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2 Chronicles 5:13 Explained in Context
Use this verse as a doorway into the larger passage—not as an isolated saying.
Verse 13. 13It 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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Quick Meaning
Joins instruments and voices in praise before the cloud fills the house.
Read It With
- 2 Chronicles 5:11–5:14
Joins instruments and voices in praise before the cloud fills the house. Read 2 Chronicles 5:13 within 5:11–5:14. The complete unit records: Sanctified priests, Levitical singers, instruments, and one hundred twenty trumpeters praise enduring mercy until a cloud fills the house and halts priestly service.
Why This Verse Appears Here
The divine glory interrupts the carefully organized human performance, keeping temple personnel from controlling the presence they celebrate. In this exact position, the line beginning “It came even to pass, as the trumpeters and singers were as one, to…” joins instruments and voices in praise before the cloud fills the house.
Follow the Context
- Sanctified priests, Levitical singers, instruments, and one hundred twenty trumpeters praise enduring mercy until a cloud fills the house and halts priestly service.
- The divine glory interrupts the carefully organized human performance, keeping temple personnel from controlling the presence they celebrate.
Phrase-by-Phrase Explanation
“It came even to pass, as the trumpeters and singers were as one, to…”
In plain language: Joins instruments and voices in praise before the cloud fills the house.
The line beginning “It came even to pass, as the trumpeters and singers were as one, to…” joins instruments and voices in praise before the cloud fills the house.
Why it matters: The wording carries a material literary, historical, temple, royal-power, violence, ethnic, illness, gender, exile, reception, or misuse boundary.
How certain? probableWhat This Verse Is Not Saying
Musical unity does not manufacture divine presence, prove every emotional service miraculous, or silence conscientious difference.
What Remains True
Joins instruments and voices in praise before the cloud fills the house. This concrete detail supports a bounded truth: Faithful memory tells the truth about worship and power together: it preserves covenant hope while naming labor, victims, institutional limits, human agency, and uncertainty.
How It Can Shape Life
- Because this verse joins instruments and voices in praise before the cloud fills the house, keep it inside 5:11–5:14, compare its Samuel-Kings relationship honestly, protect affected people from coercion or stigma, and apply only the accountable principle the complete unit supports.
Teach It Back
Explain why 2 Chronicles 5:13 joins instruments and voices in praise before the cloud fills the house. Use 5:11–5:14, paraphrase “It came even to pass, as the trumpeters and singers were as one, to…,” state one source or reconstruction limit, identify one person or group power can obscure, and reject one conclusion this verse does not authorize.
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Continue in Context
The full thought-unit study remains the final contextual authority for this Verse Lens.
Read 2 Chronicles 5:11–5:14 — Unified music precedes the filling cloudSources used for this Verse Lens
How certain is this explanation? probable
Where care is needed
2 Chronicles 5:13 remains within this thought-unit limit: The narrative interprets the cloud theologically; historical inquiry cannot reproduce its physical mechanism, and the numbers may serve ceremonial rhetoric.
These are the sources used directly for this lens. Language, grammar, disagreements, and the complete source shelf remain attached to the full thought-unit research record.
Biblical text
King James (Authorized) Version — eng-kjv2006
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Exact location: 2 Chronicles 5:11–5:14, pinned eng-kjv2006 USFM corpus
Open source ↗hebrew text and morphology
Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible: 2 Chronicles
Open Scriptures
Open Scriptures, release 2.2
Supports: Hebrew wording, morphology, names, clauses, regnal formulas, temple vocabulary, older-English controls, and translation limits.
Exact location: Open Scriptures MorphHB v.2.2, commit 6a5db284c715c18b239422e57bb89684e6a19f00, wlc/2Chr.xml, Masoretic words and morphology for 5:11–5:14
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NET Bible Full Notes: 2 Chronicles
Biblical Studies Press
Biblical Studies Press; STEP Bible presentation, 2019 edition; current web presentation
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Exact location: STEP Bible NET2full, 2 Chronicles 5:11–5:14, verse-attached translation and translator notes
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