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Instead of הַֽלְוִיִּם, we have in 2 Kings הַכֹּהֲנִים, the priests bare the ark; and since even according to the Chronicle (2Ch 5:7) the priests bare the ark into the holy place, we must understand by הַֽלְוִיִּם such Levites were also priests. - In 2Ch 5:5, too the words הַֽלְוִיִּם הַכֹּהֲנִים are inexact, and are to be corrected by 1Ki 8:4, וְהַֽלְוִיִּם הַכֹּהֲנִים. For even if the Levitic priests bare the ark and the sacred utensils of the tabernacle into the temple, yet the tabernacle itself (the planks, hangings, and coverings of it) was borne into the temple, to be preserved as a holy relic, not by priests, but only by Levites. The conj. ו before הלוים has probably been omitted only by a copyist, who was thinking of הלוים הכהנים (Jos 3:3; Deu 17:9, Deu 17:18, etc.). - In 2Ch 5:8 וַיְכַסּוּ is an orthographical error for וַיָּסֹכּוּ, 1Ki 8:7; cf. 1Ch 28:18; Exo 25:20. - In 2Ch 5:9, too, מִן־הָאָרֹון has probably come into our text only by a copyist's mistake instead of מִן־הַקֹּדֵשׁ (1Ki 8:8).