2Ch 5:11-14 | Clarke | STEP | Verse 11 When the priests were come out - After having carried the ark into the holy of holies, before the sacred service had commenced.

‏ 2 Chronicles 5:11-14

Verse 11

When the priests were come out - After having carried the ark into the holy of holies, before the sacred service had commenced. Verse 12

A hundred and twenty priests - Cymbals, psalteries, and harps, of any kind, in union with a hundred and twenty trumpets or horns, could not produce much harmony; as to melody, that must have been impossible, as the noise was too great. Verse 13

For he is good - This was either the whole of the song, or the burden of each verse. The Hebrew is very short: - כי טוב כי לעולם חסדו

Ki tob ki leolam chasdo.

For he is good; for his mercy is endless. Verse 14

The priests could not stand - What a proof of the being of God, and of the Divine presence! What must those holy men have felt at this time!