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 arca5 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 wrought for the house of Yahweh was finished. And Solomon brought in the things that David his father had dedicated, 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 sons of Israel, to Jerusalem, to bring up the ark of the covenant of Yahweh out of the city of David, which is Zion.3 And all the men of Israel assembled themselves to 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; the Levitical priests brought these up.6 And King Solomon and all the congregation of Israel, who were assembled to 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 Yahweh to its place, into the oracle 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 its poles above.9 And the poles were so long that the ends of the poles were seen from the ark before the oracle; but they were not seen outside: and there it is to this day.10 There was nothing in the ark but the two tables which Moses put [there] at Horeb, by which Yahweh made a covenant with the sons of Israel, when they came out of Egypt.11 And it came to pass, when the priests had come out of the holy place, (for all the priests who 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 brothers, 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 to pass, when the trumpeters and singers were as one, to make one sound to be heard in praising and thanking Yahweh; and when they lifted up their voice with the trumpets and cymbals and instruments of music, and praised Yahweh, [saying], For he is good; for his loving-kindness [endures] forever; that then the house was filled with a cloud, even the house of Yahweh,14 so that the priests could not stand to minister by reason of the cloud: for the glory of Yahweh filled the house of God.