2 Chronicles 7:6
Context7:6 The priests stood in their assigned spots, along with the Levites who had the musical instruments used for praising the Lord. 1 (These were the ones King David made for giving thanks to the Lord and which were used by David when he offered praise, saying, “Certainly his loyal love endures.”) 2 Opposite the Levites, 3 the priests were blowing the trumpets, while all Israel stood there.
2 Chronicles 8:14
Context8:14 As his father David had decreed, Solomon 4 appointed the divisions of the priests to do their assigned tasks, the Levitical orders to lead worship and help the priests with their daily tasks, 5 and the divisions of the gatekeepers to serve at their assigned gates. 6 This was what David the man of God had ordered. 7
2 Chronicles 13:9
Context13:9 But you banished 8 the Lord’s priests, Aaron’s descendants, and the Levites, and appointed your own priests just as the surrounding nations do! Anyone who comes to consecrate himself with a young bull or seven rams becomes a priest of these fake gods! 9
2 Chronicles 26:19
Context26:19 Uzziah, who had an incense censer in his hand, became angry. While he was ranting and raving 10 at the priests, a skin disease 11 appeared on his forehead right there in front of the priests in the Lord’s temple near the incense altar.
1 tn Heb “and the priests were standing at their posts, and the Levites with the instruments of music of the
2 tn Heb “which David the king made to give thanks to the
3 tn Heb “opposite them”; the referent (the Levites) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
4 tn Heb “he”; the referent (Solomon) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
5 tn Heb “and the Levites, according to their posts, to praise and to serve opposite the priests according to the matter of a day in its day.”
6 tn Heb “and the gatekeepers by their divisions for a gate and a gate.”
7 tn Heb “for so [was] the command of David the man of God.”
8 tn In the Hebrew text this is phrased as a rhetorical question, “Did you not banish?” The rhetorical question expects the answer, “Of course you did,” the force of which is reflected in the translation “But you banished.”
9 tn Heb “whoever comes to fill his hand with a bull of a son of cattle, and seven rams, and he is a priest to no-gods.”
10 tn Heb “angry.”
11 tn Traditionally “leprosy,” but this was probably a skin disorder of some type, not leprosy (technically known today as Hansen’s disease). See 2 Kgs 5:1.