 8:10.)...

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 5:13. _FOR_ HE IS _GOOD_] This was either the whole of the song, or the _burden_ of each verse. The Hebrew is very short: - כי טוב כי לעולם חסדו Ki tob, ki leolam chasdo. _For_ he is _good; for his mercy is endless_....

EVEN THE HOUSE OF THE LORD - Or, according to another reading (Septuagint), which removes the superfluousness of these words - “The house was filled with a cloud of the glory of the Lord.”...

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....

CLOUD See (2 Chronicles 5:11). (_ See Scofield) - (Exodus 40:34). _...

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...

FOR HE IS GOOD, &C. Compare Ezra 3:11. MERCY. lovingkindness, or grace. CLOUD, EVEN THE HOUSE OF. Septuagint reads "cloud of the glory of"....