1 Kings 8:9-11

International Standard Version

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 ¹¹ so that the priests could not stand to minister because of the cloud, since the glory of the Lord filled the Lord’s Temple.