1 Then all the greater men in birth in Israel, with [the] princes of the lineages, and the dukes of [the] meines of the sons of Israel, were gathered to king Solomon, into Jerusalem, that they should bear the ark of [the] bond of peace of the Lord from the city of David, that is, from Zion.

2 And all Israel came together [to king Solomon] in the month [of] Ethanim, that is September, in the solemn day; which is the seventh month.

3 And all the eld men of Israel came; and the priests took the ark,

4 and they bare the ark of the Lord, and the tabernacle of [the] bond of peace, and all the vessels of the saintuary, that were in the tabernacle; and the priests and deacons bare those [or them].

5 And king Solomon, and all the multitude of Israel, that came together to him, went with him before the ark; and they offered sheep and oxen, without guessing and number*8:5 This is said by figurative speech, called hyperbole, to signify the multitude of sacrifices..

6 And [the] priests brought the ark of [the] bond of peace of the Lord into his place, into God’s answering place of the temple, into the holy of holy things, under the wings of the cherubims [or cherubim].

7 And the cherubims [or cherubim] spreaded forth their wings over the place of the ark; and they covered the ark, and the bars thereof above.

8 And when the bars stood forth, and the highness of those [or them] appeared without the saintuary, before God’s answering place, those bars appeared no further withoutforth; the which bars also were there unto this present day.

9 And in the ark was none other thing, no but [the] two tables of stone, which Moses in Horeb had put in the ark, when the Lord made bond of peace with the sons of Israel, when they went out of the land of Egypt.

10 And it was done when the priests had gone out of the saintuary, a cloud filled the house of the Lord;

11 and the priests might not stand and minister, for the cloud; for why the glory of the Lord had filled the house of the Lord.