{"collection":"Bible & Christianity","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/bib/cmt/kad/ch2005.htm","path":"bib/cmt/kad/ch2005.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/bib/cmt/kad/ch2005.htm","text":"Biblical Commentary on the Old Testament, by Carl Friedrich Keil and Franz Delitzsh, [1857-78]\nCh2 5:1 contains the conclusion of the account of the preparation of the sacred utensils as in Kg1 7:51, and with it also the whole account of the building of the temple is brought to an end. The \u05d5 before \u05d0\u05ea\u05be\u05d4\u05db\u05bc\u05e1\u05e3 and \u05d0\u05ea\u05be\u05d4\u05d6\u05bc\u05d4\u05d1 corresponds to the Lat. et - et, both - and also. As to David's offerings, cf. Ch1 18:10 and Ch1 18:11; and on the whole matter, compare also the remarks on Kg1 7:51.\nThe first part of the celebration was the transfer of the ark from Mount Zion to the temple (Ch2 5:2-14), and in connection with this we have the words in which Solomon celebrates the entry of the Lord into the new temple (Ch2 6:1-11). This section has been already commented on in the remarks on 1 Kings 8:1-21, and we have here, consequently, only to set down briefly those discrepancies between our account and that other, which have any influence upon the meaning. - In Ch2 5:3 the name of the month, \u05d4\u05d0\u05ea\u05e0\u05d9\u05dd \u05d1\u05bc\u05d9\u05e8\u05d7 (Kg1 8:2), with which the supplementary clause, \"that is the seventh month,\" is there connected, is omitted, so that we must either change \u05d4\u05d7\u05d3\u05e9\u05c1 into \u05d1\u05bc\u05d7\u05e8\u05e9\u05c1, or supply the name of the month; for the festival is not the seventh month, but was held in that month.\nInstead of \u05d4\u05dc\u05d5\u05d9\u05bc\u05dd, we have in 2 Kings \u05d4\u05db\u05bc\u05d4\u05e0\u05d9\u05dd, the priests bare the ark; and since even according to the Chronicle (Ch2 5:7) the priests bare the ark into the holy place, we must understand by \u05d4\u05dc\u05d5\u05d9\u05bc\u05dd such Levites were also priests. - In Ch2 5:5, too the words \u05d4\u05dc\u05d5\u05d9\u05bc\u05dd \u05d4\u05db\u05bc\u05d4\u05e0\u05d9\u05dd are inexact, and are to be corrected by Kg1 8:4, \u05d5\u05d4\u05dc\u05d5\u05d9\u05bc\u05dd \u05d4\u05db\u05bc\u05d4\u05e0\u05d9\u05dd. For even if the Levitic priests bare the ark and the sacred utensils of the tabernacle into the temple, yet the tabernacle itself (the planks, hangings, and coverings of it) was borne into the temple, to be preserved as a holy relic, not by priests, but only by Levites. The conj. \u05d5 before \u05d4\u05dc\u05d5\u05d9\u05dd has probably been omitted only by a copyist, who was thinking of \u05d4\u05dc\u05d5\u05d9\u05dd \u05d4\u05db\u05d4\u05e0\u05d9\u05dd (Jos 3:3; Deu 17:9, Deu 17:18, etc.). - In Ch2 5:8 \u05d5\u05d9\u05db\u05e1\u05bc\u05d5\u05bc is an orthographical error for \u05d5\u05d9\u05bc\u05e1\u05db\u05bc\u05d5\u05bc, Kg1 8:7; cf. Ch1 28:18; Exo 25:20. - In Ch2 5:9, too, \u05de\u05df\u05be\u05d4\u05d0\u05e8\u05d5\u05df has probably come into our text only by a copyist's mistake instead of \u05de\u05df\u05be\u05d4\u05e7\u05bc\u05d3\u05e9\u05c1 (Kg1 8:8).\n\u05e0\u05ea\u05df \u05d0\u05e9\u05c1\u05e8, who had given, i.e., laid in, is not so exact as \u05e9\u05c1\u05dd \u05d4\u05e0\u05bc\u05d9\u05d7 \u05d0\u05e9\u05c1\u05e8 (Kg1 8:9), but may be justified by a reference to Exo 40:20.