1 Assim se acabou toda a obra que Salomão fez para a casa de Jeová. Salomão trouxe as coisas que seu pai Davi tinha dedicado: a saber, a prata, o ouro e todos os vasos, e pô-los nos tesouros da casa de Deus.

2 Então congregou Salomão em Jerusalém os anciãos de Israel, todos os cabeças das tribos, príncipes das famílias dos filhos de Israel, para fazerem subir a arca da aliança de Jeová, da cidade de Davi, que é Sião.

3 Todos os homens se congregaram ao rei na festa, que era no sétimo mês.

4 Todos os anciãos de Israel vieram, e os levitas levantaram a arca.

5 Levaram a arca, a tenda da revelação e todos os vasos sagrados que estavam na Tenda: levaram-nos os levitas sacerdotes.

6 O rei e toda a congregação, que fora convocada a ele, estavam diante da arca, sacrificando ovelhas e bois, que não se podiam contar nem numerar por causa da sua multidão.

7 Trouxeram os sacerdotes a arca da aliança de Jeová ao seu lugar, no oráculo da casa, o santo dos santos, para debaixo das asas dos querubins.

8 Porque os querubins estendiam as suas asas sobre o lugar em que estava posta a arca, e os querubins por cima cobriam a arca e os seus varais.

9 Os varais eram tão compridos que as suas extremidades se viam da arca diante do oráculo; porém não se viam do lado de fora. Ali está a arca até o dia de hoje.

10 Não havia na arca coisa alguma senão as duas tábuas que Moisés ali pôs em Horebe, quando Jeová fez uma aliança com os filhos de Israel, ao saírem eles do Egito.

11 Tendo os sacerdotes saído do santo lugar (porque todos os sacerdotes que estavam presentes se tinham santificado, sem observarem as ordens das suas turmas;

12 também os levitas, que eram cantores, todos eles, isto é, Asafe, Hemã, Jedutum, e seus filhos e irmãos, vestidos de linho fino, e com címbalos, alaúdes e harpas, estavam em pé ao lado oriental do altar, e juntamente com eles cento e vinte sacerdotes que tocavam trombetas),

13 quando os que tocavam trombetas e os que cantavam estavam acordes em fazerem ouvir uma só voz, dando graças a Jeová e louvando-o; e quando levantavam a voz com as trombetas, címbalos e instrumentos de música, e louvavam a Jeová, dizendo: Porque ele é bom; porque a sua misericórdia dura para sempre; então se encheu duma nuvem a casa, a saber, a casa de Jeová,

14 de modo que os sacerdotes não podiam ter-se em pé para ministrar por causa da nuvem: pois a glória de Jeová encheu a casa de Deus.

1 So all the work which Solomon did for the house of the Lord was complete. And Solomon took the holy things which David his father had given, the silver and the gold and all the vessels, and put them in the store-houses of the house of God.

2 Then Solomon sent for all the responsible men of Israel, all the chiefs of the tribes and the heads of families of the children of Israel, to come to Jerusalem and take the ark of the Lord's agreement up out of the town of David, which is Zion.

3 And all the men of Israel came together to the king at the feast in the seventh month.

4 All the responsible men of Israel came, and the Levites took up the ark.

5 They took up the ark and the Tent of meeting and all the holy vessels which were in the Tent; all these the priests, the Levites, took up.

6 And King Solomon and all the men of Israel who had come together there with him, were before the ark, making offerings of sheep and oxen more than might be numbered.

7 And the priests took the ark of the Lord's agreement and put it in its place, in the inner room of the house, in the most holy place, under the wings of the winged ones.

8 For their wings were outstretched over the place where the ark was, covering the ark and its rods.

9 The rods were so long that their ends were seen from the holy place before the inmost room; but they were not seen from outside; and there they are to this day.

10 Nothing was in the ark but the two flat stones which Moses put there at Horeb, where the Lord made an agreement with the children of Israel when they came out of Egypt.

11 Now when the priests had come out of the holy place, (for all the priests who were present had made themselves holy, not keeping to their divisions;

12 And the Levites who made the music, all of them, Asaph, Heman, Jeduthun, and their sons and brothers, robed in fair linen, were in their places with their brass and corded instruments at the east side of the altar, and with them a hundred and twenty priests blowing horns;)

13 And when the players on horns, and those who made melody in song, with one voice were sounding the praise and glory of the Lord; with loud voices and with wind instruments, and brass and corded instruments of music, praising the Lord and saying, He is good; his mercy is unchanging for ever: then the house was full of the cloud of the glory of the Lord,

14 So that the priests were not able to keep their places to do their work because of the cloud; for the house of God was full of the glory of the Lord.