Wednesday Bible Study: Holy holiness

Chapter 5 is basically lifted from 1 Kings 8, but the Chronicler inserts verses 11 and 12. This suggests to me that these verses were in an earlier manuscript of Kings 8, but didn ' t get copied into the canonical version. Those of you who are interested in music will be glad to see these verses, which in addition to the cymbals, harps and lyres mentioned previously give us 120 trumpets. I don ' t see how the harps and lyres could possibly have been heard over 120 trumpets, however. There is no description of the arrangement. It ' s possible the trumpets would have sounded intermittently.  Theologically speaking, this is extremely important to First Temple Judaism. The Ark, in the Temple, is the physical point of contact between the people and Yahweh. It is purported to be the actual location where he manifests himself and where the priests propitiate him with sacrifices. The Chronicler reproduces these events some 200 years after the Temple was destroyed and the Ark either destroyed or stolen, never to be seen again.So the nature of the relationship between the people and God had to be reimagined in the Second Temple period. The Chronicler seems to take this in stride without really trying to explain it.5 When all the work Solomon had done for the temple of theLord was finished, he brought in the things his father David had dedicated —the silver and gold and all the furnishings—and he placed them in the treasuries of God’s temple.The Ark Brought to the T...
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