2 Chronicles 5
1 And Solomon brought in the holy
things of his father David, the silver, and the gold, and the
other vessels, and put them in the treasury of the
house of the Lord.
2 Then Solomon assembled all the
elders of Israel, and all the heads of the tribes,
even the leaders of the families of the children of
Israel, to Jerusalem, to bring up the ark of the covenant of the Lord out of
the city of David,—this is Sion.
3 And all Israel were assembled
unto the king in the feast, this
is the seventh month.
4 And all the elders of Israel came;
and all the Levites took up the ark,
5 and the tabernacle of witness, and
all the holy vessels that were in the tabernacle; and the priests and the
Levites brought it up. 6 And king
Solomon, and all the elders of Israel, and the religious of them, and they of
them that were gathered before the ark,
were sacrificing calves and sheep, which could not be
numbered or reckoned for multitude.
7 And the priests brought in the ark
of the covenant of the Lord into its place, into the oracle of the house,
even into the holy of holies, under the wings of the
cherubs. 8 And the cherubs stretched
out their wings over the place of the ark, and the cherubs covered the ark,
and its staves above. 9 And the staves
projected, and the heads of the staves were seen from the holy place in front
of the oracle, they were not seen without: and there they were to this day.
10 There was nothing in the ark
except the two tables which Moses placed there in
Choreb, which God gave in covenant with the children of Israel, when they went
out of the land of Egypt.
11 And it came to pass, when the
priests went out of the holy place, (for all the priests that were found were
sanctified, they were not then arranged according to
their daily course,) 12 that all the
singing Levites assigned to the sons of Asaph, to
Æman, to Idithun, and to his sons, and to his brethren, of them that were
clothed in linen garments, with cymbals and lutes and harps,
were standing before the altar, and with them a
hundred and twenty priests, blowing trumpets.
13 And there was one voice in the
trumpeting and in the psalm-singing, and in the loud utterance with one voice
to give thanks and praise the Lord; and when they raised their voice together
with trumpets and cymbals, and instruments of music, and said, Give thanks to
the Lord, for it is good, for his mercy
endures for ever:—then the house was filled with the
cloud of the glory of the Lord.
14 And the priests could not stand to
minister because of the cloud: for the glory of the Lord filled the house of
God.