1 Kings 8:8-10

International Standard Version

⁸ The poles extended so far 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 remain there to this day. ⁹ The ark was empty except for the two stone tablets that Moses had placed there at Horeb when the Lord had made a covenant with the Israelis after they had come out of the land of Egypt. ¹⁰ When the priests left the Holy Place after setting the ark in place,^[a] the cloud filled the Lord’s Temple