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Then Solomon gathered the elders of Israel, and all the heads of the tribes, rulers of the fathers of the sons of Israel, to Jerusalem, to bring up the ark of the covenant of Jehovah from the city of David; it is Zion.

And all the men of Israel were gathered to the king in the feast; it was the seventh month.

And all the elders of Israel came in, and the Levites lifted up the ark,

and they brought up the ark, and the tabernacle of the congregation, and all the holy utensils that were in the tabernacle; the Levitical priests brought them up.

And King Solomon and all the company of Israel who were assembled to him before the ark were sacrificing sheep and oxen, that could not be counted nor numbered for multitude.

And the priest brought in the ark of the covenant of Jehovah to its place, to the sanctuary of the house, to the Holy of Holies, to the place of the wings of the cherubs;

and the cherubs spread out wings over the place under the ark, and the cherubs covered the ark and its staves from above;

and so long were the staves, that the heads of the staves could be seen from the ark before the oracle; but they were not seen outside. And there it is to this day.

Nothing was in the ark but the two tablets that Moses gave in Horeb, where Jehovah cut a covenant with the sons of Israel when they came out from Egypt.

And it happened as the priests were going from the sanctuary (for all the priests who were present had sanctified themselves without observing divisions),

and the Levitical singers to all of them, to Asaph, to Heman, to Jeduthun, and to their sons and to their brothers, clothed in fine linen, with cymbals, and with harps and lyres, were standing on the east of the altar, and with them a hundredand twenty priests blowing with trumpets.

And they were as one to the trumpeters, and to the singers to cause one sound to be heard to praise and to thank Jehovah. And when they lifted up their voice with the trumpets andcymbals and instruments of music, and praisedJehovah, saying , For He is good; for his mercy endures forever; and a cloud filled the house, the house of Jehovah;

so that the priests could not stand to minister because of the cloud; for the glory of Jehovah had filled the house of God.