1 Kings 8:1–9

Then ^aSolomon assembled the elders of Israel, and all the heads of the tribes, the ^†chief of the fathers of the children of Israel, unto king Solomon in Jerusalem, ^bthat they might bring up the ark of the covenant of the Lord ^cout of the city of David, which is Zion. ²And all the men of Israel assembled themselves unto king Solomon at the ^dfeast in the month Ethanim, which is the seventh month. ^3*And all the elders of Israel came, and ^ethe priests took up the ark. ⁴And they brought up the ark of the Lord, ^fand the tabernacle of the congregation, and all the holy vessels that were in the tabernacle, even those did the priests and the Levites bring up. ⁵And king Solomon, and all the congregation of Israel, that were assembled unto him, were with him before the ark, ^gsacrificing sheep and oxen, that could not be told nor numbered for multitude. ⁶And the priests ^bbrought in the ark of the covenant of the Lord unto ^hhis place, into ⁱthe oracle of the house, to the most holy place, even ^kunder the wings of the cherubims. ⁷For the cherubims spread forth their two wings over the place of the ark, and the cherubims covered the ark and the staves thereof above. ⁸And they ^ldrew out the staves, that the ^†ends of the staves were seen out in the ^||holy place before ⁱthe oracle, and they were not seen without: and there they are unto this day. ⁹There was nothing in the ark save ^mthe two tables of stone, which Moses put there at Horeb, ^||when ⁿthe Lord made ^oa covenant with the children of Israel, when they came out of the land of Egypt.