2 Chronicles 5:11 - Exposition

The parallel ( 1 Kings 8:10 ) shows the first half of this verse and the last sentence of 2 Chronicles 5:13 to make its tenth verse. All between these two is special to the present passage and to Chronicles. All the priests … not by course ; i.e. all of all the courses, twenty-four in number, instead of only the one course on daily duty at the time ( 1 Chronicles 23:6-32 ; 1 Chronicles 24:1-31 ). Present ; or, found more literally; that is to say, all who were not for one cause or another out of reach ( 1 Chronicles 29:17 ; Ezra 8:25 ). The Hebrew word is the familiar הַגִּמְצְאִים .