ABSTRACT
The Temple with which Chronicles is concerned is ostensibly the First Temple, but since most of the details Chronicles provides are reckoned to have been retrojected from the pre-Herodian Second Temple. The next group, consisting of books from the Old Testament Apocrypha in the, provides details from the last two centuries of the Second Temple. There is evidence of music at both processions and popular cultic festivities under more usual circumstances during the last ibed by David Wulstan ready for when his son Solomon will have built the Temple. Postexilic cultic music have been read out of the Chronicles version of the narrative of the removal of the Ark to Jerusalem. Information about the place of music in the sacrificial rites is provided in all three of the chronologically determined groups of sources. Popular festivities during major festivals, and cultic processions prior to the sacrifices on festival days, were features of cultic worship at the temple after the exile.
