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Thus all
the work that Solomon made for the house of the
Lord was finished: and Solomon brought in all the
things that David his father had dedicated; and
the silver, and the gold, and all the
instruments, put he among the treasures of the
house of God.
02 Then Solomon assembled the elders of Israel,
and all the heads of the tribes, the chief of the
fathers of the children of Israel, unto
Jerusalem, to bring up the ark of the covenant of
the Lord out of the city of David, which is Zion.
03 Wherefore all the men of Israel assembled
themselves unto the king in the feast which was
in the seventh month.
04 And all the elders of Israel came; and the
Levites took up the ark.
05 And they brought up the ark, and the
tabernacle of the congregation, and all the holy
vessels that were in the tabernacle, these did
the priests and the Levites bring up.
06 Also king Solomon, and all the congregation of
Israel that were assembled unto him before the
ark, sacrificed sheep and oxen, which could not
be told nor numbered for multitude.
07 And the priests brought in the ark of the
covenant of the Lord unto his place, to the
oracle of the house, into the most holy place,
even under the wings of the cherubims:
08 For the cherubims spread forth their wings
over the place of the ark, and the cherubims
covered the ark and the staves thereof above.
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09 And they drew out the staves of the ark, that
the ends of the staves were seen from the ark
before the oracle; but they were not seen
without. And there it is unto this day.
10 There was nothing in the ark save the two
tables which Moses put therein at Horeb, when the
Lord made a covenant with the children of Israel,
when they came out of Egypt.
11 And it came to pass, when the priests were
come out of the holy place: (for all the priests
that were present were sanctified, and did not
then wait by course:
12 Also the Levites which were the singers, all
of them of Asaph, of Heman, of Jeduthun, with
their sons and their brethren, being arrayed in
white linen, having cymbals and psalteries and
harps, stood at the east end of the altar, and
with them an hundred and twenty priests sounding
with trumpets:)
13 It came even to pass, as the trumpeters and
singers were as one, to make one sound to be
heard in praising and thanking the Lord; and when
they lifted up their voice with the trumpets and
cymbals and instruments of music, and praised the
Lord, saying, For he is good; for his mercy
endureth for ever: that then the house was filled
with a cloud, even the house of the Lord;
14 So that the priests could not stand to
minister by reason of the cloud: for the glory of
the Lord had filled the house of God.
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