translation_id: net-engnet

label: NET translator note

text: For location see Map5-B1 ; Map6-F3 ; Map7-E2 ; Map8-F2 ; Map10-B3 ; JP1-F4 ; JP2-F4 ; JP3-F4 ; JP4-F4 .


text: Heb “Then Solomon convened the elders of Israel, the heads of the tribes, the chiefs of the fathers belonging to the sons of Israel to Jerusalem to bring up the ark of the covenant of the Lord from the City of David (it is Zion).”


text: Heb “the tent of assembly.” sn See Exod 33:7-11 .


text: Heb “and they carried the ark of the Lord …. The priests and the Levites carried them.”


text: Heb “And King Solomon and all the assembly of Israel, those who had been gathered to him, [were] before the ark, sacrificing sheep and cattle which could not be counted or numbered because of the abundance.”


text: The word “assigned” is supplied in the translation for clarification.


text: Heb “they could not be seen outside.”


text: Heb “in Horeb where.”


text: Heb “and when the priests went from the holy place.” The syntactical relationship of this temporal clause to the following context is unclear. Perhaps the thought is completed in v. 14 after a lengthy digression.


text: Heb “Indeed [or “for”] all the priests who were found consecrated themselves without guarding divisions.”


text: Heb “like one were the trumpeters and the musicians, causing one voice to be heard, praising and giving thanks to the Lord , and while raising a voice with trumpets and with cymbals and with instruments of music, and while praising the Lord .”


text: Heb “and the house was filled with a cloud, the house of the Lord .”


text: Heb “were not able to stand to serve.”