The Ark Brought into the Temple^(A)

8 Now ^(B)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, ^(C)that they might bring ^(D)up the ark of the covenant of the Lord from the City of David, which is Zion.

The Ark Brought into the Temple^(A)

^2 (B)Now Solomon assembled the elders of Israel and all the heads of the tribes, the chief fathers of the children of Israel, in Jerusalem, that they might bring the ark of the covenant of the Lord up ^(C)from the City of David, which is Zion. ^3 (D)Therefore all the men of Israel assembled with the king ^(E)at the feast, which was in the seventh month. ⁴ So all the elders of Israel came, and the ^(F)Levites took up the ark. ⁵ Then they brought up the ark, the tabernacle of meeting, and all the holy furnishings that were in the tabernacle. The priests and the Levites brought them up. ⁶ Also King Solomon, and all the congregation of Israel who were assembled with him before the ark, were sacrificing sheep and oxen that could not be counted or numbered for multitude. ⁷ Then the priests brought in the ark of the covenant of the Lord to its place, into the ^(G)inner sanctuary of the ^[a]temple, to the Most Holy Place, under the wings of the cherubim. ⁸ For the cherubim spread their wings over the place of the ark, and the cherubim overshadowed the ark and its poles. ⁹ The poles extended so that the ends of the ^(H)poles of the ark could be seen from the holy place, in front of the inner sanctuary; but they could not be seen from outside. And ^[b]they are there to this day. ¹⁰ Nothing was in the ark except the two tablets which Moses ^(I)put there at Horeb, ^[c]when the Lord made a covenant with the children of Israel, when they had come out of Egypt.

²⁵ So ^(A)David, the elders of Israel, and the captains over thousands went to bring up the ark of the covenant of the Lord from the house of Obed-Edom with joy.

¹² Now it was told King David, saying, “The Lord has blessed the house of Obed-Edom and all that belongs to him, because of the ark of God.” ^(A)So David went and brought up the ark of God from the house of Obed-Edom to the City of David with gladness. ¹³ And so it was, when ^(B)those bearing the ark of the Lord had gone six paces, that he sacrificed ^(C)oxen and fatted sheep. ¹⁴ Then David ^(D)danced^[a] before the Lord with all his might; and David was wearing ^(E)a linen ephod. ^15 (F)So David and all the house of Israel brought up the ark of the Lord with shouting and with the sound of the trumpet.

¹⁶ Now as the ark of the Lord came into the City of David, ^(G)Michal, Saul’s daughter, looked through a window and saw King David leaping and whirling before the Lord; and she despised him in her heart. ¹⁷ So ^(H)they brought the ark of the Lord, and set it in ^(I)its place in the midst of the tabernacle that David had erected for it. Then David ^(J)offered burnt offerings and peace offerings before the Lord.

⁶ Therefore it is also contained in the Scripture,

A Cornerstone in Zion

¹⁶ Therefore thus says the Lord God: