1 Kings 8:1-11 - The Dedication Of The Temple
1 Then Solomon gathered the elders of Israel, all the heads of the tribes and ancient lords of the children of Israel, unto him to Jerusalem, to bring up the Ark of the covenant of the LORD out of the city of David which is Zion. 2 And all the men of Israel assembled unto king Solomon to the feast that falleth in the month Ethanim, which is the seventh month.
3 And when all the elders of Israel were come, the priests took up the Ark of the LORD, 4 and brought it and also the tabernacle of witness and all the holy vessels that were therein. And the priests and the Levites brought them up. 5 And king Solomon and all the congregation of Israel that were assembled, and were with him before the Ark, did offer sheep and oxen that could not be told nor numbered for multitude. 6 And so the priests brought the Ark of the covenant of the LORD unto his place: even into the quyre of the temple and place most holy, under the wings of the Cherubs. 7 For the Cherubs stretched out their wings over the Ark, and covered both it and also the staves thereof on high upon it. 8 Howbeit the staves were so long that the ends of them appeared out of the holy place before the quyre, but were not seen without. And there they be unto this day. 9 And there was nothing in the Ark save the two tables of stone which Moses put there at Horeb, when the LORD made a covenant with the children of Israel after they were come out of Egypt.
10 And when the priests were come out of the Holy place, then a cloud filled the house of the LORD, 11 that the priests could not endure to minister because of the cloud: for the glory of the LORD had filled the house of the LORD.