⁴ The pivots^[a] on the thresholds shook at the voices of those who called, and the house filled with smoke.

⁸ and the temple was filled with smoke from the glory of God and from his power, and no one could enter the temple until the seven plagues of the seven angels were ended.^(A)

The Destruction of Israel

9 I saw the Lord standing beside^[a] the altar, and he said:

¹⁹ Then God’s temple in heaven was opened, and the ark of his covenant was seen within his temple, and there were flashes of lightning, rumblings, peals of thunder, an earthquake, and heavy hail.^(A)

⁵ The sound of the wings of the cherubim was heard as far as the outer court, like the voice of God Almighty^[a] when he speaks.^(A)

²⁴ When they moved, I heard the sound of their wings like the sound of mighty waters, like the thunder of the Almighty,^[a] a sound of tumult like the sound of an army; when they stopped, they let down their wings.^(A)

¹³ It was the duty of the trumpeters and singers together to make themselves heard in unison in praise and thanksgiving to the Lord, and when the song was raised, with trumpets and cymbals and other musical instruments, in praise to the Lord,

the house, the house of the Lord, was filled with a cloud,^{(A) 14} so that the priests could not stand to minister because of the cloud, for the glory of the Lord filled the house of God.^(B)

Dedication of the Temple

6 Then Solomon said, “The Lord has said that he would reside in thick darkness.^(C)

¹⁰ And when the priests came out of the holy place, a cloud filled the house of the Lord,^{(A) 11} so that the priests could not stand to minister because of the cloud, for the glory of the Lord filled the house of the Lord.

¹² Then Solomon said,