1 Kings 7:40-8:11

New King James Version

Furnishings of the Temple^(A)

^40 (B)Huram^[a] made the lavers and the shovels and the bowls. So Huram finished doing all the work that he was to do for King Solomon for the house of the Lord: ⁴¹ the two pillars, the two bowl-shaped capitals that were on top of the two pillars; the two ^(C)networks covering the two bowl-shaped capitals which were on top of the pillars; ^42 (D)four hundred pomegranates for the two networks (two rows of pomegranates for each network, to cover the two bowl-shaped capitals that were on top of the pillars); ⁴³ the ten carts, and ten lavers on the carts; ⁴⁴ one Sea, and twelve oxen under the Sea; ^45 (E)the pots, the shovels, and the bowls.

All these articles which ^[b]Huram made for King Solomon for the house of the Lord were of burnished bronze. ^46 (F)In the plain of Jordan the king had them cast in clay molds, between ^(G)Succoth and ^(H)Zaretan. ⁴⁷ And Solomon did not weigh all the articles, because there were so many; the weight of the bronze was not ^(I)determined.

⁴⁸ Thus Solomon had all the furnishings made for the house of the Lord: ^(J)the altar of gold, and ^(K)the table of gold on which was ^(L)the showbread; ⁴⁹ the lampstands of pure gold, five on the right side and five on the left in front of the inner sanctuary, with the flowers and the lamps and the wick-trimmers of gold; ⁵⁰ the basins, the trimmers, the bowls, the ladles, and the ^[c]censers of pure gold; and the hinges of gold, both for the doors of the inner room (the Most Holy Place) and for the doors of the main hall of the temple.

⁵¹ So all the work that King Solomon had done for the house of the Lord was finished; and Solomon brought in the things ^(M)which his father David had dedicated: the silver and the gold and the furnishings. He put them in the treasuries of the house of the Lord.

The Ark Brought into the Temple^(N)

8 Now ^(O)Solomon assembled the elders of Israel and all the heads of the tribes, the chief fathers of the children of Israel, to King Solomon in Jerusalem, ^(P)that they might bring ^(Q)up the ark of the covenant of the Lord from the City of David, which is Zion. ² Therefore all the men of Israel assembled with King Solomon at the ^(R)feast in the month of ^[d]Ethanim, which is the seventh month. ³ So all the elders of Israel came, ^(S)and the priests took up the ark. ⁴ Then they brought up the ark of the Lord, ^(T)the ^[e]tabernacle of meeting, and all the holy furnishings that were in the tabernacle. The priests and the Levites brought them up. ⁵ Also King Solomon, and all the congregation of Israel who were assembled with him, were with him before the ark, ^(U)sacrificing sheep and oxen that could not be counted or numbered for multitude. ⁶ Then the priests ^(V)brought in the ark of the covenant of the Lord to ^(W)its place, into the inner sanctuary of the temple, to the Most Holy Place, ^(X)under the wings of the cherubim. ⁷ For the cherubim spread their two wings over the place of the ark, and the cherubim overshadowed the ark and its poles. ⁸ The poles ^(Y)extended so that the ^[f]ends of the poles could be seen from the holy place, in front of the inner sanctuary; but they could not be seen from outside. And they are there to this day. ^9 (Z)Nothing was in the ark ^(AA)except the two tablets of stone which Moses ^(AB)put there at Horeb, ^(AC)when the Lord made a covenant with the children of Israel, when they came out of the land of Egypt.

¹⁰ And it came to pass, when the priests came out of the holy place, that the cloud ^(AD)filled the house of the Lord, ¹¹ so that the priests could not continue ministering because of the cloud; for the ^(AE)glory of the Lord filled the house of the Lord.