2 Chronicles 5

¹ When all the work Solomon had done for the house of the LORD was finished, he brought in the things his father David had dedicated—the silver, the gold, and all the articles—and placed them in the treasuries of the house of God.

² Then Solomon assembled the elders of Israel, all the heads of the tribes, and the chiefs of the ancestral houses of the Israelites to Jerusalem, to bring up the ark of the covenant of the LORD from the city of David, which is Zion.

³ All the men of Israel assembled before the king at the festival in the seventh month.

⁴ When all the elders of Israel arrived, the Levites lifted up the ark.

⁵ They brought up the ark and the tent of meeting and all the holy articles that were in the tent. The Levitical priests brought them up.

⁶ King Solomon and all the congregation of Israel who had assembled before him were before the ark, sacrificing sheep and cattle so many that they could not be counted or numbered.

⁷ Then the priests brought the ark of the covenant of the LORD to its place in the inner sanctuary of the house, to the most holy place, under the wings of the cherubim.

⁸ The cherubim spread their wings over the place of the ark, so that the cherubim covered the ark and its poles from above.

⁹ The poles were so long that their ends could be seen from the holy place in front of the inner sanctuary, but they could not be seen from outside. They are there to this day.

¹⁰ There was nothing in the ark except the two tablets that Moses had placed in it at Horeb, where the LORD made a covenant with the Israelites when they came out of Egypt.

¹¹ Now when the priests came out of the holy place—for all the priests who were present had consecrated themselves regardless of their divisions—

¹² and all the Levitical singers—Asaph, Heman, Jeduthun, and their sons and relatives—dressed in fine linen, stood east of the altar with cymbals, harps, and lyres, along with 120 priests sounding trumpets—

¹³ when the trumpeters and singers joined as one to praise and thank the LORD, and when they lifted up their voices with the trumpets and cymbals and instruments of music and praised the LORD saying,
"For he is good,
for his faithful love endures forever,"
then the house, the house of the LORD, was filled with a cloud,

¹⁴ so that the priests could not stand to minister because of the cloud, for the glory of the LORD filled the house of God.