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2 Crônicas 5

BLIVRE · Chapter 5/36

1E acabada que foi toda a obra que fez Salomão para a casa do SENHOR, meteu Salomão nela as coisas que Davi seu pai havia dedicado; e pôs a prata, e o ouro, e todos os vasos, nos tesouros da casa de Deus.

2Então Salomão juntou em Jerusalém os anciãos de Israel, e todos os príncipes das tribos, os cabeças das famílias dos filhos de Israel, para que trouxessem a arca do pacto do SENHOR da cidade de Davi, que é Sião.

3E juntaram-se ao rei todos os varões de Israel, à solenidade do mês sétimo.

4E vieram todos os anciãos de Israel, e tomaram os levitas a arca:

5E levaram a arca, e o tabernáculo do testemunho, e todos os vasos do santuário que estavam no tabernáculo: os sacerdotes e os levitas os levaram.

6E o rei Salomão, e toda a congregação de Israel que se havia a ele reunido diante da arca, sacrificaram ovelhas e bois, que pela abundância não se puderam contar nem numerar.

7E os sacerdotes meteram a arca do pacto do SENHOR em seu lugar, no compartimento interno da casa, no lugar santíssimo, sob as asas dos querubins:

8Pois os querubins estendiam as asas sobre o assento da arca, e cobriam os querubins por encima assim a arca como suas barras.

9E fizeram sair fora as barras, de modo que se vissem as cabeças das barras da arca diante do compartimento interno , mas não se viam desde fora: e ali estiveram até hoje.

10No arca nada havia, a não serem as duas tábuas que Moisés havia posto em Horebe, com as quais o SENHOR havia feito aliança com os filhos de Israel, depois que saíram do Egito.

11E quando os sacerdotes saíram do santuário, (porque todos os sacerdotes que se acharam haviam sido santificados, e não guardavam suas vezes;

12E os levitas cantores, todos os de Asafe, os de Hemã, e os de Jedutum, juntamente com seus filhos e seus irmãos, vestidos de linho fino, estavam com címbalos e saltérios e harpas ao oriente do altar; e com eles cento vinte sacerdotes que tocavam trombetas);

13Soavam, pois, as trombetas, e cantavam com a voz todos a uma, para louvar e confessar ao SENHOR: e quando levantavam a voz com trombetas e címbalos e instrumentos de música, quando louvavam ao SENHOR, dizendo: Porque é bom, porque sua misericórdia é para sempre; então a casa, [isto é] ,a casa do SENHOR, se encheu de uma nuvem.

14E os sacerdotes não podiam ficar em pé para ministrar, por causa da nuvem; porque a glória do SENHOR havia enchido a casa de Deus.

📖 Chapter study

Summary

After the temple is completed, the ark of the covenant is solemnly brought into the innermost sanctuary, the Most Holy Place. As priests and musicians praise God in unison, a cloud of God's glory fills the temple so intensely that the priests are unable to continue ministering.

Explanation

This is one of the most dramatic and visually powerful moments in the entire Old Testament: the visible, tangible presence of God, represented by the cloud of glory, physically fills the newly built space, confirming that the temple was accepted as a dwelling place for the divine. It is significant that this manifestation happens precisely when the priests and Levites praise 'as with one voice,' suggesting a connection between unified, sincere worship and the tangible experience of God's presence. The mention that only the two tablets of the Law of Moses were inside the ark, and nothing else, reinforces the centrality of the covenant and the law as the foundation of the relationship between God and his people.

Fun facts

  • The cloud of glory that filled the temple is the same manifestation, later called the 'Shekinah' in Jewish tradition, that had accompanied Israel in the wilderness and filled the tabernacle built by Moses in Exodus 40.
  • The mention of 120 priests sounding trumpets simultaneously during the celebration shows the impressive scale of the dedication ceremony, one of the largest religious gatherings recorded in the Old Testament.

Verse-by-verse explanation

  1. 2 Crônicas 5:1With the temple’s construction finished, Solomon stores there the treasures David himself had set aside earlier — silver, gold, and other objects — along with everything he himself had made.
  2. 2 Crônicas 5:2Solomon gathers all of Israel’s leaders in Jerusalem — elders, tribal chiefs, family heads — just to organize the solemn procession bringing the ark up to the new temple.
  3. 2 Crônicas 5:3This ceremony takes place during a great feast in the seventh month of the calendar — probably the Feast of Tabernacles, a weighty moment on the religious calendar.
  4. 2 Crônicas 5:4It is the Levites, not ordinary priests or the king himself, who carry the ark — following the rule established since the time of Moses.
  5. 2 Crônicas 5:5Along with the ark, the old tabernacle of the congregation and all the sacred vessels still in it are brought up too — the symbolic end of the wilderness’ portable system.
  6. 2 Crônicas 5:6As the ark goes up, Solomon and the whole people sacrifice so many sheep and oxen that the text doesn’t even try to count them — it just describes them as impossible to number.
  7. 2 Crônicas 5:7The priests finally set the ark in its permanent place, under the wings of the cherubim, inside the Most Holy Place of the new temple.
  8. 2 Crônicas 5:8The cherubim’s outstretched wings covered both the ark and the poles used to carry it, forming a kind of protective canopy above it.
  9. 2 Crônicas 5:9The poles were long enough for their ends to show only from inside the sacred chamber, never from outside — and the text notes they remained that way up to the time it was written.
  10. 2 Crônicas 5:10Inside the ark there was nothing but the two tablets of Moses’s law — no pot of manna or Aaron’s rod, which other passages of the Bible mention as having been kept there too. The text doesn’t explain why they’re missing, it just records what was actually there at that moment.
  11. 2 Crônicas 5:11Before the ceremony’s most striking moment, every priest present purifies himself ritually, without following the usual rotation of service divisions — the occasion called for everyone together.
  12. 2 Crônicas 5:12Levite singers, dressed in fine linen and playing cymbals, harps, and trumpets, position themselves east of the altar — a choir and orchestra assembled specifically for this moment.
  13. 2 Crônicas 5:13When the musicians and priests join in a single voice of praise, singing that the Lord’s mercy endures forever, a cloud fills the temple — the sign that precedes the chapter’s most famous scene.
  14. 2 Crônicas 5:14The cloud of God’s glory fills the temple with such force that the priests themselves cannot stand to continue their service. It is the same scene that had already happened at the tabernacle’s dedication in Moses’s time, now repeated to confirm that God approves this new place of worship.

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