Annotations upon the Holy Bible. Vol. I wherein the sacred text is inserted, and various readings annex'd, together with parallel scriptures, the more difficult terms in each verse are explained, seeming contradictions reconciled, questions and doubts resolved, and the whole text opened / by the late reverend and learned divine Mr. Matthew Poole.

CHAP. V.

1 THus all the work that Solomon made for the house of the LORD was finished: * 1.1 And Solomon brought in all the things that David his fa∣ther had dedicated; and the silver, and the gold a 1.2, and all the Instruments, put he among the treasures of the house of God.

2 * 1.3 Then Solomon assembled the elders of Is∣rael b 1.4, and all the heads of the tribes, the ‖ 1.5 chief of the fathers of the children of Israel unto Jeru∣salem, to bring up the ark of the covenant of the LORD, out of the city of David, which is Zion.

3 Wherefore all the men of Israel assembled themselves unto the king in the feast, which was in the seventh month.

4 And all the elders of Israel came, and the Le∣vites took up the ark.

5 And they brought up the ark, and the taber∣nacle of the congregation, and all the holy vessels that were in the tabernacle, these did the priests and the Levites bring up.

6 Also king Solomon and all the congregation of Israel that were assembled unto him before the ark, sacrificed sheep and oxen, which could not be told nor numbred for multitude.

7 And the priests brought in the ark of the co∣venant of the LORD, unto his place, to the oracle of the house into the holy place, even under the wings of the cherubims.

8 For the cherubims spread forth their wings o∣ver the place of the ark, and the cherubims cover∣ed the ark and the staves thereof above.

9 And they drew out the staves of the ark, that the ends of the staves were seen from the ark be∣fore the oracle, but they were not seen without. And ‖ 1.6 there it is unto this day c 1.7.

10 There was nothing in the ark save the two ta∣bles which Moses * 1.8 put therein at Horeb, ‖ 1.9 when the LORD made a covenant with the children of Is∣rael, when they came out of Egypt.

11 And it came to pass when the priests were come out of the holy place: (for all the priests that were † 1.10 present were sanctified, and did not then wait by course d 1.11.

12 * 1.12 And also the Levites which were the sin∣gers; all of them of Asaph, of Heman, of Jedu∣thun, with their sons, and their brethren; being arrayed in white linen, having cymbals, and psalte∣ries, and harps, stood at the east-end of the altar, and with them an hundred and twenty priests soun∣ding with trumpets.)

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 lift up their voice with the trumpets, and cym∣bals, and instruments of musick, and praised the LORD, saying, * 1.13 For he is good, for his mercy en∣dureth for ever: that then the house was filled with a cloud, even the house of the LORD;

14 So that the priests could not stand to minister by reason of the cloud: for the glory of the LORD had filled the house of God.

Notes

• * 1.1

  1 Kin. 7. 51.
• a 1.2

  Or, even (as that particle is oft understood) the Silver, and the Gold, the Remainder of those vast Sums mentioned 1 Chron. 22. 14.
• * 1.3

  1 King. 8. 2, &c.
• b 1.4

  Of this and the following Verses see the Notes on 1 King. 8 1, &c.
• ‖ 1.5

  Or, rulers of the families. So Gr.
• ‖ 1.6

  Or, 〈◊〉〈◊〉 〈◊〉〈◊〉 〈◊〉〈◊〉, 〈◊〉〈◊〉, 1 Kin. •…•…. •…•….
• c 1.7

  When this History was first written; not when it was review∣ed by Ezra, who made some Additions to it: For after the Return from Babylon neither Staves nor Ark were any more seen or heard of.
• * 1.8

  Deut. 10. 2, 5.
• ‖ 1.9

  Or, 〈◊〉〈◊〉.
• † 1.10

  Heb. 〈◊〉〈◊〉
• d 1.11

  According to Davids Appointment, 1 Chron. 24. & 25. which was onely for the Ordinary Service, but in Extraordinary Solem∣nities, such as this eminently was, they all came together.
• * 1.12

  1 Chr. 25. •…•….
• * 1.13

  Psal. 136.