2Chronicles 5
5When all the work Solomon had done for the temple of the LORD was finished, he brought in the things his father David had dedicated—the silver and gold and all the furnishings—and he placed them in the treasuries of God's temple.H4399H8010H6213H1004H3068H7999H8010H935H6944H1732H1H6944H3701H2091H3627H5414H214H1004H4302Then Solomon summoned to Jerusalem the elders of Israel, all the heads of the tribes and the chiefs of the Israelite families, to bring up the ark of the LORD's covenant from Zion, the City of David.H8010H6950H2205H3478H7218H4294H5387H1H1121H3478H3389H5927H727H1285H3068H5892H1732H67263And all the Israelites came together to the king at the time of the festival in the seventh month.H376H3478H6950H4428H2282H7637H23204When all the elders of Israel had arrived, the Levites took up the ark,H2205H3478H935H3881H5375H7275and they brought up the ark and the tent of meeting and all the sacred furnishings in it. The Levitical priests carried them up;H5927H727H168H4150H6944H3627H168H3548H3881H59276and King Solomon and the entire assembly of Israel that had gathered about him were before the ark, sacrificing so many sheep and cattle that they could not be recorded or counted.H4428H8010H5712H3478H3259H6440H727H2076H6629H1241H5608H4487H72307The priests then brought the ark of the LORD's covenant to its place in the inner sanctuary of the temple, the Most Holy Place, and put it beneath the wings of the cherubim.H3548H935H727H1285H3068H4725H1687H1004H6944H6944H3671H37428The cherubim spread their wings over the place of the ark and covered the ark and its carrying poles.H3742H6566H3671H4725H727H3742H3680H727H905H46059These poles were so long that their ends, extending from the ark, could be seen from in front of the inner sanctuary, but not from outside the Holy Place; and they are still there today.H748H905H7218H905H7200H727H6440H1687H7200H2351H311710There was nothing in the ark except the two tablets that Moses had placed in it at Horeb, where the LORD made a covenant with the Israelites after they came out of Egypt.H727H8147H3871H4872H5414H2722H3068H3772H1121H3478H3318H471411The priests then withdrew from the Holy Place. All the priests who were there had consecrated themselves, regardless of their divisions.H3548H3318H6944H3548H4672H6942H8104H425612All the Levites who were musicians—Asaph, Heman, Jeduthun and their sons and relatives—stood on the east side of the altar, dressed in fine linen and playing cymbals, harps and lyres. They were accompanied by 120 priests sounding trumpets.H3881H7891H623H1968H3038H1121H251H3847H948H4700H5035H3658H5975H4217H4196H3967H6242H3548H2690H268913The trumpeters and musicians joined in unison to give praise and thanks to the LORD. Accompanied by trumpets, cymbals and other instruments, the singers raised their voices in praise to the LORD and sang: "He is good; his love endures forever." Then the temple of the LORD was filled with the cloud,H2690H2690H7891H259H259H6963H8085H1984H3034H3068H7311H6963H2689H4700H3627H7892H1984H3068H2896H2617H5769H1004H4390H6051H1004H306814and the priests could not perform their service because of the cloud, for the glory of the LORD filled the temple of God.H3548H3201H5975H8334H6440H6051H3519H3068H4390H1004H430
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