\nCh2 5:11-13 describe the part which the priests and Levitical singers and musicians took in the solemn act of transferring the ark to the temple-a matter entirely passed over in the narrative in Kg1 8:11, which confines itself to the main transaction. The mention of the priests gives occasion for the remark, Ch2 5:11, \"for all the priests present had sanctified themselves, but the courses were not to be observed,\" i.e., the courses of the priests (1 Chron 24) could not be observed. The festival was so great, that not merely the course appointed to perform the service of that week, but also all the courses had sanctified themselves and co-operated in the celebration. In reference to the construction \u05dc\u05e9\u05c1\u05de\u05d5\u05e8 \u05d0\u05d9\u05df, cf. Ew. 321, b.\nAll the Levitic singers and musicians were also engaged in it, to make the festival glorious by song and instrumental music: \"and the Levites, the singers, all of them, Asaph, Heman, and Jeduthun, and their sons and brethren, clad in byssus, with cymbals, psalteries, and harps, stood eastward from the altar, and with them priests to 120, blowing trumpets.\" The \u05dc before \u05db\u05bc\u05dc\u05bc\u05dd and the following noun is the introductory \u05dc: \"as regards.\" On the form \u05de\u05d7\u05e6\u05e8\u05e8\u05d9\u05dd, see on Ch1 15:24; on these singers and musicians, their clothing, and their instruments, see on Ch1 15:17-28 and Ch2 25:1-8.\nCh2 5:13 runs thus literally: \"And it came to pass, as one, regarding the trumpeters and the singers, that they sang with one voice to praise and thank Jahve.\" The meaning is: and the trumpeters and singers, together as one man, sang with one voice to praise. \u05db\u05bc\u05d0\u05d7\u05d3 is placed first for emphasis; stress is laid upon the subject, the trumpeters and singers, by the introductory \u05dc; and \u05d4\u05d9\u05d4 is construed with the following infinitive (\u05dc\u05d4\u05e9\u05c1\u05de\u05d9\u05e2): it was to sound, to cause to hear, for they were causing to hear, where \u05dc c. infin. is connected with \u05d4\u05d9\u05d4, as the participle is elsewhere, to describe the circumstances; cf. Ew. 237. But in order to express very strongly the idea of the unisono of the trumpet-sound, and the singing accompanied by the harp-playing, which lies in \u05db\u05bc\u05d0\u05d7\u05d3, \u05d0\u05d7\u05d3 \u05e7\u05d5\u05dc is added to \u05dc\u05d4\u05e9\u05c1\u05de\u05d9\u05e2. By \u05d5\u05d2\u05d5 \u05e7\u05d5\u05dc \u05d5\u05bc\u05db\u05d4\u05e8\u05d9\u05dd all that was to be said of the song and music is drawn together in the form of a protasis, to which is joined \u05de\u05dc\u05d0 \u05d5\u05d4\u05d1\u05bc\u05d9\u05ea, the apodosis both of this latter and also of the protasis which was interrupted by the parenthesis in Ch2 5:11 : \"When the priests went forth from the holy place, for...(Ch2 5:11), and when they lifted up the voice with trumpets and with cymbals, and the (other) instruments of song, and with the praise of Jahve, that He is good, that His mercy endureth for ever (cf. Ch1 16:34), then was the house filled with the cloud of the house of Jahve.\" The absence of the article before \u05e2\u05e0\u05df requires us thus to connect the \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 \u05d1\u05bc\u05d9\u05ea at the close of the verse with \u05e2\u05e0\u05df (stat. constr.), since the indefinite \u05e2\u05e0\u05df (without the article) is not at all suitable here; for it is not any cloud which is here spoken of, but that which overshadowed the glory of the Lord in the most holy place.\nCh2 5:14, again, agrees with Kg1 8:6, and has been there commented upon.","title":"Biblical Commentary on the Old Testament by Carl Friedrich Keil and Franz Delitzsch: 2 Chronicles: 2 Chronicles Chapter 5","type":"page"}