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Christian Standard Bible ®

2 Chronicles 5:4

All the elders of Israel came, and the Levites picked up the ark.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Ark;   Government;   Temple;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Ark of the Covenant;   Temple, the First;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Temple;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Chronicles, I;   Solomon;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Tabernacle, the;  

Encyclopedias:

- Condensed Biblical Cyclopedia - Hebrew Monarchy, the;   International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Ark of the Covenant;   Elder in the Old Testament;   Temple;   Worship;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Ark of the Covenant;  

Parallel Translations

Hebrew Names Version
All the Zakenim of Yisra'el came: and the Levites took up the ark;
King James Version
And all the elders of Israel came; and the Levites took up the ark.
English Standard Version
And all the elders of Israel came, and the Levites took up the ark.
New Century Version
When all the elders of Israel arrived, the Levites lifted up the Ark.
New English Translation
When all Israel's elders had arrived, the Levites lifted the ark.
Amplified Bible
And all the elders of Israel came, and the Levites took up the ark.
New American Standard Bible
Then all the elders of Israel came, and the Levites picked up the ark.
World English Bible
All the elders of Israel came: and the Levites took up the ark;
Geneva Bible (1587)
And all the Elders of Israel came, and the Leuites tooke vp the Arke.
Legacy Standard Bible
Then all the elders of Israel came, and the Levites carried the ark.
Berean Standard Bible
When all the elders of Israel had arrived, the Levites took up the ark,
Contemporary English Version
Then the priests and the Levites picked up the sacred chest, the sacred tent, and the objects used for worship, and they carried them to the temple.
Complete Jewish Bible
All the leaders of Isra'el came. The L'vi'im took the ark
Darby Translation
And all the elders of Israel came; and the Levites took up the ark.
Easy-to-Read Version
When all the elders of Israel arrived, the Levites lifted the Box of the Agreement
George Lamsa Translation
And all the elders of Israel came; and the priests took up the ark.
Good News Translation
When all the leaders had gathered, then the Levites lifted the Covenant Box
Lexham English Bible
And all the elders of Israel came, and the Levites took up the ark.
Literal Translation
And all the elders of Israel came in, and the Levites lifted up the ark,
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
and all ye Elders in Israel came. And ye Leuites toke the Arke,
American Standard Version
And all the elders of Israel came: and the Levites took up the ark;
Bible in Basic English
All the responsible men of Israel came, and the Levites took up the ark.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
And all the elders of Israel came, and the Leuites toke vp the arke.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
And all the elders of Israel came, and the Levites took up the ark.
King James Version (1611)
And all the Elders of Israel came, and the Leuites tooke vp the Arke.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And all the elders of Israel came; and all the Levites took up the ark,
English Revised Version
And all the elders of Israel came, and the Levites took up the ark.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
And whanne alle the eldre men of Israel `weren comen, the dekenes baren the arke,
Update Bible Version
And all the elders of Israel came: and the Levites took up the ark;
Webster's Bible Translation
And all the elders of Israel came; and the Levites took up the ark.
New King James Version
So all the elders of Israel came, and the Levites took up the ark.
New Living Translation
When all the elders of Israel arrived, the Levites picked up the Ark.
New Life Bible
All the leaders of Israel came, and the Levites took up the special box of God.
New Revised Standard
And all the elders of Israel came, and the Levites carried the ark.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
And all the elders of Israel came in, - and the Levites bare the ark;
Douay-Rheims Bible
And when all the ancients of Israel were come, the Levites took up the ark,
Revised Standard Version
And all the elders of Israel came, and the Levites took up the ark.
Young's Literal Translation
and all the elders of Israel come in, and the Levites lift up the ark,
THE MESSAGE
When all the leaders of Israel were ready, the Levites took up the Chest. They carried the Chest, the Tent of Meeting, and all the sacred things in the Tent used in worship. The priests, all Levites, carried them. King Solomon and the entire congregation of Israel were there before the Chest, worshiping and sacrificing huge numbers of sheep and cattle—so many that no one could keep track.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
Then all the elders of Israel came, and the Levites took up the ark.

Contextual Overview

1So all the work Solomon did for the Lord’s temple was completed. Then Solomon brought the consecrated things of his father David—the silver, the gold, and all the utensils—and put them in the treasuries of God’s temple. 2At that time Solomon assembled at Jerusalem the elders of Israel—all the tribal heads, the ancestral chiefs of the Israelites—in order to bring the ark of the covenant of the Lord up from the city of David, that is, Zion. 3So all the men of Israel were assembled in the king’s presence at the festival; this was in the seventh month. 4All the elders of Israel came, and the Levites picked up the ark. 5They brought up the ark, the tent of meeting, and the holy utensils that were in the tent. The priests and the Levites brought them up. 6King Solomon and the entire congregation of Israel who had gathered around him were in front of the ark sacrificing sheep, goats, and cattle that could not be counted or numbered because there were so many. 7The priests brought the ark of the Lord’s covenant to its place, into the inner sanctuary of the temple, to the most holy place, beneath the wings of the cherubim. 8And the cherubim spread their wings over the place of the ark so that the cherubim formed a cover above the ark and its poles. 9The poles were so long that their ends were seen from the holy place in front of the inner sanctuary, but they were not seen from outside; they are still there today. 10Nothing was in the ark except the two tablets that Moses had put in it at Horeb, where the Lord had made a covenant with the Israelites when they came out of Egypt.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

the Levites: Probably the Levites, of the family of Kohath, carried the ark into the courts of the temple; and then the priests conveyed it into its proper place. Numbers 4:15, Joshua 3:6, Joshua 6:6, 1 Kings 8:3, 1 Chronicles 15:2, 1 Chronicles 15:12-14

Reciprocal: Deuteronomy 10:8 - bear

Cross-References

Genesis 1:28
God blessed them, and God said to them, “Be fruitful, multiply, fill the earth, and subdue it. Rule the fish of the sea, the birds of the sky, and every creature that crawls on the earth.”
Genesis 5:1
This is the document containing the family records of Adam. On the day that God created man, he made him in the likeness of God;
Genesis 5:3
Adam was 130 years old when he fathered a son in his likeness, according to his image, and named him Seth.
Genesis 5:7
Seth lived 807 years after he fathered Enosh, and he fathered other sons and daughters.
Genesis 5:10
Enosh lived 815 years after he fathered Kenan, and he fathered other sons and daughters.
Genesis 5:13
Kenan lived 840 years after he fathered Mahalalel, and he fathered other sons and daughters.
Genesis 5:19
Jared lived 800 years after he fathered Enoch, and he fathered other sons and daughters.
Genesis 5:22
And after he fathered Methuselah, Enoch walked with God 300 years and fathered other sons and daughters.
Genesis 5:26
Methuselah lived 782 years after he fathered Lamech, and he fathered other sons and daughters.
Genesis 5:30
Lamech lived 595 years after he fathered Noah, and he fathered other sons and daughters.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

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Barnes' Notes on the Bible

The Levites took up the ark - i. e., such of the Levites as were also priests (compare 2 Chronicles 5:7; 1 Kings 8:3).


 
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