1And all the artisanry which Solomon made for the house of the
Lord was completed, and Solomon brought the holy
articles of David his father, and he put the silver and the gold and all the equipment in the treasuries of the house of God.
2Then Solomon convened the elders of Israel and all the heads of the tribes, the leaders of the paternal families of the sons of Israel, in Jerusalem, to bring up the ark of the covenant of the
Lord from the City of David, which
is Zion.
3So every
head man of Israel was convened to the king at the festival
time – that
is in the seventh month.
4So all the elders of Israel came, and the Levites carried the ark.
5And they brought the ark up, and the tent of contact, and all the holy equipment which
was in the tent. And
it was the Levite priests
who brought it up.
6Then King Solomon, and the whole congregation of Israel which
was assembled with him before the ark, sacrificed sheep and oxen, which
could not be numbered and
could not be counted for abundance.
7And the priests brought the ark of the covenant of the
Lord to its place – to the place of address of the house, to the holy of holies – under the wings of the cherubim.
8And the cherubim stretched out
their wings over the place of the ark, and the cherubim covered the ark and its staves from above.
9And they extended the staves such that the ends of the staves of the ark were visible in front of the place of address, but they were not visible outside. And it has been there up to this day.
10There was nothing in the ark except the two tablets which Moses put
in it at Horeb, when the
Lord made
a covenant with the sons of Israel when they came out of Egypt.
11Then it came to pass, when the priests came out of the sanctuary, that all the priests who were present had sanctified themselves. They
were not on duty according to
their divisions.
12And the Levites who sang – all of Asaph's
choirs, of Heman's, of Jeduthun's, and
those of their sons and their brothers, clothed
in byssus – with timbrels and lutes and harps, stood to the east of the altar, and with them
were one hundred and twenty priests blowing trumpets.
13And it came to pass, as the trumpeters and the singers
were in unison in producing a harmonious sound, in praising and giving thanks to the
Lord, and in raising
their voice with trumpets and timbrels and musical instruments, and in praising the
Lord that he
is good, that his kindness
is age-abiding, that the building
– the house of the Lord – filled with a cloud.
14And the priests could not stand to serve because of the cloud, because the glory of the
Lord filled the house of God.
Reference(s) in Chapter 5: v.13 ↔ Revelation 15:8.