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all the work that Solomon did for the House of the Lord was finished. Then Solomon brought in the things that David his father had dedicated—the silver, the gold, and all the utensils, and he put them in the treasuries of God’s temple.
2 Then Solomon assembled the elders of Israel at Jerusalem—all the heads of the tribes and the chiefs of the Israelite families, the chiefs of the families of the Israelites, in Jerusalem, to bring the ark of the Lord’s covenant out of the City of David, that is, Zion. 3 So all the men of Israel came together to the king at the time of the feast in the seventh month.
4 All the elders of Israel came, and the Levites took up the ark, 5 and they brought up the ark and the Tent of Meeting, along with all the sacred utensils that were in the tent. It was the priests and the Levites who carried them up. 6 King Solomon and the entire congregation of Israel who had gathered around him were before the ark, sacrificing so many sheep and oxen that they could not be counted or numbered because there were so many.
7 The priests then brought the ark of the Lord’s covenant to its place in the inner sanctuary of the temple, to the Most Holy Place, and placed it in beneath the wings of the cherubim. 8 The cherubim spread their wings over the place of the ark, so that the cherubim formed a covering over the ark and its carrying poles. 9 The poles were so long that their ends could be seen from in front of the inner sanctuary, but they could not be seen from outside; and they are still there to this day. 10 There was nothing in the ark except the two tablets that Moses had placed in it at Horeb, where the Lord had made a covenant with the Israelites when they came out of Egypt.
11 The priests then came out of the Holy Place. All the priests who were there had consecrated themselves, regardless of their divisions. 12 All the Levitical musicians and singers of Asaph, Heman, Jebuthun, and of their sons and relatives were dressed in fine linen and standing on the east side of the altar with cymbals, harps, and lyres. They were accompanied by a hundred and twenty priests sounding trumpets. 13 The trumpeters and singers joined together in unison, to be heard as one voice praising and thanking the Lord. They raised their voices in praise to the Lord, with trumpets and cymbals and other instruments of music:
“For He is good;
His faithful love endures forever.”
Then the temple, the House of the Lord, was filled with a cloud, 14 so that the priests could not stand to minister because of the cloud, for the glory of the Lord filled God’s temple.