II Chronicles · Chapter 5 King James Version

II Chronicles 5:13

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The Scripture

(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;
Chapter overview (whole chapter)

Solomon assembled the elders and leaders of Israel to bring the ark of the covenant from the city of David into the newly finished temple, where the priests placed it beneath the wings of the cherubim. When the priests came out of the holy place, the glory of the LORD filled the house as a cloud, so that they could not continue to minister because of it.

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