2 Chronicles 5:14
New Revised Standard Version
so that the priests could not stand to minister because of the cloud; for the glory of the LORD filled the house of God.

Contemporary English Version
The LORD's glory was in that cloud, and the light from it was so bright that the priests could not stay inside to do their work.

New American Bible
The priests could no longer minister because of the cloud, since the glory of the LORD had filled the house of God.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Nor could the priests stand and minister by reason of the cloud. For the glory of the Lord had filled the house of God.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Nor could the priests stand and minister by reason of the cloud. For the glory of the Lord had filled the house of God.

the priests

2 Chronicles 7:2 Neither could the priests enter into the temple of the Lord, because the majesty of the Lord had filled the temple of the Lord.

1 Timothy 6:16 Who only hath immortality and inhabiteth light inaccessible: whom no man hath seen, nor can see: to whom be honour and empire everlasting. Amen.

the glory

Exodus 40:35 Neither could Moses go into the tabernacle of the covenant, the cloud covering all things, and the majesty of the Lord shining, for the cloud had covered all.

Isaiah 6:1-4 In the year that king Ozias died, I saw the Lord sitting upon a throne high and elevated: and his train filled the temple. . . .

Ezekiel 10:4 And the glory of the Lord was lifted up from above the cherub to the threshold of the house: and the house was filled with the cloud, and the court was filled with the brightness of the glory of the Lord.

Revelation 15:8 And the temple was filled with smoke from the majesty of God and from his power. And no man was able to enter into the temple, till the seven plagues of the seven angels were fulfilled.

Context
God's Glory Fills the Temple
13So when they all sounded together, both with trumpets, and voice, and cymbals, and organs, and with divers kind of musical instruments, and lifted up their voice on high: the sound was heard afar off, so that when they began to praise the Lord, and to say: Give glory to the Lord for he is good, for his mercy endureth for ever: the house of God was filled with a cloud. 14Nor could the priests stand and minister by reason of the cloud. For the glory of the Lord had filled the house of God.
Cross References
Exodus 40:35
Neither could Moses go into the tabernacle of the covenant, the cloud covering all things, and the majesty of the Lord shining, for the cloud had covered all.

1 Kings 8:11
And the priests could not stand to minister because of the cloud: for the glory of the Lord had filled the house of the Lord.

2 Chronicles 7:2
Neither could the priests enter into the temple of the Lord, because the majesty of the Lord had filled the temple of the Lord.

2 Chronicles 5:13
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