1 Kings 8:1-9

New American Standard Bible

The Ark Brought into the Temple

8 ^(A)Then Solomon assembled the elders of Israel and all ^(B)the heads of the tribes, the leaders of the fathers’ households of the sons of Israel, to King Solomon in Jerusalem, ^(C)to bring up the ark of the covenant of the Lord from ^(D)the city of David, that is, Zion. ² So all the men of Israel assembled themselves before King Solomon at ^(E)the feast, in the month Ethanim, that is, the seventh month. ³ Then all the elders of Israel came, and ^(F)the priests took up the ark. ⁴ And they brought up the ark of the Lord, ^(G)the tent of meeting, and all the holy utensils which were in the tent; the priests and the Levites brought them up. ⁵ And King Solomon and all the congregation of Israel, who were gathered together to him, ^(H)were with him before the ark, sacrificing ^[a]so many sheep and oxen that they could not be counted or numbered. ⁶ Then ^(I)the priests brought the ark of the covenant of the Lord ^(J)to its place, into the inner sanctuary of the house, to the Most Holy Place, ^(K)under the wings of the cherubim. ⁷ For the cherubim spread their wings over the place of the ark, and the cherubim made a covering over the ark and its carrying poles from above. ⁸ But ^(L)the poles were so long that the ends of the poles could be seen from the holy place in front of the inner sanctuary, but they could not be seen outside; they are there to this day. ^9 (M)There was nothing in the ark except the two tablets of stone which Moses put there at Horeb, where ^(N)the Lord made a covenant with the sons of Israel, when they came out of the land of Egypt.