³ Then all the elders of Israel came, and ^(A)the priests carried the ark. ⁴ And they brought up the ark of Yahweh and ^(B)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 congregated to him being ^(C)with him before the ark, were sacrificing ^[a]so many sheep and oxen that they could not be counted or numbered.