^2 (A)Then Solomon assembled at Jerusalem the elders of Israel, all the heads of the tribes, and the leaders of the fathers’ households of the sons of Israel, ^(B)to bring the ark of the covenant of the Lord up from the city of David, which is Zion. ^3 (C)All the men of Israel assembled themselves before the king at ^(D)the feast, that is in the seventh month. ⁴ Then all the elders of Israel came, and ^(E)the Levites picked up the ark. ⁵ They brought up the ark, the tent of meeting, and all the holy utensils that were in the tent. The Levitical priests brought them up. ⁶ And King Solomon and all the congregation of Israel who had assembled with him before the ark were sacrificing ^[a]so many sheep and oxen that they could not be counted or numbered. ⁷ Then the priests brought the ark of the covenant of the Lord to its place, into the inner sanctuary of the house, to the Most Holy Place, under the wings of the cherubim. ⁸ For the cherubim spread their wings over the place of the ark, so that the cherubim made a covering over the ark and its ^[b]poles. ⁹ The poles were so long that ^(F)the ends of the poles of the ark could be seen in front of the inner sanctuary, but they could not be seen outside; and ^[c]they are there to this day. ^10 (G)There was nothing in the ark except the two tablets which Moses put there at Horeb, where the Lord made a covenant with the sons of Israel, when they came out of Egypt.