1,2 2 S 6.11-16;1 Ch 15.25-29;Lv 23.34.The sacred chest had been kept on Mount Zion, also known as the city of David. But Solomondecided to have the chest moved to the temple while everyone was in Jerusalem, celebrating the Festival of Shelters during Ethanim,8.1,2 Ethanim: The seventh month of the Hebrew calendar, from about mid-September to mid-October.the seventh month of the year.
Solomoncalled together the important leaders of Israel. 3,4 Then the priests and the Levites carried to the temple the sacred chest, the sacred tent, and the objects used for worship. 5 Solomonand a crowd of people stood in front of the chest and sacrificed more sheep and cattle than could be counted.
6 The priests carried the chest into the most holy place and put it under the winged creatures, 7 whose wings covered both the chest and the poles used for carrying it. 8 The poles were so long that they could be seen from right outside the most holy place, but not from anywhere else. And they stayed there from then on.
9 Dt 10.5.The only things kept in the chest were the two flat stones Moseshad put there when the Lordmade his agreement with the people of Israelat Mount Sinai,8.9 Sinai: Hebrew "Horeb."after bringing them out of Egypt.
10 Ex 40.34,35.Suddenly a cloud filled the temple as the priests were leaving the most holy place. 11 The Lord's glory was in the cloud, and the light from it was so bright that the priests could not stay inside to do their work. 12 Ps 18.11;97.2.Then Solomonprayed:
Zion is the fortress David captured, which became the City of David; the people of the Lord live there, and it was foretold that Zion would be plowed like a field (2 Samuel 5:7).
The City of David is the fortress of Zion, which David captured and lived in; the ark of the Lord entered it, and kings such as Solomon and Abijah were buried there (2 Samuel 5:7).
Solomon, son of David and Bathsheba, reigned over Israel, asked God for wisdom to govern the people, and built the temple of the Lord in Jerusalem (2 Samuel 12:24).
Jerusalem is the city of the house of God, where children of Judah and Benjamin lived; the Babylonian army broke down the walls of the city (2 Kings 25:10).
Solomon, son of David and Bathsheba, reigned over Israel, asked God for wisdom to govern the people, and built the temple of the Lord in Jerusalem (2 Samuel 12:24).
Solomon, son of David and Bathsheba, reigned over Israel, asked God for wisdom to govern the people, and built the temple of the Lord in Jerusalem (2 Samuel 12:24).
Moses, a Levite raised by Pharaoh’s daughter, was called by God at the burning bush, brought Israel out of slavery in Egypt, and received the law on Mount Sinai (Exodus 3:4).
Jacob, son of Isaac, bought the birthright from Esau, wrestled with God at Penuel, and received the name Israel; his twelve sons gave rise to the tribes (Genesis 32:28).
Significado: “One who takes by the heel (supplanter)”
Mount Horeb is the mountain of God, where the Lord made a covenant with the Israelites after they came out of Egypt and where Moses placed the two tablets (2 Chronicles 5:10).
Egypt is the land where Abram went down because of famine and where Jacob and his sons went. Because Pharaoh refused to let Israel go, the Lord killed all the firstborn there (Exodus 13:15).
Solomon, son of David and Bathsheba, reigned over Israel, asked God for wisdom to govern the people, and built the temple of the Lord in Jerusalem (2 Samuel 12:24).