1 Assim, se acabou toda a obra que fez o rei Salomão para a Casa do Senhor; então, trouxe Salomão as coisas que Davi, seu pai, havia dedicado; a prata, o ouro e os utensílios, ele os pôs entre os tesouros da Casa de Deus.

2 Congregou Salomão os anciãos de Israel e todos os cabeças das tribos, os príncipes das famílias dos israelitas, em Jerusalém, para fazerem subir a arca da Aliança do Senhor, da Cidade de Davi, que é Sião, para o templo. 3 Todos os homens de Israel se congregaram junto ao rei, na ocasião da festa, que foi no sétimo mês. 4 Vieram todos os anciãos de Israel, e os levitas tomaram a arca 5 e a levaram para cima, com a tenda da congregação, e também os utensílios sagrados que nela havia; os levitas sacerdotes é que os fizeram subir. 6 O rei Salomão e toda a congregação de Israel, que se reunira a ele, estavam diante da arca, sacrificando ovelhas e bois, que, de tão numerosos, não se podiam contar. 7 Puseram os sacerdotes a arca da Aliança do Senhor no seu lugar, no santuário mais interior do templo, no Santo dos Santos, debaixo das asas dos querubins. 8 (Pois os querubins estendiam as asas sobre o lugar da arca e, do alto, cobriam a arca e os seus varais. 9 Os varais sobressaíam tanto, que suas pontas eram vistas do Santo Lugar, defronte do Santo dos Santos, porém de fora não se viam. 10 Aí estão os varais até ao dia de hoje.) Nada havia na arca senão as duas tábuas que Moisés ali pusera junto a Horebe, quando o Senhor fez aliança com os filhos de Israel, ao saírem do Egito.

11 Quando saíram os sacerdotes do santuário (porque todos os sacerdotes, que estavam presentes, se santificaram, sem respeitarem os seus turnos); 12 e quando todos os levitas que eram cantores, isto é, Asafe, Hemã, Jedutum e os filhos e irmãos deles, vestidos de linho fino, estavam de pé, para o oriente do altar, com címbalos, alaúdes e harpas, e com eles até cento e vinte sacerdotes, que tocavam as trombetas; 13 e quando em uníssono, a um tempo, tocaram as trombetas e cantaram para se fazerem ouvir, para louvarem o Senhor e render-lhe graças; e quando levantaram eles a voz com trombetas, címbalos e outros instrumentos músicos para louvarem o Senhor, porque ele é bom, porque a sua misericórdia dura para sempre, então, sucedeu que a casa, a saber, a Casa do Senhor, se encheu de uma nuvem; 14 de maneira que os sacerdotes não podiam estar ali para ministrar, por causa da nuvem, porque a glória do Senhor encheu a Casa de Deus.

1 Thus all the work that Solomon made for the house of the LORD was finished: and Solomon brought in all the things that David his father had dedicated; and the silver, and the gold, and all the instruments, put he among the treasures of the house of God.

2 Then Solomon assembled the elders of Israel, and all the heads of the tribes, the chief of the fathers of the children of Israel, to Jerusalem, to bring up the ark of the covenant of the LORD out of the city of David, which is Zion.

3 Why all the men of Israel assembled themselves to the king in the feast which was in the seventh month.

4 And all the elders of Israel came; and the Levites took up the ark.

5 And they brought up the ark, and the tabernacle of the congregation, and all the holy vessels that were in the tabernacle, these did the priests and the Levites bring up.

6 Also king Solomon, and all the congregation of Israel that were assembled to him before the ark, sacrificed sheep and oxen, which could not be told nor numbered for multitude.

7 And the priests brought in the ark of the covenant of the LORD to his place, to the oracle of the house, into the most holy place, even under the wings of the cherubim:

8 For the cherubim spread forth their wings over the place of the ark, and the cherubim covered the ark and the staves thereof above.

9 And they drew out the staves of the ark, that the ends of the staves were seen from the ark before the oracle; but they were not seen without. And there it is to this day.

10 There was nothing in the ark save the two tables which Moses put therein at Horeb, when the LORD made a covenant with the children of Israel, when they came out of Egypt.

11 And it came to pass, when the priests were come out of the holy place: (for all the priests that were present were sanctified, and did not then wait by course:

12 Also the Levites which were the singers, all of them of Asaph, of Heman, of Jeduthun, with their sons and their brothers, being arrayed in white linen, having cymbals and psalteries and harps, stood at the east end of the altar, and with them an hundred and twenty priests sounding with trumpets:)

13 It came even to pass, as the trumpeters and singers were as one, to make one sound to be heard in praising and thanking the LORD; and when they lifted up their voice with the trumpets and cymbals and instruments of music, and praised the LORD, saying, For he is good; for his mercy endures for ever: that then the house was filled with a cloud, even the house of the LORD;

14 So that the priests could not stand to minister by reason of the cloud: for the glory of the LORD had filled the house of God.