 1 All the work that Solomon made for the house of the Lord was finished. And Solomon brought in the things that David his father had dedicated. And he put the silver and the gold, and all the vessels among the treasures of the house of God. 2 Solomon gathered the elders of Israel, and all the heads of the tribes, the chief of the fathers of the children of Israel, to Jerusalem, to bring up the ark of the covenant of the Lord out of the city of David that is Zion. 3 All the men of Israel gathered to the king in the feast in the seventh month. 4 All the elders of Israel came. And the Levites took up the ark. 5 They brought up the ark, and the tabernacle of the congregation, and all the holy vessels that were in the tabernacle. The priests and the Levites brought these up. 6 King Solomon, and all the congregation of Israel that were gathered to him before the ark, sacrificed sheep and oxen that could not be counted nor numbered for multitude. 7 The priests brought in the ark of the covenant of the Lord to its place, to the Holy of Holies in the house, into the most holy place, under the wings of the cherubim. 8 For the cherubim spread out their wings over the ark, and the cherubim covered the ark and its staves above. 9 They drew out the staves so that the ends of the staves were seen from the ark before the oracle. But they were not seen outside. And there it is until this day. 10 Nothing was in the ark except the two tables that Moses put in it at Horeb, when the Lord made a covenant with the children of Israel when they came out of Egypt. 11 As the priests came out of the holy place, for all the priests present were sanctified, and did not wait by division. 12 The Levitical singers, all of them of Asaph, of Heman, of Jeduthun, with their sons and their brothers, being clothed in white linen, having cymbals and with harps and lyres, stood at the east end of the altar, and with them 120 priests sounding with trumpets, 13 and they were as one to the trumpeters and to the singers, to make one sound to be heard in praising and thanking the Lord. And as they lifted up their voice with the trumpets and cymbals and instruments of music, and praised the Lord, saying, For He is good, for His mercy endures forever, the house was filled with a cloud, the house of the Lord, 14 so that the priests could not stand to minister because of the cloud, for the glory of the Lord had filled the house of God.
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