it happened, when the trumpeters and singers were as one, to make one sound to be heard in praising and thanking Yahweh; and when they lifted up their voice with the trumpets and cymbals and instruments of music, and praised Yahweh, [saying], For he is good; for his lovingkindness endures forever; that then the house was filled with a cloud, even the house of Yahweh,
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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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