2 Crônicas 5:13

It came even to pass... thanking the Lord. — And the trumpeters and the minstrels were to sound aloud, as one man, with one sound, in order to praise and thank the Lord. This ends the parenthesis-

Their voice with the trumpets. — Rather, A sound with trumpets, &c.

And praised the Lord, saying, For he is good. — For this common liturgical formula see 1 Crônicas 16:34; 1 Crônicas 16:41.

That then the house was filled with a cloud, even the house of the Lord. — Omit that (1 Reis 8:10). “Then the cloud filled the house of the Lord.” The LXX. reads, “with the cloud of the glory of the Lord; “the Vulg. simply, “so that the house of God was filled with a cloud.” (The Syriac and Arabic omit 2 Crônicas 5:12.) The unpointed Heb. text might be rendered, “the house was filled with the cloud of the house of the Lord;” but the Authorised Version is preferable; the phrase, “the house of the Lord,” being added as a sort of climax. (Comp. 2 Crônicas 4:21, ad fin.) So Reuss, “Le temple se remplit d’une nuée, le temple de l’ Eternel.” The emphatic word is Jehovah, of whose presence the bright cloud was the standing token.