sn This bread offered to God was viewed as a perpetual offering to God. See Lev 24:5-9.
2map For location see Map5-B1; Map6-F3; Map7-E2; Map8-F2; Map10-B3; JP1-F4; JP2-F4; JP3-F4; JP4-F4.
3sn The phrase the City of David refers here to the fortress of Zion in Jerusalem, not to Bethlehem. See 2 Sam 5:7.
4tnHeb “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).”
5sn This festival in the seventh month was the Feast of Tabernacles, see Lev 23:34.
6sn The seventh month would be September-October in modern reckoning.
7tnHeb “the tent of assembly.”
sn See Exod 33:7-11.
8tnHeb “and they carried the ark of the Lord…. The priests and the Levites carried them.”
9tnHeb “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.”
10tn The word “assigned” is supplied in the translation for clarification.
11sn These poles were used to carry the ark. The Levites were to carry it with the poles on their shoulders. See Exod 25:13-15; 1 Chr 15:15.
12tnHeb “they could not be seen outside.”
13snHoreb is another name for Mount Sinai (cf. Exod 3:1).
14tnHeb “in Horeb where.”
15tnHeb “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.
16tnHeb “Indeed [or “for”] all the priests who were found consecrated themselves without guarding divisions.”
17tnHeb “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.”
18tnHeb “and the house was filled with a cloud, the house of the Lord.”