_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._ Solomon brought in all the things that Davi... [ Continue Reading ]
_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._ Then Solomon assembled ...... [ Continue Reading ]
_WHEREFORE ALL THE MEN OF ISRAEL ASSEMBLED THEMSELVES UNTO THE KING IN THE FEAST WHICH WAS IN THE SEVENTH MONTH._ In the feast which was in the seventh month. The feast of the dedication of the temple was on the eighth day of that month. This is related word for word the same as in 1 Kings 8:1.... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND ALL THE ELDERS OF ISRAEL CAME; AND THE LEVITES TOOK UP THE ARK._ No JFB commentary on these verses.... [ Continue Reading ]
_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._ There it is unto this day - i:e., at the time when this history was composed; for after the Babylonian captivity there is n... [ Continue Reading ]
_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._ No JFB commentary on this verse.... [ Continue Reading ]
_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 t... [ Continue Reading ]
_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:)_... [ Continue Reading ]
_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 EVE... [ Continue Reading ]