歷代志下 5
Chinese Contemporary Bible (Traditional)
5 這樣，所羅門完成了耶和華殿的一切工作。所羅門把他父親大衛獻給上帝的金銀和一切器具都搬進上帝殿的庫房。
運約櫃入聖殿
2 所羅門把以色列的長老、各支派的首領和族長召集到耶路撒冷，準備把耶和華的約櫃從大衛城錫安運上來。 3 在七月住棚節的時候，以色列人都聚集到所羅門王那裡。 4 以色列的長老到齊後，祭司便抬起約櫃， 5 祭司和利未人將約櫃、會幕和會幕裡的一切聖器運上來。 6 所羅門王和聚集到他那裡的以色列全體會眾在約櫃前獻祭，獻上的牛羊多得不可勝數。 7 祭司把耶和華的約櫃抬進內殿，即至聖所，放在兩個基路伯天使的翅膀下面。 8 基路伯天使展開翅膀，遮蓋約櫃和抬約櫃的橫杠。 9 橫杠非常長，在至聖所前面的聖所中也看得見橫杠的末端，但在聖所外面看不見。橫杠至今仍在那裡。 10 約櫃裡除了兩塊石版，沒有別的東西。石版是以色列人離開埃及後，耶和華在何烈山跟他們立約時，摩西放進去的。
耶和華的榮耀
11 隨後，祭司退出聖所，所有在場的祭司不分班次都已潔淨自己。 12 所有負責歌樂的利未人亞薩、希幔、耶杜頓，以及他們的兒子和親族都穿著細麻布衣服，站在祭壇的東邊，敲鈸、鼓瑟、彈琴，同時還有一百二十位祭司吹號。 13 吹號的和歌樂手一起同聲讚美和稱謝耶和華，伴隨著號、鈸及各種樂器的聲音，高聲讚美耶和華：
「祂是美善的，
祂的慈愛永遠長存！」
那時，有雲彩充滿了耶和華的殿， 14 以致祭司不能在殿裡供職，因為殿裡充滿了耶和華上帝的榮光。
2 Chronicles 5
The Message
5 That completed the work King Solomon did on The Temple of God. He then brought in the holy offerings of his father David, the silver and the gold and the artifacts. He placed them all in the treasury of God’s Temple.
Installing the Chest
2-3 Bringing all this to a climax, Solomon got all the leaders together in Jerusalem—all the chiefs of tribes and the family patriarchs—to move the Chest of the Covenant of God from Zion and install it in The Temple. All the men of Israel assembled before the king on the feast day of the seventh month, the Feast of Booths.
4-6 When all the leaders of Israel were ready, the Levites took up the Chest. They carried the Chest, the Tent of Meeting, and all the sacred things in the Tent used in worship. The priests, all Levites, carried them. King Solomon and the entire congregation of Israel were there before the Chest, worshiping and sacrificing huge numbers of sheep and cattle—so many that no one could keep track.
7-10 The priests brought the Chest of the Covenant of God to its place in the Inner Sanctuary, the Holy of Holies, under the wings of the cherubim. The outspread wings of the cherubim formed a canopy over the Chest and its poles. The ends of the poles were so long that they stuck out from the entrance of the Inner Sanctuary, but were not noticeable further out—they’re still there today. There was nothing in the Chest itself but the two stone tablets that Moses had placed in it at Horeb where God made a covenant with Israel after bringing them up from Egypt.
11-13 The priests then left the Holy Place. All the priests there were consecrated, regardless of rank or assignment; and all the Levites who were musicians were there—Asaph, Heman, Jeduthun, and their families, dressed in their worship robes; the choir and orchestra assembled on the east side of the Altar and were joined by 120 priests blowing trumpets. The choir and trumpets made one voice of praise and thanks to God—orchestra and choir in perfect harmony singing and playing praise to God:
Yes! God is good!
His loyal love goes on forever!
13-14 Then a billowing cloud filled The Temple of God. The priests couldn’t even carry out their duties because of the cloud—the glory of God!—that filled The Temple of God.
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