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Chapter 5 |
| 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 instruments, put he among the treasures of the house
of God. |
| 2 |
Then Solomon assembled the elders of Israel, and all the heads
of the tribes, the chief of the 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 | Wherefore all the men of Israel assembled
themselves unto the king in the feast which was in the seventh month.
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| 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 the
congregation, 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 told nor numbered for multitude. |
| 7 |
And the priests brought in the ark of the covenant of the LORD unto his place,
to the oracle of the house, into the most holy place, even under the wings of
the cherubim: |
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8 | For the cherubim spread forth their wings over the
place of the ark, and the cherubim covered the ark and the staves thereof
above. |
| 9 |
And they drew out the staves of the ark, that the ends of the
staves were seen from the ark before the oracle; but they were not seen
without. And there it is unto this day. |
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10 | There was nothing in the
ark save the two tables which Moses put therein 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, and did not then wait by
course: |
| 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 psalteries and harps, stood at the east end
of the altar, and with them an 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 endureth
for ever: 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 by reason of
the cloud: for the glory of the LORD had filled the house of God. |
