The Glory of God Fills the Temple

11 When the priests came out from the holy place (for all the priests who were present had sanctified themselves, without regard (A)to divisions), 12 and all the Levitical singers, (B)Asaph, Heman, Jeduthun, and their sons and kinsmen, clothed in fine linen, (C)with cymbals, harps, and lyres, standing east of the altar, and with them 120 priests (D)blowing trumpets 13 in unison when the trumpeters and the singers were to make themselves heard with one voice to praise and to glorify the Lord, and when they raised their voices (E)accompanied by trumpets, cymbals, and other musical instruments, and when they praised the Lord saying, “(F)He indeed is good for His [a]kindness is everlasting,” then the house, the house of the Lord, was filled with a cloud,

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Footnotes

  1. 2 Chronicles 5:13 Or faithfulness

11 The priests then withdrew from the Holy Place. All the priests who were there had consecrated themselves, regardless of their divisions.(A) 12 All the Levites who were musicians(B)—Asaph, Heman, Jeduthun and their sons and relatives—stood on the east side of the altar, dressed in fine linen and playing cymbals, harps and lyres. They were accompanied by 120 priests sounding trumpets.(C) 13 The trumpeters and musicians joined in unison to give praise and thanks to the Lord. Accompanied by trumpets, cymbals and other instruments, the singers raised their voices in praise to the Lord and sang:

“He is good;
    his love endures forever.”(D)

Then the temple of the Lord was filled with the cloud,(E)

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