5 So, 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, with the silver and the gold and all the vessels and put them among the treasures of the House of God.

² Then Solomon assembled the elders of Israel and all the heads of the tribes—the chief fathers of the children of Israel—to Jerusalem, to bring up the Ark of the Covenant of the LORD from the City of David (which is Zion).

³ And all the men of Israel assembled to the king at the Feast. It was in the seventh month.

⁴ And all the elders of Israel came. And the Levites took up the Ark.

⁵ And they carried up the Ark and the Tabernacle of the Congregation and all the holy vessels that were in the Tabernacle. The priests and Levites brought those up.

⁶ And King Solomon and all the Congregation of Israel who were assembled to him were before the Ark, offering sheep and bullocks which could not be told nor numbered for multitude.

⁷ So, the priests brought the Ark of the Covenant of the LORD to its place, into the Oracle of the House, into the Most Holy Place, under the wings of the Cherubim.

⁸ For the Cherubim stretched out their wings over the place of the Ark. And the Cherubim covered the Ark and its poles above.

⁹ And they extended the poles, so that the ends of the poles might be seen out of the Ark, in front of the Oracle. But they were not seen outside. And they are there to this day.

¹⁰ Nothing was in the Ark except the two Tables which Moses gave at Horeb, where the LORD made a Covenant with the children of Israel when they came out of Egypt.

¹¹ And when the priests had come out of the Sanctuary (for all the priests who were present were sanctified and did not wait by divisions),

¹² and the Levites (the singers of all sorts) —Asaph, of Heman, of Jeduthun, and of their sons and of their brethren, being clad in fine linen—they stood with cymbals and with viols and harps at the eastern end of the Altar, and with them a hundred twenty priests, blowing with trumpets.

¹³ And they were as one, blowing trumpets and singing and making one sound to be heard in praising and thanking the LORD, lifting up their voices with trumpets and with cymbals and with instruments of music and praising the LORD, singing, “For He is good, because His mercy endures forever.” Then the House, the House of the LORD, was filled with a cloud,

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.