But we do not find one of these newly invented instruments in use at this grand service.

They cling to the old instruments, used in the first temple, dear to their hearts as being connected with King David, and as having been used by their fathers before them, ver.

27.
Not only the musicians, but the singers are called together from the valleys round Jerusalem, in which the temple choir had chosen to live, in order that they might go up by turn to lead the temple singing, xii.
29.
When all who were to take part in the service had assembled, there was a great sprinkling.

The priests and the Levites purified themselves, and purified the people, and the gates, and the wall.
A red heifer (see Num.

xix.) was led by one of the priests outside the city.