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, with trumpets and cymbals and other musical instruments, in praise to the LORD, "For he is good, for his steadfast love endures for ever," the house, the house of the LORD, was filled with a cloud,
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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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