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11 When the priests emerged from the Holy Place—for all the priests who were present had sanctified themselves without regard to their divisions— 12 all the Levitical singers, Asaph, Heman, and Jeduthun, with their sons and brothers, dressed themselves in fine linen, with cymbals, lyres, and harps. They were standing to the east of the altar with one hundred and twenty priests, blowing the trumpets.

13 The trumpeters and the singers joined in unison to offer praise and thanksgiving to the Lord, and when the volume was raised, with trumpets and cymbals and other musical instruments, in praise of the Lord:

“For he is good,
    for his steadfast love endures forever,”[a]

the temple was filled with the cloud of the glory of the Lord,

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Footnotes

  1. 2 Chronicles 5:13 His steadfast love endures forever: the refrain of Pss 118; 136.