2 Chronicles 5
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c Thus all the work that Solomon did for the house of the Lord was finished. And Solomon brought in the things that David his father had dedicated, and stored the silver, the gold, and all the vessels in the treasuries of the house of God.
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Then Solomon assembled the elders of Israel and all the heads of the tribes, the leaders of the fathers' houses of the people of Israel, in Jerusalem, to bring up the ark of the covenant of the Lord out of d the city of David, which is Zion.
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And all the men of Israel assembled before the king at the feast that is in the seventh month.
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And all the elders of Israel came, e and the Levites took up the ark.
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And they brought up the ark, the tent of meeting, and all the holy vessels that were in the tent; f the Levitical priests brought them up.
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And King Solomon and all the congregation of Israel, who had assembled before him, were before the ark, sacrificing so many sheep and oxen that they could not be counted or numbered.
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Then the priests brought the ark of the covenant of the Lord to its place, in the inner sanctuary of the house, in the Most Holy Place, underneath the wings of the cherubim.
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The cherubim spread out their wings over the place of the ark, so that the cherubim made a covering above the ark and its poles.
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And the poles were so long that the ends of the poles were seen g from the Holy Place before the inner sanctuary, but they could not be seen from outside. And they are there to this day.
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There was nothing in the ark except the two tablets h that Moses put there at Horeb, where the Lord made a covenant with the people of Israel, when they came out of Egypt.
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And when the priests came out of the Holy Place (for all the priests who were present had consecrated themselves, without regard to i their divisions,
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and all the Levitical j singers, k Asaph, l Heman, and Jeduthun, their sons and kinsmen, arrayed in fine linen, with m cymbals, harps, and lyres, stood east of the altar with 120 n priests who were trumpeters;
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and it was the duty of the trumpeters and singers to make themselves heard in unison in praise and thanksgiving to the Lord), and when the song was raised, o with trumpets and cymbals and other musical instruments, in praise to the Lord,
p "For he is good,
for his steadfast love endures forever,"
the house, the house of the Lord, was filled with a cloud,
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so that the priests could not stand to minister because of the cloud, q for the glory of the Lord filled the house of God.
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Cross References
2 Chronicles 5:1 - 10
Thus all the work that Solomon did for the house of the Lord was finished. And Solomon brought in the things that David his father had dedicated, and stored the silver, the gold, and all the vessels in the treasuries of the house of God.
1 Kings 7:51 - 8:9
Thus all the work that King Solomon did on the house of the Lord was finished. And Solomon brought in the things that David his father had dedicated, the silver, the gold, and the vessels, and stored them in the treasuries of the house of the Lord.
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Cross References
2 Samuel 6:12
And it was told King David, "The Lord has blessed the household of Obed-edom and all that belongs to him, because of the ark of God." So David went and brought up the ark of God from the house of Obed-edom to the city of David with rejoicing.
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2 Chronicles 5:7
Then the priests brought the ark of the covenant of the Lord to its place, in the inner sanctuary of the house, in the Most Holy Place, underneath the wings of the cherubim.
1 Kings 8:3
And all the elders of Israel came, and the priests took up the ark.
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2 Chronicles 23:18
And Jehoiada posted watchmen for the house of the Lord under the direction of the Levitical priests and the Levites whom David had organized to be in charge of the house of the Lord, to offer burnt offerings to the Lord, as it is written in the Law of Moses, with rejoicing and with singing, according to the order of David.
2 Chronicles 30:27
Then the priests and the Levites arose and blessed the people, and their voice was heard, and their prayer came to his holy habitation in heaven.
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1 Kings 8:8
And the poles were so long that the ends of the poles were seen from the Holy Place before the inner sanctuary; but they could not be seen from outside. And they are there to this day.
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Deuteronomy 10:2
And I will write on the tablets the words that were on the first tablets that you broke, and you shall put them in the ark.
Deuteronomy 10:5
Then I turned and came down from the mountain and put the tablets in the ark that I had made. And there they are, as the Lord commanded me.
2 Chronicles 6:11
And there I have set the ark, in which is the covenant of the Lord that he made with the people of Israel.
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1 Chronicles 24:1
The divisions of the sons of Aaron were these. The sons of Aaron: Nadab, Abihu, Eleazar, and Ithamar.
1 Chronicles 24:5
They divided them by lot, all alike, for there were sacred officers and officers of God among both the sons of Eleazar and the sons of Ithamar.
Luke 1:5
In the days of Herod, king of Judea, there was a priest named Zechariah, of the division of Abijah. And he had a wife from the daughters of Aaron, and her name was Elizabeth.
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1 Chronicles 25:1 - 4
David and the chiefs of the service also set apart for the service the sons of Asaph, and of Heman, and of Jeduthun, who prophesied with lyres, with harps, and with cymbals. The list of those who did the work and of their duties was:
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1 Chronicles 6:39
And his brother Asaph, who stood on his right hand, namely, Asaph the son of Berechiah, son of Shimea.
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1 Chronicles 6:33
These are the men who served and their sons. Of the sons of the Kohathites: Heman the singer the son of Joel, son of Samuel.
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1 Chronicles 15:16
David also commanded the chiefs of the Levites to appoint their brothers as the singers who should play loudly on musical instruments, on harps and lyres and cymbals, to raise sounds of joy.
Psalms 150:3 - 5
Praise him with trumpet sound; praise him with lute and harp!
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2 Chronicles 7:6
The priests stood at their posts; the Levites also, with the instruments for music to the Lord that King David had made for giving thanks to the Lord - for his steadfast love endures forever - whenever David offered praises by their ministry; opposite them the priests sounded trumpets, and all Israel stood.
1 Chronicles 15:24
Shebaniah, Joshaphat, Nethanel, Amasai, Zechariah, Benaiah, and Eliezer, the priests, should blow the trumpets before the ark of God. Obed-edom and Jehiah were to be gatekeepers for the ark.
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1 Chronicles 16:42
Heman and Jeduthun had trumpets and cymbals for the music and instruments for sacred song. The sons of Jeduthun were appointed to the gate.
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1 Chronicles 16:34
Oh give thanks to the Lord, for he is good; for his steadfast love endures forever!
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2 Chronicles 7:2
And the priests could not enter the house of the Lord, because the glory of the Lord filled the Lord 's house.
1 Kings 8:11
So that the priests could not stand to minister because of the cloud, for the glory of the Lord filled the house of the Lord.
Exodus 40:35
And Moses was not able to enter the tent of meeting because the cloud settled on it, and the glory of the Lord filled the tabernacle.
Ezekiel 10:3 - 4
Now the cherubim were standing on the south side of the house, when the man went in, and a cloud filled the inner court.
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