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Chronicles 4 through 6. Scott, what's happening in these chapters? All right, so the temple is built

at last. We've been talking about the temple for a while now, I feel like. Solomon started building

it back in chapter 3, which included the construction of the most holy place.

This is kind of that interior room where the Ark of the Covenant would go, where the High Priest would go to meet with the Lord.

And chapter 4 briefly covers the construction of the entire temple.

We get this really important moments in Chapter 5 where the Ark of the Covenant is installed.

And, you know, that's important to remember, Shelby, because like what makes the Temple the Temple, the Temple is that God dwells there.

And the Ark of the Covenant represents his presence.

That's where God would meet with a high priest.

And so from this moment on, though, when the Ark is brought into the temple, the tabernacle,

that tent, Moses constructed in the wilderness,

is no more. It's been replaced by this now more permanent structure in Jerusalem.

And we saw this moment back in Kings already, but I love the very end of Chapter 5 here,

because when the ark is installed in the

most holy place, we read that the temple, the Lord's temple, was filled with a cloud. And because

of the cloud, the priests were not able to continue ministering for the glory of the Lord filled

God's temple. Love, love, love that moment. And, you know, clouds, we remember that cloud often represents God's

presence. We saw on Mount Sinai when the cloud comes down. The cloud filled the tabernacle at the very,

very end of Exodus. Jesus is transfigured with some of his disciples. They're enveloped in a cloud

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