1 Kings 8:1–11

The Ark Brought into the Temple

8Now ^aSolomon assembled the elders of Israel and all the heads of the tribes, the chief fathers of the children of Israel, to King Solomon in Jerusalem, ^bthat they might bring ^cup the ark of the covenant of the Lord from the City of David, which is Zion. ²Therefore all the men of Israel assembled with King Solomon at the ^dfeast in the month of ¹Ethanim, which is the seventh month. ³So all the elders of Israel came, ^eand the priests took up the ark. ⁴Then they brought up the ark of the Lord, ^fthe ²tabernacle of meeting, and all the holy furnishings that were in the tabernacle. The priests and the Levites brought them up. ⁵Also King Solomon, and all the congregation of Israel who were assembled with him, were with him before the ark, ^gsacrificing sheep and oxen that could not be counted or numbered for multitude. ⁶Then the priests ^hbrought in the ark of the covenant of the Lord to ⁱits place, into the inner sanctuary of the temple, to the Most Holy Place, ^junder the wings of the cherubim. ⁷For the cherubim spread their two wings over the place of the ark, and the cherubim overshadowed the ark and its poles. ⁸The poles ^kextended so that the ³ends of the poles could be seen from the holy place, in front of the inner sanctuary; but they could not be seen from outside. And they are there to this day. ^9lNothing was in the ark ^mexcept the two tablets of stone which Moses ⁿput there at Horeb, ^owhen the Lord made a covenant with the children of Israel, when they came out of the land of Egypt.

¹⁰And it came to pass, when the priests came out of the holy place, that the cloud ^pfilled the house of the Lord, ¹¹so that the priests could not continue ministering because of the cloud; for the ^qglory of the Lord filled the house of the Lord.