1 Kings 8:1-11
1599 Geneva Bible
8 4 The Ark is borne into the Temple. 10 A cloud filleth the Temple. 14 The king blesseth the people.
1 Then King Solomon assembled (A)the Elders of Israel, even all the heads of the tribes, the chief fathers of the children of Israel unto [a]him in Jerusalem, for to [b]bring up the Ark of the covenant of the Lord from the city of David, which is Zion.
2 And all the men of Israel assembled unto King Solomon at the feast in the month of [c]Ethanim, which is the seventh month.
3 And all the Elders of Israel came, and the Priests took the Ark.
4 They bare the Ark of the Lord, and they bare the Tabernacle of the Congregation, and all the holy vessels that were in the Tabernacle: those did the Priests and Levites bring up.
5 And King Solomon and all the Congregation of Israel that were assembled unto him, were with him before the Ark, offering sheep and beeves, which could not be told, nor numbered for multitude.
6 So the [d]Priests brought the Ark of the Covenant of the Lord unto his place, into the oracle of the house into the most holy place, even under the wings of the Cherubims.
7 For the Cherubims stretched out their wings over the place of the Ark, and the Cherubims covered the Ark, and the bars thereof above.
8 And they [e]drew out the bars, that the ends of the bars might appear out of the Sanctuary before the oracle, but they were not seen without: and there they are unto this day.
9 Nothing was in the Ark [f]save the two tables of stone which Moses had put there at Horeb, where the Lord made a covenant with the children of Israel, when he brought them out of the land of Egypt.
10 And when the Priests were come out of the Sanctuary, the (B)cloud filled the house of the Lord,
11 So that the Priests could not stand to minister, because of the cloud: for the glory of the Lord had filled the house of the Lord.
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- 1 Kings 8:1 Hebrew, Solomon.
- 1 Kings 8:1 For David brought it from Obed-edom, and placed it in the Tabernacle which he had made for it, 2 Sam. 6:17.
- 1 Kings 8:2 Containing part of September and part of October in the which month they held three solemn feasts, Num. 29:1.
- 1 Kings 8:6 That is, the Kohathites, Num. 4:5.
- 1 Kings 8:8 They drew them only out so far as they might be seen: for they might not pull them altogether out, Exod. 25:15.
- 1 Kings 8:9 For it is like that the enemies when they had the Ark in their hands, took away the rod of Aaron and the pot with Manna.
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