5:2 Then Solomon assembled the elders of Israel, and all the
heads of the tribes, the chief of the fathers of the
children of Israel, unto Jerusalem, to bring up the ark of
the covenant of the LORD out of the a city of David, which
[is] Zion.
5:3 Wherefore all the men of Israel assembled themselves unto
the king in the b feast which [was] in the seventh c
month.
(b) When the things were dedicated and brought into the
temple.
(c) Called in Hebrew Ethanim, containing part of September
and part of October, (1Ki 8:2), which moves the Jews
called the first month, because they say that the world
was created in that month, and after they came from
Egypt, they began at March: but because this opinion is
uncertain, we always make March the first as the best
writers do.
5:10 [There was] nothing in the ark save d the two tables
which Moses put [therein] at Horeb, when the LORD made [a
covenant] with the children of Israel, when they came out
of Egypt.
(d) For Aaron's rod and manna were taken from there before
it was brought to this place.
5:11 And it came to pass, when the priests were come out of the
holy [place]: (for all the priests [that were] present were
e sanctified, [and] did not [then] wait by course:
(e) Were prepared to serve the Lord.
5:13 It came even to pass, as the trumpeters and singers [were]
f 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], g 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;
(f) They all played the same tune.
(g) This was the effect of their songs,
(Ps 118:1,136:1).
