1The temple finished, and the dedicated treasures deposited therein. 2The ark with great solemnity brought into the most holy place. 11Whilst the priests and Levites are praising God with singing and music, a cloud filleth the house.
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1Thus all the work that Solomon made for the house of the Lord was 1finished: and Solomon brought in all the things that David his father had dedicated; and the 2silver, and the gold, and all the instruments, put he among the treasures of the house of God.
2¶ Then 1Solomon 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 Lord2out of the city of David, which is Zion.
3Wherefore all the men of Israel assembled themselves unto the king 1in the feast which was in the seventh month.
4And all the elders of Israel came; and the 1Levites took up the ark.
5And 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 and1the Levites bring up.
6Also 1king 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.
7And the 1priests brought in the ark of the covenant of the Lord unto his place, to 2the oracle of the house, into the most holy place, even under the wings of the cherubims:
8For the cherubims spread forth their wings over the place of the ark, and the cherubims covered the ark and 1the staves thereof above.
9And 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 athere it is unto this day.
10there was nothing in the ark save 1the two tables which Moses put therein at Horeb, awhen 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 wereapresent were 1sanctified, and did not then wait 2by course:
12Also 1the Levites which were the singers, all of them of Asaph, of Heman, of Jeduthun, with their sons and their brethren, being arrayed in 2white 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 3trumpets:)
13It came even to pass, as the trumpeters and singers were as one, to make 1one sound to be heard in praising and thanking the Lord; and when they lifted up their voice with 2the trumpets and cymbals and instruments of musick, and praised the Lord, saying, 3For he is good; for his mercy endureth for ever: that then the house was filled with a cloud, even the house of the Lord;
14So 1that the priests could not stand to minister by reason of the cloud: for the glory of the Lord had filled the house of God.