2 Chronicles 5:5

3 ^aTherefore all the men of Israel assembled with the king ^bat the feast, which was in the seventh month.

4 So all the elders of Israel came, and the ^aLevites took up the ark.

5 Then they brought up the ark, the tabernacle of meeting, and all the holy furnishings that were in the tabernacle. The priests and the Levites brought them up.

6 Also King Solomon, and all the congregation of Israel who were assembled with him before the ark, were sacrificing sheep and oxen that could not be counted or numbered for multitude.

7 Then the priests brought in the ark of the covenant of the Lord to its place, into the ^ainner sanctuary of the temple, to the Most Holy Place, under the wings of the cherubim.

8 For the cherubim spread their wings over the place of the ark, and the cherubim overshadowed the ark and its poles.

9 The poles extended so that the ends of the ^apoles of the ark could be seen from the holy place, in front of the inner sanctuary; but they could not be seen from outside. And¹ they are there to this day.

10 Nothing was in the ark except the two tablets which Moses ^aput there at Horeb, when the Lord made a covenant with the children of Israel, when they had come out of Egypt.

Commentaries:

Matthew Henry

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2 Chronicles 5:1-14

The ark placed in the temple. (1-10) The temple filled with glory. (11-14)

Verses 1-10 The ark was a type of Christ, and, as such, a token of the presence of God. That gracious promise, Lo, I am with you alway, even unto the end of the world, does, in effect, bring the ark into our religious assemblies, if we by faith and prayer plead that promise; and this we should be most earnest for. When Christ is formed in a soul, the law written in the heart, the ark of the covenant settled there, so that it becomes the temple of the Holy Ghost, there is true satisfaction in that soul.

Verses 11-14 God took possession of the temple; he filled it with a cloud. Thus he signified his acceptance of this temple, to be the same to him that the tabernacle of Moses was, and assured his people that he would be the same in it. Would we have God dwell in our hearts, we must leave room for him; every thing else must give way. The Word was made flesh; and when he comes to his temple, like a refiner's fire, who may abide the day of his coming? May he prepare us for that day.

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