1 Kings 8:1-11 - The Dedication Of The Temple

¹ And Solomon gathered the elders of Israel, and all the heads of the tribes, the chief of the fathers of the sons of Israel, to King Solomon in Jerusalem, so that they might bring up the ark of the covenant of Jehovah out of the city of David, which is Zion. ² And all the men of Israel were gathered to King Solomon at the feast in the month Ethanim, which is the seventh month.

³ And all the elders of Israel came in, and the priests took up the ark. ⁴ And they brought up the ark of Jehovah, and the tabernacle of the congregation, and all the holy vessels which were in the tabernacle; even those the priests and the Levites brought up. ⁵ And King Solomon, and all the congregation of Israel who had assembled to him, were with him before the ark sacrificing sheep and oxen which could not be counted nor numbered for multitude. ⁶ And the priests brought in the ark of the covenant of Jehovah into its place, into the holy place of the house, into the Holy of Holies, under the wings of the cherubs. ⁷ For the cherubs spread forth their two wings over the place of the ark. And the cherubs covered the ark and the staves of it above. ⁸ And they drew out the staves, so that the ends of the staves were seen out in the holy place, in front of the Holy of Holies. And they were not seen outside. And there they are until today. ⁹ There was nothing in the ark except the two tablets of stone which Moses put there at Horeb, when Jehovah made a covenant with the sons of Israel when they came out of the land of Egypt.

¹⁰ And it happened when the priests had come out of the Holy of Holies, the cloud filled the house of Jehovah. ¹¹ And the priests could not stand to minister because of the cloud, for the glory of Jehovah had filled the house of Jehovah.