CHAPTER 5
So all
the work
that
Solomon
had performed
for the house
of the LORD
was completed.
Then Solomon
brought
the consecrated items
of his father
David—
the silver,
the gold,
and all
the furnishings—
and he placed them
in the treasuries
of the house
of God.
At that time
Solomon
assembled
at
Jerusalem
the elders
of Israel—
all
the tribal
heads
and family leaders
of the Israelites—
to bring up
the ark
of the covenant
of the LORD
from Zion,
the City
of David.
and they brought up
the ark
and
the Tent
of Meeting
with
all
its
sacred
furnishings.
The Levitical
priests
carried them up.
There, before
the ark,
King
Solomon
and all
the congregation
of Israel
who had assembled
with him
sacrificed
so many
sheep
and oxen
that
they could not
be counted
or numbered.
Then the priests
brought
the ark
of the covenant
of the LORD
to
its place
in
the inner sanctuary
of the temple,
the Most Holy Place,
beneath
the wings
of the cherubim.
For
the cherubim
spread
their wings
over
the place
of the ark
and overshadowed
the ark
and
its poles.
The poles
were so long
that their
ends
could be seen
from
the Holy Place
in
front
of the inner sanctuary,
but not
from outside the Holy Place;
and they are
there
to
this
day.
There was nothing
in the ark
except
the two
tablets
that
Moses
had placed in it
at Horeb,
where
the LORD
had made a covenant
with
the Israelites
after they had come out
of Egypt.
Now
all
the priests
who were present
had consecrated themselves
regardless of
their divisions.
And when
the priests
came out
of
the Holy Place,
all
the Levitical
singers—
Asaph,
Heman,
Jeduthun,
and their sons
and relatives—
stood
on the east side
of the altar,
dressed
in fine linen
and playing cymbals,
harps,
and lyres,
accompanied by
120
priests
sounding
trumpets.
The trumpeters
and singers
joined together
to praise
and thank
the LORD
with one
voice.
They raised
their voices,
accompanied by trumpets,
cymbals,
and musical
instruments,
in praise
to the LORD:
“For
He is good;
His loving devotion endures forever.”
Then the temple,
the house
of the LORD,
was filled
with a cloud
so that the priests
could
not
stand there
to minister
because
of the cloud;
for
the glory
of the LORD
filled
the house
of God.