2 Chronicles 5
1 So all the work Solomon had done for the house of the LORD was completed. Solomon brought in the things his father David had dedicated—the silver, the gold, and all the utensils—and placed them in the treasuries of the house of God.
2 Then Solomon assembled in Jerusalem the elders of Israel and all the tribal leaders, the heads of the Israelite families, to bring up the ark of the covenant of the LORD from the City of David, which is Zion.
3 All the men of Israel gathered before the king at the festival in the seventh month.
4 When all the elders of Israel had arrived, the Levites lifted the ark.
5 They brought up the ark, the tent of meeting, and all the sacred utensils that were in the tent; the Levitical priests carried them.
6 King Solomon and the whole assembly of Israel gathered before him were in front of the ark, sacrificing sheep and cattle in such great numbers that they could not be counted or measured.
7 The priests brought the ark of the covenant of the LORD to its place, into the inner sanctuary of the house, the Most Holy Place, beneath the wings of the cherubim.
8 The cherubim spread their wings over the place where the ark stood and covered the ark and its poles from above.
9 The poles were so long that their ends could be seen from the ark in front of the inner sanctuary, but they could not be seen from outside; they are still there to this day.
10 There was nothing in the ark except the two tablets that Moses had placed there at Horeb, where the LORD made a covenant with the Israelites when they came out of Egypt.
11 When the priests came out of the holy place, all the priests present had consecrated themselves, without regard to their divisions.
12 All the Levite singers—Asaph, Heman, and Jeduthun, with their sons and brothers—stood east of the altar, dressed in fine linen, with cymbals, harps, and lyres. With them were 120 priests sounding trumpets.
13 The trumpeters and singers joined together as one to make one voice heard in praise and thanksgiving to the LORD. As they raised their voices with trumpets, cymbals, and musical instruments, praising the LORD because he is good and his faithful love endures forever, the cloud filled the house, the house of the LORD.
14 The priests could not stand to serve because of the cloud, for the glory of the LORD had filled the house of God.
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