1 Kings 8:1-9

New American Standard Bible 1995

The Ark Brought into the Temple

8 ^(A)Then Solomon assembled the elders of Israel and all ^(B)the heads of the tribes, the leaders of the fathers’ households of the sons of Israel, to King Solomon in Jerusalem, ^(C)to bring up the ark of the covenant of the Lord from ^(D)the city of David, which is Zion. ² All the men of Israel assembled themselves to King Solomon at ^(E)the feast, in the month Ethanim, which is the seventh month. ³ Then all the elders of Israel came, and ^(F)the priests took up the ark. ⁴ They brought up the ark of the Lord and ^(G)the tent of meeting and all the holy utensils, which were in the tent, and the priests and the Levites brought them up. ⁵ And King Solomon and all the congregation of Israel, who were assembled to him, ^(H)were with him before the ark, sacrificing ^[a]so many sheep and oxen they could not be counted or numbered. ⁶ Then ^(I)the priests brought the ark of the covenant of the Lord ^(J)to its place, into the inner sanctuary of the house, to the most holy place, ^(K)under the wings of the cherubim. ⁷ For the cherubim spread their wings over the place of the ark, and the cherubim made a covering over the ark and its poles from above. ⁸ But ^(L)the poles were so long that the ends of the poles could be seen from the holy place before the inner sanctuary, but they could not be seen outside; they are there to this day. ^9 (M)There was nothing in the ark except the two tablets of stone which Moses put there at Horeb, where ^(N)the Lord made a covenant with the sons of Israel, when they came out of the land of Egypt.