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2 Chronicles 5:11 Explained in Context
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Verse 11. 11And it came to pass, when the priests were come out of the holy place: (for all the priests that were present were sanctified, and did not then wait by course:
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Role in This Section
This verse opens the thought unit and establishes its first action or speech: “And it came to pass, when the priests were come out of the holy place: (for all the….” Its responsible meaning belongs to the complete movement “Unified music precedes the filling cloud.”
Read It With
- 2 Chronicles 5:11–14
Read 2 Chronicles 5:11 with 5:11–14. The selected wording supplies one opening in the thought unit and establishes its first action or speech; the surrounding verses supply the causes, responses, and outcome summarized here: Sanctified priests, Levitical singers, instruments, and one hundred twenty trumpeters praise enduring mercy until a cloud fills the house and halts priestly service.
Why It Needs Context
2 Chronicles 5:11 depends on 5:11–14; isolating “And it came to pass, when the priests were come out of the holy place: (for all the…” would detach a supporting action, quotation, name, number, object, or transition from “Unified music precedes the filling cloud.”
Read 2 Chronicles 5:11–14 together
Why these verses belong together: 2 Chronicles 5:11–14 forms the complete movement “Unified music precedes the filling cloud”: Sanctified priests, Levitical singers, instruments, and one hundred twenty trumpeters praise enduring mercy until a cloud fills the house and halts priestly service.
Verse 11. 11 And it came to pass, when the priests were come out of the holy place: (for all the priests that were present were sanctified, and did not then wait by course:
Verse 12. 12 Also the Levites which were the singers, all of them of Asaph, of Heman, of Jeduthun, with their sons and their brethren, being arrayed in white linen, having cymbals and psalteries and harps, stood at the east end of the altar, and with them an hundred and twenty priests sounding with trumpets:)
Verse 13. 13 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;
Verse 14. 14 So that the priests could not stand to minister by reason of the cloud: for the glory of the LORD had filled the house of God.
Continue in Context
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Biblical text
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Exact location: 2 Chronicles 5:11–14, pinned eng-kjv2006 USFM corpus
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