2 Chronicles 5

5 ¹Solomon completed all the work for the house of our Father. He then brought in his father David's dedicated things—silver, gold, all the vessels—and put them in the storerooms of the house of our Father.

²Solomon then gathered Israel's elders, all tribal heads, and leaders of Israel's ancestral families in Jerusalem, to bring up the ark of the covenant of our Father from the City of David, also called Zion. ³So all the men of Israel gathered before the king at the feast in the seventh month. ^a a v3 The feast in the seventh month is the Festival of Shelters, Israel's great autumn harvest celebration. ⁴When all the elders of Israel had come, the Levites took up the ark. ⁵The priests and Levites brought up the ark, the tent of meeting, and all the holy vessels in it. ⁶King Solomon and all Israel's assembly who had gathered before him stood before the ark, sacrificing sheep and cattle too many to count or number. ⁷The priests brought our Father's covenant ark to its place, the house's inner sanctuary, the Most Holy Place, beneath the cherubim's wings. ⁸For the cherubim spread their wings over the ark's place, covering it and its poles from above. ⁹The poles were long enough that their ends showed from the ark before the inner sanctuary, but not outside; they remain there to this day. ¹⁰The ark held nothing but the two tablets Moses placed there at Horeb, where our Father made a covenant with the Israelites when they left Egypt.

¹¹Then the priests left the holy place. (All priests present had made themselves holy, regardless of their divisions, ^b b v11 Priests served in rotating duty groups called divisions, each assigned a specific week in the temple calendar. ¹²and all the Levite singers—Asaph, Heman, Jeduthun, their sons and relatives—stood east of the altar in fine linen, playing cymbals, harps, and lyres, with 120 priests blowing trumpets.). ¹³The trumpeters and singers, united, praised and thanked our Father with one voice—raising their voices with the trumpets, cymbals, and instruments, they praised him: "He is good; his covenant love endures forever." Then a cloud filled our Father's house, ¹⁴So the priests couldn't stand to serve because of the cloud, for the glory of our Father filled the house of our Father.