1 When all the work Solomon did for the house of the LORD was complete, Solomon brought in what his father David had consecrated: the silver, the gold, and all the vessels he placed in the treasuries of God's house.
2 Solomon then called together in Jerusalem the elders of Israel and all the tribal heads, the leaders of the fathers' houses of the children of Israel, to bring up the ark of the LORD's covenant from the City of David, that is, Zion.
3 Every man of Israel gathered before the king at the feast in the seventh month.
4 When all the elders of Israel had arrived, the Levites lifted up the ark.
5 They carried up the ark, the tent of meeting, and all the holy vessels in the tent; the Levitical priests carried them up.
6 King Solomon and the whole congregation of Israel that had gathered around him in front of the ark were sacrificing sheep and cattle, so many that they could not be listed or counted.
7 The priests brought the ark of the LORD's covenant to its place, into the inner sanctuary of the house, the Most Holy Place, under the cherubim's wings.
8 The cherubim stretched out their wings over the ark's place, and so the cherubim formed a covering above the ark and its poles.
9 The poles were long enough that their ends could be seen from the ark at the front of the inner sanctuary, though not from outside; and they are there to this day.
10 Nothing was inside the ark but the two tablets Moses placed in it at Horeb, where the LORD made a covenant with the children of Israel when they left Egypt.
11 Now the priests came out of the holy place; all the priests who were there had sanctified themselves without regard to their divisions,
12 and the Levitical singers, Asaph, Heman, and Jeduthun, all of them with their sons and brothers, dressed in fine linen, stood on the east side of the altar with cymbals, harps, and lyres, and with them a hundred and twenty priests sounding trumpets.
13 Then the trumpeters and singers joined as one to make one voice heard praising and thanking the LORD; and as they lifted their voice with trumpets, cymbals, and musical instruments in praise to the LORD, "For he is good, for his steadfast love lasts forever," the house, the house of the LORD, was filled with a cloud,
14 and the priests were unable to stand and serve because of the cloud, since the glory of the LORD filled God's house.