1 When all the work Solomon had done for the temple of the LORD was finished, he brought in the things his father David had dedicated —the silver and gold and all the furnishings —and he placed them in the treasuries of God's temple.2 Then Solomon summoned to Jerusalem the elders of Israel, all the heads of the tribes and the chiefs of the Israelite families, to bring up the ark of the LORD's covenant from Zion, the City of David.3 And all the Israelites came together to the king at the time of the festival in the seventh month.4 When all the elders of Israel had arrived, the Levites took up the ark,5 and they brought up the ark and the tent of meeting and all the sacred furnishings in it. The Levitical priests carried them up;6 and King Solomon and the entire assembly of Israel that had gathered about him were before the ark, sacrificing so many sheep and cattle that they could not be recorded or counted.7 The priests then brought the ark of the LORD's covenant to its place in the inner sanctuary of the temple, the Most Holy Place, and put it beneath the wings of the cherubim.8 The cherubim spread their wings over the place of the ark and covered the ark and its carrying poles.9 These poles were so long that their ends, extending from the ark, could be seen from in front of the inner sanctuary, but not from outside the Holy Place; and they are still there today.10 There was nothing in the ark except the two tablets that Moses had placed in it at Horeb, where the LORD made a covenant with the Israelites after they came out of Egypt.11 The priests then withdrew from the Holy Place. All the priests who were there had consecrated themselves, regardless of their divisions.12 All the Levites who were musicians —Asaph, Heman, Jeduthun and their sons and relatives —stood on the east side of the altar, dressed in fine linen and playing cymbals, harps and lyres. They were accompanied by 120 priests sounding trumpets.13 The trumpeters and musicians joined in unison to give praise and thanks to the LORD. Accompanied by trumpets, cymbals and other instruments, the singers raised their voices in praise to the LORD and sang: "He is good; his love endures forever." Then the temple of the LORD was filled with the cloud,14 and the priests could not perform their service because of the cloud, for the glory of the LORD filled the temple of God.

1 Intulit igitur Salomon omnia qu voverat David pater suus : argentum, et aurum, et universa vasa posuit in thesauris domus Dei. 2 Post qu congregavit majores natu Isral, et cunctos principes tribuum, et capita familiarum de filiis Isral in Jerusalem, ut adducerent arcam fderis Domini de civitate David, qu est Sion. 3 Venerunt itaque ad regem omnes viri Isral in die solemni mensis septimi. 4 Cumque venissent cuncti seniorum Isral, portaverunt Levit arcam, 5 et intulerunt eam, et omnem paraturam tabernaculi. Porro vasa sanctuarii, qu erant in tabernaculo, portaverunt sacerdotes cum Levitis. 6 Rex autem Salomon, et universus ctus Isral, et omnes qui fuerunt congregati ante arcam, immolabant arietes et boves absque ullo numero : tanta enim erat multitudo victimarum. 7 Et intulerunt sacerdotes arcam fderis Domini in locum suum, id est, ad oraculum templi, in Sancta sanctorum subter alas cherubim : 8 ita ut cherubim expanderent alas suas super locum in quo posita erat arca, et ipsam arcam tegerent cum vectibus suis. 9 Vectium autem quibus portabatur arca, quia paululum longiores erant, capita parebant ante oraculum : si vero quis paululum fuisset extrinsecus, eos videre non poterat. Fuit itaque arca ibi usque in prsentem diem. 10 Nihilque erat aliud in arca, nisi du tabul quas posuerat Moyses in Horeb, quando legem dedit Dominus filiis Isral egredientibus ex gypto. 11 Egressis autem sacerdotibus de sanctuario (omnes enim sacerdotes qui ibi potuerant inveniri, sanctificati sunt : nec adhuc in illo tempore vices et ministeriorum ordo inter eos divisus erat), 12 tam Levit quam cantores, id est, et qui sub Asaph erant, et qui sub Eman, et qui sub Idithun, filii et fratres eorum vestiti byssinis, cymbalis, et psalteriis, et citharis concrepabant, stantes ad orientalem plagam altaris : et cum eis sacerdotes centum viginti canentes tubis. 13 Igitur cunctis pariter, et tubis, et voce, et cymbalis, et organis, et diversi generis musicorum concinentibus, et vocem in sublime tollentibus, longe sonitus audiebatur, ita ut cum Dominum laudare cpissent et dicere : Confitemini Domino quoniam bonus, quoniam in ternum misericordia ejus : impleretur domus Dei nube, 14 nec possent sacerdotes stare et ministrare propter caliginem. Compleverat enim gloria Domini domum Dei.