2 Chronicles 5:13 - Exposition

It cannot but be that it was intended in this verse that attention should be rivetted to the fact of the splendid consentaneity of all singers and all musicians, of hearts and voices and instruments. The suggestion is as significant as it is impressive, a suggestion to the Church of all time, and supremely asking notice now. Even the house . The close of 2 Chronicles 5:14 , as also the parallel ( 1 Kings 8:11 ), justifies the supposition that the Septuagint showing the word δόξης , guides us rightly in restoring the word "glory" ( כְבוֹד ) here, in place of the word "house" ( בֵּית ). For he is good (so 1 Chronicles 16:34 ; Psalms 136:1 ; 2 Chronicles 7:3 ; Ezra 3:11 ).