1 Terminada toda a obra que Salomão havia realizado para o templo do Senhor, ele trouxe as coisas que seu pai Davi tinha consagrado e colocou junto com os tesouros do templo de Deus: a prata, o ouro e todos os utensílios.

2 Então Salomão reuniu em Jerusalém as autoridades de Israel e todos os líderes das tribos e os chefes das famílias israelitas, para levarem de Sião, a cidade de Davi, a arca da aliança do Senhor.

3 E todos os homens de Israel uniram-se ao rei por ocasião da festa, no sétimo mês.

4 Quando todas as autoridades de Israel chegaram, os levitas pegaram a arca

5 e a levaram, com a Tenda do Encontro e com todos os seus utensílios sagrados. Foram os sacerdotes levitas que levaram tudo.

6 O rei Salomão e toda a comunidade de Israel que se havia reunido a ele diante da arca, sacrificaram tantas ovelhas e bois que nem era possível contar.

7 Os sacerdotes levaram a arca da aliança do Senhor para o seu lugar no santuário interno do templo, no Lugar Santíssimo, e a colocaram debaixo das asas dos querubins.

8 Os querubins tinham suas asas estendidas sobre o lugar da arca e cobriam a arca e as varas utilizadas para o transporte.

9 Essas varas eram tão compridas que as suas pontas, que se estendiam para fora da arca, podiam ser vistas da frente do santuário interno, mas não de fora dele; e elas estão lá até hoje.

10 Na arca havia só as duas tábuas que Moisés tinha colocado quando estava em Horebe, onde o Senhor fez uma aliança com os israelitas depois que saíram do Egito.

11 Então os sacerdotes saíram do Lugar Santo. Todos eles haviam se consagrado, não importando a divisão a que pertenciam.

12 E, todos os levitas que eram músicos — Asafe, Hemã, Jedutum e os filhos e parentes deles — ficaram a leste do altar, vestidos de linho fino, tocando címbalos, harpas e liras, e os acompanhavam cento e vinte sacerdotes tocando cornetas.

13 Os que tocavam cornetas e os cantores, em uníssono, louvaram e agradeceram ao Senhor. Ao som de cornetas, címbalos e outros instrumentos, levantaram suas vozes em louvor ao Senhor e cantaram: "Ele é bom; o seu amor dura para sempre". Então uma nuvem encheu o templo do Senhor,

14 de forma que os sacerdotes não podiam desempenhar o seu serviço, pois a glória do Senhor encheu o templo 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 furnishings, put he in the treasuries of the house of God.

2 Then Solomon assembled the elders of Israel, and all the heads of the tribes, the chief fathers 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 Therefore all the men of Israel assembled themselves unto 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 meeting, 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 unto him before the ark, sacrificed sheep and oxen, which 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, to the inner sanctuary 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 its poles.

9 And the poles of the ark extended out, so that the ends of the poles were seen from the ark in front of the inner sanctuary; but they were not seen outside. And there it is unto this day.

10 There was nothing in the ark except 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 were sanctified, without regard to their divisions.

12 Also the Levites which were the singers, all of them of Asaph, of Heman, of Jeduthun, with their sons and their brethren, being arrayed in white linen, having cymbals and lyres 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, 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 forever: 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 because of the cloud: for the glory of the LORD had filled the house of God.