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 ever: that then the house was filled with a cloud, even the house of the LORD;
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Even the house of the Lord - Or, according to another reading from the Septuagint, which removes the superfluousness of these words, The…

It came even to pass ... thanking the Lord. — And the trumpeters and the minstrels were to sound aloud, as one man, with one s…

(See Gill on 2 Chronicles 5:1).

God took possession of the temple; he filled it with a cloud. In this way he signified his acceptance of this temple, to be the same to him as the …
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