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 wrought for the house of the LORD was finished. And Solomon brought in the things that David his father had hallowed; even the silver, and the gold, and all the vessels, and put them in the treasuries of the house of God.

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

3 And all the men of Israel assembled themselves unto the king at 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 tent of meeting, and all the holy vessels that were in the Tent; these did the priests and the Levites bring up.

6 And king Solomon and all the congregation of Israel, that were assembled unto him, were before the ark, sacrificing sheep and oxen, that could not be counted nor numbered for multitude.

7 And the priests brought in the ark of the covenant of the LORD unto its place, into the Sanctuary of the house, to 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 the staves were so long that the ends of the staves were seen from the ark before the Sanctuary; but they could not be seen without; and there they are unto this day.

10 There was nothing in the ark save the two tables which Moses put there 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 had sanctified themselves, and did not keep their courses;

12 also the Levites who were the singers, all of them, even Asaph, Heman, Jeduthun, and their sons and their brethren, arrayed in fine linen, with cymbals and psalteries and harps, stood at the east end of the altar, and with them a hundred and twenty priests sounding with trumpets--

13 it came even to pass, when 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: 'for He is good, for His mercy endureth 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 filled the house of God.