1Thus all the work that Solomon wrought for the house of Jehovah was finished . And 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 . 2Then Solomon assembled the elders of Israel , and all the heads of the tribes , the princes of the fathers’ houses of the children of Israel , unto Jerusalem , to bring up the ark of the covenant of Jehovah out of the city of David , which is Zion . 3And all the men of Israel assembled themselves unto the king at the feast , which was in the seventh month . 4And all the elders of Israel came : and the Levites took up the ark; 5and 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 . 6And king Solomon and all the congregation of Israel , that were assembled unto him , were before the ark, sacrificing sheep and oxen , that could not be counted nor numbered for multitude . 7And the priests brought in the ark of the covenant of Jehovah unto its place , into the oracle of the house , to the most holy place , even under the wings of the cherubim . 8For the cherubim spread forth their wings over the place of the ark, and the cherubim covered the ark and the staves thereof above . 9And the staves were so long that the ends of the staves were seen from the ark before the oracle ; but they were not seen without : and there it is unto this day . 10There was nothing in the ark save the two tables which Moses put there at Horeb , when Jehovah made a covenant with the children of Israel , when they came out of Egypt .
The Glory of the Lord Fills the Temple
11And it came to pass , when the priests were come out of the holy place ( for all the priests that were present had sanctified themselves , and did not keep their courses ; 12also the Levites who were the singers , all of them , even Asaph, Heman , Jeduthun , and their sons and their brethren, arrayed in fine linen, with cymbals and psalteries and harps , stood at the east end of the altar , and with them a hundred and twenty priests sounding with trumpets ); 13it came to pass , when the trumpeters and singers were as one , to make one sound to be heard in praising and thanking Jehovah ; and when they lifted up their voice with the trumpets and cymbals and instruments of music , and praised Jehovah , saying , For he is good ; for his lovingkindness endureth for ever ; that then the house was filled with a cloud , even the house of Jehovah , 14so that the priests could not stand to minister by reason of the cloud : for the glory of Jehovah filled the house of God .