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 lifted up their voice with the trumpets and cymbals and instruments of musick, and praised the LORD, saying, 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;
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Barnes' Notes
Even the house of the Lord - Or, according to another reading (Septuagint), which removes the superfluousness of these words - “The house was filled with a cloud of the glory of the Lord.”
Adam Clarke
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…
Solomon, and the elders of Israel, had done what they could to grace the solemnity of the introduction of the ark; but God, by testifying his acceptance of what they did, put the greatest honour upon…
Cambridge Bible
instruments of musick Rather as R.V. mg. instruments for song.
for his mercyendureth for ever 1Ch 16:41.
was filledwith a cloud Exo 40:34-35.
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