历代志下 5

Chinese Contemporary Bible (Simplified)

5 这样，所罗门完成了耶和华殿的一切工作。所罗门把他父亲大卫献给上帝的金银和一切器具都搬进上帝殿的库房。

运约柜入圣殿

²所罗门把以色列的长老、各支派的首领和族长召集到耶路撒冷，准备把耶和华的约柜从大卫城锡安运上来。 ³在七月住棚节的时候，以色列人都聚集到所罗门王那里。 ⁴以色列的长老到齐后，祭司便抬起约柜， ⁵祭司和利未人将约柜、会幕和会幕里的一切圣器运上来。 ⁶所罗门王和聚集到他那里的以色列全体会众在约柜前献祭，献上的牛羊多得不可胜数。 ⁷祭司把耶和华的约柜抬进内殿，即至圣所，放在两个基路伯天使的翅膀下面。 ⁸基路伯天使展开翅膀，遮盖约柜和抬约柜的横杠。 ⁹横杠非常长，在至圣所前面的圣所中也看得见横杠的末端，但在圣所外面看不见。横杠至今仍在那里。 ¹⁰约柜里除了两块石版，没有别的东西。石版是以色列人离开埃及后，耶和华在何烈山跟他们立约时，摩西放进去的。

耶和华的荣耀

¹¹随后，祭司退出圣所，所有在场的祭司不分班次都已洁净自己。 ¹²所有负责歌乐的利未人亚萨、希幔、耶杜顿，以及他们的儿子和亲族都穿着细麻布衣服，站在祭坛的东边，敲钹、鼓瑟、弹琴，同时还有一百二十位祭司吹号。 ¹³吹号的和歌乐手一起同声赞美和称谢耶和华，伴随着号、钹及各种乐器的声音，高声赞美耶和华：

“祂是美善的，
祂的慈爱永远长存！”

那时，有云彩充满了耶和华的殿， ¹⁴以致祭司不能在殿里供职，因为殿里充满了耶和华上帝的荣光。

2 Chronicles 5

International Children’s Bible

5 Then all the work Solomon had done for the Temple of the Lord was finished. He brought in everything his father David had given for the Temple. He brought in all the silver and gold and all the furniture. And he put everything in the treasuries of God’s Temple.

The Ark of the Covenant Is Carried into the Temple

²Then Solomon called for all the elders of Israel. He asked them to come to him in Jerusalem. He called for all the older leaders, the heads of the tribes and the leaders of the families. He wanted them to bring the Ark of the Covenant with the Lord from the older part of the city. ³All the men of Israel came together with King Solomon. This was during the festival that was held in the seventh month.

⁴All the elders of Israel arrived. Then the Levites picked up the Ark of the Covenant. ⁵The priests and the Levites carried the Ark of the Covenant. They also carried the Meeting Tent and the holy things in it. ⁶King Solomon and all the Israelites met in front of the Ark of the Covenant. They sacrificed so many sheep and bulls no one could count them.

⁷Then the priests put the Ark of the Covenant with the Lord in its place. This was inside the Most Holy Place in the Temple. They put it under the wings of the gold creatures. ⁸The wings of the creatures were spread out over the place for the Ark of the Covenant. They covered it and its carrying poles. ⁹The carrying poles were very long. Anyone standing in the Holy Place in front of the Most Holy Place could see the ends of the poles. But no one could see the poles from outside the Holy Place. The poles are still there today. ¹⁰The only things inside the Ark of the Covenant were two stone tablets.^[a] Moses had put them in the Ark of the Covenant at Mount Sinai. That was where the Lord made an agreement with the Israelites after they came out of Egypt.

¹¹Then all the priests left the Holy Place. All the priests from each group made themselves ready to serve the Lord. ¹²All the Levite musicians stood on the east side of the altar. They were Asaph, Heman, Jeduthun and all their sons and relatives. They were dressed in white linen and played cymbals, lyres and harps. With them were 120 priests who blew trumpets. ¹³Those who blew the trumpets and those who sang together sounded like one person. They praised and thanked the Lord. They sang as they played their trumpets, cymbals and other instruments. They praised the Lord with this song:

“The Lord is good.
His love continues forever.”

Then the Temple of the Lord was filled with a cloud. ¹⁴The priests could not continue their work because of the cloud. This was because the Lord’s glory filled the Temple of God.

Footnotes

5:10 stone tablets They were the two stone tablets on which God wrote the Ten Commandments.

2 Chronicles 5

English Standard Version

5 ^(A)Thus all the work that Solomon did for the house of the Lord was finished. And Solomon brought in the things that David his father had dedicated, and stored the silver, the gold, and all the vessels in the treasuries of the house of God.

The Ark Brought to the Temple

²Then Solomon assembled the elders of Israel and all the heads of the tribes, the leaders of the fathers' houses of the people of Israel, in Jerusalem, to bring up the ark of the covenant of the Lord out of ^(B)the city of David, which is Zion. ³And all the men of Israel assembled before the king at the feast that is in the seventh month. ⁴And all the elders of Israel came, ^(C)and the Levites took up the ark. ⁵And they brought up the ark, the tent of meeting, and all the holy vessels that were in the tent; ^(D)the Levitical priests brought them up. ⁶And King Solomon and all the congregation of Israel, who had assembled before him, were before the ark, sacrificing so many sheep and oxen that they could not be counted or numbered. ⁷Then the priests brought the ark of the covenant of the Lord to its place, in the inner sanctuary of the house, in the Most Holy Place, underneath the wings of the cherubim. ⁸The cherubim spread out their wings over the place of the ark, so that the cherubim made a covering above the ark and its poles. ⁹And the poles were so long that the ends of the poles were seen ^(E)from the Holy Place before the inner sanctuary, but they could not be seen from outside. And they are^[a] there to this day. ¹⁰There was nothing in the ark except the two tablets ^(F)that Moses put there at Horeb, where the Lord made a covenant with the people of Israel, when they came out of Egypt. ¹¹And when the priests came out of the Holy Place (for all the priests who were present had consecrated themselves, without regard to ^(G)their divisions, ¹²and all the Levitical ^(H)singers, ^(I)Asaph, ^(J)Heman, and Jeduthun, their sons and kinsmen, arrayed in fine linen, with ^(K)cymbals, harps, and lyres, stood east of the altar with 120 ^(L)priests who were trumpeters; ¹³and it was the duty of the trumpeters and singers to make themselves heard in unison in praise and thanksgiving to the Lord), and when the song was raised, ^(M)with trumpets and cymbals and other musical instruments, in praise to the Lord,

^(N)“For he is good,
for his steadfast love endures forever,”

the house, the house of the Lord, was filled with a cloud, ¹⁴so that the priests could not stand to minister because of the cloud, ^(O)for the glory of the Lord filled the house of God.