11The priests then withdrew from the Holy Place. All the priests who were there had consecrated themselves, regardless of their divisions.


In Context

8 The cherubim spread their wings over the place of the ark and covered the ark and its carrying poles.

9 These poles were so long that their ends, extending from the ark, could be seen from in front of the inner sanctuary, but not from outside the Holy Place; and they are still there today.

10 There was nothing in the ark except the two tablets that Moses had placed in it at Horeb, where the Lord made a covenant with the Israelites after they came out of Egypt.

11 The priests then withdrew from the Holy Place. All the priests who were there had consecrated themselves, regardless of their divisions.

12 All the Levites who were musicians- Asaph, Heman, Jeduthun and their sons and relatives-stood on the east side of the altar, dressed in fine linen and playing cymbals, harps and lyres. They were accompanied by 120 priests sounding trumpets.

13 The trumpeters and singers joined in unison, as with one voice, to give praise and thanks to the Lord . Accompanied by trumpets, cymbals and other instruments, they raised their voices in praise to the Lord and sang: "He is good; his love endures forever." Then the temple of the Lord was filled with a cloud,

2nd Chronicles 5:11 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

5:11And it came to pass, when the priests were come out of the holy [place:] (for all the priests [that were] present were sanctified, [and] did not [then] wait by course:

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

5:11Now when the priests were come out of the sanctuary, (for all the priests that could be found there, mere sanctified: and as yet at that time the courses and orders of the ministries were not divided among them,)

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

5:11And it came to pass, when the priests were come out of the holy place, (for all the priests that were present had sanctified themselves, and did not keep their courses;

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

5:11And it came to pass when the priests were come out of the holy place (for all the priests that were present were hallowed without observing the courses;

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

5:11And it came to pass, when the priests were come out of the holy place, (for all the priests that were present had sanctified themselves, and did not keep their courses;

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

5:11And it came to pass, when the priests had come out of the holy place: (for all the priests that were present were sanctified, and did not then wait by course:

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

5:11It happened, when the priests were come out of the holy place, (for all the priests who were present had sanctified themselves, and did not keep their divisions;

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

5:11And it cometh to pass, in the going out of the priests from the sanctuary — for all the priests who are present have sanctified themselves, there is none to watch by courses,

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

5:11And it came to pass, when the priests were come out of the holy place: (for all the priests that were present were sanctified, and did not then wait by course: