1 Kings 7:51-8:11

New International Version

⁵¹ When all the work King Solomon had done for the temple of the Lord was finished, he brought in the things his father David had dedicated^(A)—the silver and gold and the furnishings^(B)—and he placed them in the treasuries of the Lord’s temple.

The Ark Brought to the Temple^(C)

8 Then King Solomon summoned into his presence at Jerusalem the elders of Israel, all the heads of the tribes and the chiefs^(D) of the Israelite families, to bring up the ark^(E) of the Lord’s covenant from Zion, the City of David.^{(F) 2} All the Israelites came together to King Solomon at the time of the festival^(G) in the month of Ethanim, the seventh month.^(H)

³ When all the elders of Israel had arrived, the priests^(I) took up the ark, ⁴ and they brought up the ark of the Lord and the tent of meeting^(J) and all the sacred furnishings in it. The priests and Levites^(K) carried them up, ⁵ and King Solomon and the entire assembly of Israel that had gathered about him were before the ark, sacrificing^(L) so many sheep and cattle that they could not be recorded or counted.

⁶ The priests then brought the ark of the Lord’s covenant^(M) to its place in the inner sanctuary of the temple, the Most Holy Place,^(N) and put it beneath the wings of the cherubim.^{(O) 7} The cherubim spread their wings over the place of the ark and overshadowed^(P) the ark and its carrying poles. ⁸ These poles were so long that their ends could be seen from the Holy Place in front of the inner sanctuary, but not from outside the Holy Place; and they are still there today.^{(Q) 9} There was nothing in the ark except the two stone tablets^(R) that Moses had placed in it at Horeb, where the Lord made a covenant with the Israelites after they came out of Egypt.

¹⁰ When the priests withdrew from the Holy Place, the cloud^(S) filled the temple of the Lord. ¹¹ And the priests could not perform their service^(T) because of the cloud, for the glory^(U) of the Lord filled his temple.