Dual Panel1When all the work which Solomon did for the house of the LORD was completed, he brought in the treasures dedicated by his father David, the silver, the gold, and the vessels, and deposited them in the treasuries of the house of God.
2THEN Solomon summoned the elders of Israel, and all the heads of the tribes who were chiefs of families in Israel, to assemble in Jerusalem, in order to bring up the Ark of the Covenant of the LORD from the City of David, which is called Zion.
3All the men of Israel were assembled in the king's presence at the pilgrim-feast in the seventh month.
4When the elders of Israel had all arrived, the Levites lifted the Ark
5and carried it up; the Tent of Meeting and all the sacred furnishings of the Tent were carried by the priests and the Levites.
6King Solomon and the whole congregation of Israel assembled with him before the Ark sacrificed sheep and oxen in numbers past counting or reckoning.
7The priests brought in the Ark of the Covenant of the LORD to its place, in the inner shrine of the house, the Most Holy Place, beneath the wings of the cherubim.
8The cherubim, whose wings were spread over the place of the Ark, formed a canopy above the Ark and its poles.
9The poles projected, and their ends were visible from the Holy Place immediately in front of the inner shrine, but from nowhere else outside; they are there to this day.
10There was nothing inside the Ark but the two tablets which Moses had put there at Horeb, when the LORD made the covenant with the Israelites after they left Egypt.
11When the priests came out of the Holy Place (for all the priests who were present had hallowed themselves without keeping to their divisions),
12all the levitical singers, Asaph, Heman, and Jeduthun, their sons, and their kinsmen, attired in fine linen, stood with cymbals, lutes, and lyres to the east of the altar, together with a hundred and twenty priests who blew trumpets.
13Now the trumpeters and the singers joined in unison to sound forth praise and thanksgiving to the LORD, and the song was raised with trumpets, cymbals, and musical instruments, in praise of the LORD, because “it is good, for his love endures for ever”; and the house was filled with the cloud of the glory of the LORD.
14The priests could not continue to minister because of the cloud, for the glory of the LORD filled the house of God.