Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of 2 Chronicles 29:28
And all the congregation worshiped, and the singers sang, and the trumpeters sounded: [and] all [this continued] until the burnt offering was finished.
28. and all this] R.V. all this.
Fuente: The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges
And all the congregation worshipped,…. Bowed their heads as a token of divine adoration:
and the singers sang; both with vocal and instrumental music, who were the Levites:
and the trumpeters sounded; their silver trumpets; these were the priests: and all this continued
until the burnt offering was finished; with all appertaining to it, the meat and drink offerings.
Fuente: John Gill’s Exposition of the Entire Bible
During the offering of the burnt-offering, until it was ended, the whole congregation stood worshipping; and the song of the Levites, accompanied by the music of the stringed instruments and the trumpet-blowing of the priests, continued. , “the song was singing,” stands for “the body of singers sang;” and the trumpets also stand for the trumpeters.
Fuente: Keil & Delitzsch Commentary on the Old Testament
(28) Worshipped.Were worshipping. LXX. .
The singers.Heb., the song. So we might say the music was playing; or even the song was singing, i.e., being sung.
The trumpeters sounded.And the clarions were blowing (literally, clarioning). The participle is masculine, although the noun is properly feminine, because here the word clarions really stands for the clarion-players. So in modern orchestras they speak of the violins, or the cellos, meaning the players on those instruments.
And all this.Literally, the whole, until the burnt offering was finished.
This passage is highly interesting for the light it throws upon the mode in which the worship of the second Temple was conducted in the fourth century B.C., the probable age of the chronicler; and no doubt also in the times here treated of, for the Temple ritual would naturally be a matter of immemorial tradition. (Comp. 2Ch. 7:5-6.)
Fuente: Ellicott’s Commentary for English Readers (Old and New Testaments)
2Ch 29:28 And all the congregation worshipped, and the singers sang, and the trumpeters sounded: [and] all [this continued] until the burnt offering was finished.
Ver. 28. And the singers sang. ] Heb., And the song sang, i.e., the whole choir; or, as some will, the chief chanter.
Fuente: John Trapp’s Complete Commentary (Old and New Testaments)
And all the congregation: Psa 68:24-26, Rev 5:8-14
the singers sang: Heb. song, Psa 89:15
Reciprocal: Num 10:10 – in the day 1Ch 15:16 – the singers Eze 46:10 – General Luk 19:37 – the whole
Fuente: The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
2Ch 29:28. And all the congregation worshipped The king and all present testified their consent to, and concurrence in, all that was done by bowing their heads and worshipping, expressing an awful veneration for the divine majesty by postures of adoration. It is not enough for us to be where God is worshipped; if we do not ourselves worship him, and that not with bodily exercise only, which profits little, but with the heart.