i.e. the staves. In either oase, whet.her the in the book on el\rth, 'llhioh will endure ark or the staves were spoken of, the memo- through all gcnorations, as long as the sun nmdum is exceedingly interesting and note- and moon endure, II.I! ushoring in tho moment worthy, RB a patent barn copy of an old when, as described in the next verse, to the reoord dating before the <lesLTuction of the unauimous fervent Rdomtion and pro.iso of temple, on the pnrt of whether the writer of man, God bent a willing, gracious el\r, Kings or Chronicles. Plainly the historian and to oe.rth the glory of heBvon drew nigh, touches ground, and shows 11s that toe do Oymbals. The word used hero (0'.".17~1?), also; for it is evident that, for from cunningly denoting strictly "pair of cymbals," occurs devised fable, he hRB before him in either eleven times in Chronicles, once in Ezra, CR~ e.n original document. e.nd once in Nehemiah. Another form of Ver. 10.-Nothing in the ark save the two essentially the same word occurs once in tables (see Deut. L 5; and Exod. xl. 20; 2 So.m. v1. 5 e.n<l twice in Ps. cl. 5. 'fhis then n:.iv. 12; xxv. 16; xxxi. IS; xxxii. last passage notes two kinds of oymbo.ls-the 19; :x:x:xiv. I, 4, 29; xl. 20). The stones "loud" Rnd the "high-sounding." It was were therefore now, in Solomon's time, nearly the former of these that Ase.ph, Heme.n, and fol!lr hundred e.nd ninety yea.re old. Why Jeduthun used, and their use we.a probably the "golden pot" and "Aaron's rod" (Heb. to regulate or beat the time (see Smith's ix. 4) were not there does not appear. The • Bible Dictionary,' i. 375, 876; Condor's language of the Epistle is partially con- • Handbook to the Bible,' p. 167, 2nd edit.). firmed, at any rate in harmony with Exod. xvi. 34; Numb. xvii. 10. Possibly they Psalteries (~~J), This word occurs twenty- may have ,wu, been removed by Solomon, eight times in the Old Testament, but of but it seems very unlikely that, if so, no these it is transll\ted (Authorized Version) mention of the removal is me.de. On the four times e.s "viols" (Isa.. v. 12; xiv. 11 ; other he.nd, the "book of the Law" had not Amos v. 23; vi. 5); it is o.lso once rendered been consigned to the e.rk, but to e. place " vessels of flagons" (Isa.. xxii. 24), but· the .. by the side of" it (Deut. xxri. 25-27). margin offers the version "instruments of Ver. 11.-The parallel (I Kings viii. 10) viols." While the cymbal wo.s, of course, o.n shows the first half of this verse and the last instrument of percussion, the psaltery was sentence of ver. 13 to make its tenth verse. one of strings-its use was e.s an e.ccompe.ni- All between these two is specie.I to the present ment to the voice. The first mention of it po.ssage and to Chronicles. All the priests is very interesting (l Se.m. x. 5). Compare . . . not by oonrse ; i.e. e.ll of ell the courses, e.lso David's e.nd Solomon's psaltery in 2 twenty-four in number, instead of only the Se.m. vi 5; eh. ix. 11. Harps (iu~). This one course on de.ily duty at the time (l word occurs forty-two times, beginning witll Chron. x:riii. 6-32; xxiv. 1-31). Present; Gen. iv. 21. Trumpet8 (;i~lll,'.!), This word or, found more literally; the.t is to say, a.II (including eleven of the personnl forms of it, who were not for one ce.nse or another out e.s e.g. the person blowing the trumpet) occurs of reach (1 Chron. xrix. 17; Ezra viii. 25). just forty times, beginning with Numb. x. 2. The Hebrew word is the fe.milie.r 0•11:1:03;,, It we.a the straight tuba, and wo.s not, there- Ver. 12.-This verse, marked off' i~ ·the fore, the same with the ram's-horn shaped Authorized Version in brackets, is most buccina (i~ei), generally rendered in the graphic. First all the priests, who were Authorized Version'' cornet," but sometimes not horB de combat, i.e. e.ll the "courses" of "trumpet;" the specie.lty of the comet being them together, thronged the arena; and to blow e. sound for e. signal or summons of now they a.re joined by all the Levites who some sort, whether secular e.s in war, or were singers, of them of Aaaph, of Heman, se.cred as for some festival. The trumpet8 of Jeduthun (1 Chron. x.xv. 1-31), i.e. of our verse evidently (Numb. x. 8) were in twenty-four choirs in one, with their sons a particule.r sense tile instrument of the and their brethren: and this collected choir priests. is arrayed in white linen; e.nd they have Ver. 13.-It cannot but be the.t it was three kinds of musice.J instruments--0ymba.J.s intended in this verse that attention should (Ps. cl. 5) e.nd psalteries (or lutes) e.nd be ri vetted to the fa.et of the splendid con• harps (1 Chron. xvi. 5; x.xv. I); and they sente.neity of all singers e.nd all musicians, take up their station at the ee.st end of the of hearts and voices e.nd instruments. Tllo altar, and still further a strong support suggestion is as significant as it is impressive, 11.anks these of a hundred and twenty a suggestion to the Ohurch of e.ll time, e.nd priests ■ounding with trumpets (l Chron. supremely a.eking notice now, Even the xvi. 6), So ends our inopportune Authorized house. The close of ver. 14, e.s e.lso the Version parenthesis. But to whe.t all this? parallel (1 Kings viii. 11 ), justifies the suppo• It ia a RCene in e. nation's history, in the sition that the Septuagint showing the word univeree.l Church's history; it is witnessed a&!11s, guides us rightly in resto1'ing the from heaven, and by Heaven's will recorded word "glory" (ii~1) here, in. ple.ee of the OH, v. 1-14.J THE SECOND BOOK OF THE CHRONICLES. 55
word "house" (n•~). Jl'or he ie good (so I C!Jron. xvi. 84; Ps. oxxxvi. I ; eh. vii. 8; I minister Ver. 14.-The priest& oould not stand to by rea1on of the oloud (so Exod. Ezm iii, 11). xl. 84, 85).