[1] Thus all the work that Solomon did for the house of the LORD was
finished. And Solomon brought in the things which David his father had
dedicated, and stored the silver, the gold, and all the vessels in the
treasuries of the house of God. [2] Then Solomon assembled the elders of
Israel and all the heads of the tribes, the leaders of the fathers' houses
of the people of Israel, in Jerusalem, to bring up the ark of the covenant
of the LORD out of the city of David, which is Zion. [3] And all the men of
Israel assembled before the king at the feast which is in the seventh
month. [4] And all the elders of Israel came, and the Levites took up the
ark. [5] And they brought up the ark, the tent of meeting, and all the holy
vessels that were in the tent; the priests and the Levites brought them up.
[6] And King Solomon and all the congregation of Israel, who had assembled
before him, were before the ark, sacrificing so many sheep and oxen that
they could not be counted or numbered. [7] So the priests brought the ark
of the covenant of the LORD to its place, in the inner sanctuary of the
house, in the most holy place, underneath the wings of the cherubim. [8]
For the cherubim spread out their wings over the place of the ark, so that
the cherubim made a covering above the ark and its poles. [9] And the poles
were so long that the ends of the poles were seen from the holy place
before the inner sanctuary; but they could not be seen from outside; and
they are there to this day. [10] There was nothing in the ark except the
two tables which Moses put there at Horeb, where the LORD made a covenant
with the people of Israel, when they came out of Egypt. [11] Now when the
priests came out of the holy place (for all the priests who were present
had sanctified themselves, without regard to their divisions; [12] and all
the Levitical singers, Asaph, Heman, and Jedu'thun, their sons and kinsmen,
arrayed in fine linen, with cymbals, harps, and lyres, stood east of the
altar with a hundred and twenty priests who were trumpeters; [13] and it
was the duty of the trumpeters and singers to make themselves heard in
unison in praise and thanksgiving to the LORD), and when the song was
raised, with trumpets and cymbals and other musical instruments, in praise
to the LORD, "For he is good, for his steadfast love endures for ever," the
house, the house of the LORD, was filled with a cloud, [14] so that the
priests could not stand to minister because of the cloud; for the glory of
the LORD filled the house of God.
