[1] Thus all the work that Solomon did for the house of Yahweh was
finished. Solomon brought in the things that David his father had
dedicated, even the silver, and the gold, and all the vessels, and put them
in the treasuries of the house of God. [2] Then Solomon assembled the
elders of Israel, and all the heads of the tribes, the princes of the
fathers` [houses] of the children of Israel, to Jerusalem, to bring up the
ark of the covenant of Yahweh out of the city of David, which is Zion. [3]
nd all the men of Israel assembled themselves to the king at the feast,
which was [in] the seventh month. [4] All the elders of Israel came: and
the Levites took up the ark; [5] and they brought up the ark, and the tent
of meeting, and all the holy vessels that were in the Tent; these did the
priests the Levites bring up. [6] King Solomon and all the congregation of
Israel, that were assembled to him, were before the ark, sacrificing sheep
and oxen, that could not be counted nor numbered for multitude. [7] The
priests brought in the ark of the covenant of Yahweh to its place, into the
oracle of the house, to the most holy place, even under the wings of the
cherubim. [8] For the cherubim spread forth their wings over the place of
the ark, and the cherubim covered the ark and the poles of it above. [9]
The poles were so long that the ends of the poles were seen from the ark
before the oracle; but they were not seen outside: and there it is to this
day. [10] There was nothing in the ark save the two tables which Moses put
[there] at Horeb, when Yahweh made a covenant with the children of Israel,
when they came out of Egypt. [11] It happened, when the priests were come
out of the holy place, (for all the priests who were present had sanctified
themselves, and did not keep their courses; [12] also the Levites who were
the singers, all of them, even Asaph, Heman, Jeduthun, and their sons and
their brothers, arrayed in fine linen, with cymbals and psalteries and
harps, stood at the east end of the altar, and with them one hundred twenty
priests sounding with trumpets;) [13] it happened, when the trumpeters and
singers were as one, to make one sound to be heard in praising and thanking
Yahweh; and when they lifted up their voice with the trumpets and cymbals
and instruments of music, and praised Yahweh, [saying], For he is good; for
his lovingkindness endures forever; that then the house was filled with a
cloud, even the house of Yahweh, [14] so that the priests could not stand
to minister by reason of the cloud: for the glory of Yahweh filled the
house of God.
