5:13. So when they all sounded together, both with trumpets, and voice,
and cymbals, and organs, and with divers kind of musical instruments,
and lifted up their voice on high: the sound was heard afar off, so that
when they began to praise the Lord, and to say: Give glory to the Lord
for he is good, for his mercy endureth for ever: the house of God was
filled with a cloud.
5:14. Nor could the priests stand and minister by reason of the cloud.
For the glory of the Lord had filled the house of God.
2 Paralipomenon Chapter 6
Solomon's blessings and prayer.
6:1. Then Solomon said: The Lord promised that he would dwell in a
cloud.
6:2. But I have built a house to his name, that he might dwell there for
ever.
6:3. And the king turned his face, and blessed all the multitude of
Israel for all the multitude stood attentive and he said:
6:4. Blessed be the Lord the God of Israel, who hath accomplished in
deed that which he spoke to David my father, saying:
6:5. From the day that I brought my people out of the land of Egypt, I
chose no city among all the tribes of Israel, for a house to be built in
it to my name: neither chose I any other man, to be the ruler of my
people Israel.
6:6. But I chose Jerusalem, that my name might be there: and I chose
David to set him over my people Israel.
6:7. And whereas David my father had a mind to build a house to the name
of the Lord the God of Israel,
6:8. The Lord said to him: Forasmuch as it was thy will to build a house
to my name, thou hast done well indeed in having such a will:
6:9. But thou shalt not build the house, but thy son, who shall come out
of thy loins, he shall build a house to my name.
6:10. The Lord therefore hath accomplished his word which he spoke: and
I am risen up in the place of David my father, and sit upon the throne
of Israel, as the Lord promised: and have built a house to the name of
the Lord God of Israel.
6:11. And I have put in it the ark, wherein is the covenant of the Lord,
which he made with the children of Israel.
6:12. And he stood before the altar of the Lord, in presence of all the
multitude of Israel, and stretched forth his hands.
6:13. For Solomon had made a brazen scaffold, and had set it in the
midst of the temple, which was five cubits long, and five cubits broad,
and three cubits high: and he stood upon it: then kneeling down in the
presence of all the multitude of Israel, and lifting up his hands
towards hea
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