2 Chronicles 5

This Testimony, this Covenant, these Tables of Stone with the Moral Law engraven in them, were by the express command of God put into the Ark (Exodus 25:16; chapter 33:18; chapter 40:20; Deuteronomy 10:5). And there was nothing else in the Ark but these two Tables of Stone with…

But principally it regards his mission by Christ after his ascension into Heaven (Acts 2:33): Being exalted and having received the promise of the Father, he sent the Spirit. The promise of him was, that he should be sent from Heaven, or from above, as God is said to be above, w…

But the Scripture is clear, that the musical instruments were appointed to be used continually before the Ark (1 Chronicles 16:4, 5, 6). And the singers and trumpeters stood at the east end of the altar at the dedication of the Temple (2 Chronicles 5:12). And in Hezekiah's time,…

In the second house there was little of all these; and for the things of most cost and charge nothing at all. Nor did the riches of this house consist only in the solid parts of the fabric, but in those vast treasures of silver and gold with other precious things, which being de…

The end therefore God appointed the making of this Ark, was to put therein § 10 [⟨in non-Latin alphabet⟩] the Testimony (Exodus 25:16), that is the two Tables of stone engraved on all sides with the ten Commandments, pronounced by the ministry of angels, written with the finger…

2. David's exhortation to sing a new song, pertained to them in the Old Testament, as well as to us in the New. And yet they upon new occasions sang the old songs of David, and that with acceptance (2 Chronicles 5:13; 2 Chronicles 20:21; Ezra 3:11). 3. Asaph, Heman, and Ethan, w…

If it be said, Why, is it not a confusion for so many voyces to joyne together in singing a Psalme, though it be one and the same Psalme? Answ. No more now in the New Testament, then it was in the Old, when the Trumpeters and Singers were as one, to make one sound to be heard in…

And in chapter 15:25: 'So David and the elders of Israel, and the captains over thousands, went to bring up the Ark of the Covenant of the Lord, out of the house of Obed-Edom, with joy.' So also in 2 Samuel 6:1, and when the Ark was brought into the temple in 1 Kings 8:1, 3 and…