King James Version
What Does 2 Chronicles 5:4 Mean?
“And all the elders of Israel came; and the Levites took up the ark.”
Context
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 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 Levites took up the ark.
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And they brought up the ark, and the tabernacle of the congregation, and all the holy vessels that were in the tabernacle, these did the priests and the Levites bring up.
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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 numbered for multitude.
Commentary
Ellicott’s Commentary for English Readers(4) **The Levites.**—Kings has *the priests;* and so Syr. and Arab, here; but LXX. and Vulg., *Levites.* The latter term, as the tribal name, may of course be used to include the priests or Aaronites, as well as their inferior brethren. 2Chronicles 5:7 shows that the priests are intended here.
Charles John Ellicott (1819–1905). Public Domain.
Historical Context
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Theological Significance
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