2 Chronicles 5:4
New International Version
When all the elders of Israel had arrived, the Levites took up the ark,

New Living Translation
When all the elders of Israel arrived, the Levites picked up the Ark.

English Standard Version
And all the elders of Israel came, and the Levites took up the ark.

Berean Standard Bible
When all the elders of Israel had arrived, the Levites took up the ark,

King James Bible
And all the elders of Israel came; and the Levites took up the ark.

New King James Version
So all the elders of Israel came, and the Levites took up the ark.

New American Standard Bible
Then all the elders of Israel came, and the Levites picked up the ark.

NASB 1995
Then all the elders of Israel came, and the Levites took up the ark.

NASB 1977
Then all the elders of Israel came, and the Levites took up the ark.

Legacy Standard Bible
Then all the elders of Israel came, and the Levites carried the ark.

Amplified Bible
And all the elders of Israel came, and the Levites took up the ark.

Christian Standard Bible
All the elders of Israel came, and the Levites picked up the ark.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
All the elders of Israel came, and the Levites picked up the ark.

American Standard Version
And all the elders of Israel came: and the Levites took up the ark;

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
And all the Elders of Israel came, and the Priests picked up the Ark.

Brenton Septuagint Translation
And all the elders of Israel came; and all the Levites took up the ark,

Douay-Rheims Bible
And when all the ancients of Israel were come, the Levites took up the ark,

English Revised Version
And all the elders of Israel came, and the Levites took up the ark.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
When all the leaders of Israel had arrived, the Levites picked up the ark.

Good News Translation
When all the leaders had gathered, then the Levites lifted the Covenant Box

International Standard Version
As soon as all of Israel's elders had arrived, the descendants of Levi lifted the ark

JPS Tanakh 1917
And all the elders of Israel came, and the Levites took up the ark.

Literal Standard Version
and all [the] elderly of Israel come in, and the Levites lift up the Ark,

Majority Standard Bible
When all the elders of Israel had arrived, the Levites took up the ark,

New American Bible
When all the elders of Israel had arrived, the Levites took up the ark;

NET Bible
When all Israel's elders had arrived, the Levites lifted the ark.

New Revised Standard Version
And all the elders of Israel came, and the Levites carried the ark.

New Heart English Bible
All the elders of Israel came: and the Levites took up the ark;

Webster's Bible Translation
And all the elders of Israel came; and the Levites took up the ark.

World English Bible
All the elders of Israel came. The Levites took up the ark.

Young's Literal Translation
and all the elders of Israel come in, and the Levites lift up the ark,

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Context
The Ark Enters the Temple
3So all the men of Israel came together to the king at the feast in the seventh month. 4When all the elders of Israel had arrived, the Levites took up the ark, 5and they brought up the ark and the Tent of Meeting with all its sacred furnishings. The Levitical priests carried them up.…

Cross References
Joshua 3:6
And he said to the priests, "Take the ark of the covenant and go on ahead of the people." So they carried the ark of the covenant and went ahead of them.

2 Chronicles 5:5
and they brought up the ark and the Tent of Meeting with all its sacred furnishings. The Levitical priests carried them up.

2 Chronicles 5:7
Then the priests brought the ark of the covenant of the LORD to its place in the inner sanctuary of the temple, the Most Holy Place, beneath the wings of the cherubim.


Treasury of Scripture

And all the elders of Israel came; and the Levites took up the ark.

Numbers 4:15
And when Aaron and his sons have made an end of covering the sanctuary, and all the vessels of the sanctuary, as the camp is to set forward; after that, the sons of Kohath shall come to bear it: but they shall not touch any holy thing, lest they die. These things are the burden of the sons of Kohath in the tabernacle of the congregation.

Joshua 3:6
And Joshua spake unto the priests, saying, Take up the ark of the covenant, and pass over before the people. And they took up the ark of the covenant, and went before the people.

Joshua 6:6
And Joshua the son of Nun called the priests, and said unto them, Take up the ark of the covenant, and let seven priests bear seven trumpets of rams' horns before the ark of the LORD.

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(4) The Levites.--Kings has the priests; and so Syr. and Arab, here; but LXX. and Vulg., Levites. The latter term, as the tribal name, may of course be used to include the priests or Aaronites, as well as their inferior brethren. 2Chronicles 5:7 shows that the priests are intended here.

Verse 4. - The Levites. So see Numbers 4:15, 19, 20, which, with our vers. 5, 7, throw this statement into sufficient harmony with that of the parallel (1 Kings 8:3), which purports to say that the priests only, unaided by the Kohathite Levites, performed the service.

Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
When all
כֹּ֖ל (kōl)
Noun - masculine singular construct
Strong's 3605: The whole, all, any, every

the elders
זִקְנֵ֣י (ziq·nê)
Adjective - masculine plural construct
Strong's 2205: Old

of Israel
יִשְׂרָאֵ֑ל (yiś·rā·’êl)
Noun - proper - masculine singular
Strong's 3478: Israel -- 'God strives', another name of Jacob and his desc

had arrived,
וַיָּבֹ֕אוּ (way·yā·ḇō·’ū)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Consecutive imperfect - third person masculine plural
Strong's 935: To come in, come, go in, go

the Levites
הַלְוִיִּ֖ם (hal·wî·yim)
Article | Noun - proper - masculine plural
Strong's 3881: Levites -- descendant of Levi

took up
וַיִּשְׂא֥וּ (way·yiś·’ū)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Consecutive imperfect - third person masculine plural
Strong's 5375: To lift, carry, take

the ark,
הָאָרֽוֹן׃ (hā·’ā·rō·wn)
Article | Noun - common singular
Strong's 727: A chest, ark


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OT History: 2 Chronicles 5:4 All the elders of Israel came: (2 Chron. 2Ch iiCh ii ch 2 chr 2chr)
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