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And all the work that Salomon did in the house of the Lord was completed. And Salomon brought in the holy things of David his father — the silver and the gold and the vessels — and he put them into the treasury of the house of the Lord.
Then Salomon assembled the elders of Israel and all the rulers of the tribes, the heads of the ancestral houses of the sons of Israel, at Jerusalem, to bring up the ark of the covenant of the Lord out of the city of David, which is Zion.
And King Salomon and all the congregation of Israel, and those who feared and those who had gathered to them, were before the ark, sacrificing calves and sheep that could not be numbered and could not be reckoned for their multitude.
And the priests brought in the ark of the covenant of the Lord to its place, into the dabir of the house, into the holy of holies, under the wings of the cherubim.
And the poles projected, and the heads of the poles were seen from the holy place, before the face of the dabir, but they were not seen outside; and they have been there to this day.
There was nothing in the ark except the two tablets that Moses placed there at Choreb, which the Lord covenanted with the sons of Israel when they came out of the land of Egypt.
And it happened, when the priests came out of the holy place — for all the priests who were present had been sanctified; they were not arranged by divisions —
and all the Levites who were singers, belonging to the sons of Asaph, to Aiman, to Idithoun, and their sons and their brothers, clothed in fine linen robes, with cymbals and with harps and with lyres, stood opposite the altar; and with them one hundred twenty priests sounding the trumpets.
And there was one sound in the trumpeting and in the singing and in the crying aloud with one voice, to give thanks and to praise the Lord. And when they lifted up their voice with trumpets and with cymbals and with instruments of song, they said, Give thanks to the Lord, for he is good, for his mercy is forever. And the house was filled with the cloud of the glory of the Lord.