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The Second
Book of Paralipomenon 5
Then Solomon brought in all the things that David his
father had vowed, the silver, and the gold, and all
the vessels he put among the treasures of the house
of God.
And after this he gathered together the ancients of
Israel, and all the princes of the tribes, and the heads
of the families, of the children of Israel to Jerusalem,
to bring the ark of the covenant of the Lord out of
the city of David, which is Sion.
And all the men of Israel came to the king in the solemn
day of the seventh month.
And when all the ancients of Israel were come, the Levites
took up the ark,
And brought it in, together with all the furniture of
the tabernacle. And the priests with the Levites carried
the vessels of the sanctuary, which were in the tabernacle.
And king Solomon and all the assembly of Israel, and
all that were gathered together before the ark, sacrificed
rams, and oxen without number: so great was the multitude
of the victims.
And the priests brought in the ark of the covenant of
the Lord into its place, that is, to the oracle of the
temple, into the holy of holies under the wings of the
cherubims:
So that the cherubims spread their wings over the place,
in which the ark was set, and covered the ark itself
and its staves.
Now the ends of the staves wherewith the ark was carried,
because they were some thing longer, were seen before
the oracle: but if a man were a little outward, he could
not see them. So the ark has been there unto this day.
And there was nothing else in the ark but the two tables
which Moses put there at Horeb when the Lord gave the
law to the children of Israel, at their coming out of
Egypt.
Now when the priests were come out of the sanctuary,
(for all the priests that could be found there, mere
sanctified: and as yet at that time the courses and
orders of the ministries were not divided among them,)
Both the Levites and the singing men, that is, both
they that were under Asaph, and they that were under
Heman, and they that were under Idithun, with their
sons, and their brethren, clothed with fine linen, sounded
with cymbals, and psalteries, and harps, standing on
the east side of the altar, and with them a hundred
and twenty priests, sounding with trumpets.
So when they all sounded together, both with trumpets,
and voice, and cymbals, and organs, and with divers
kind of musical instruments, and lifted up their voice
on high : the sound was heard afar off, so that when
they began to praise the Lord, and to say: Give glory
to the Lord for he is good, for his mercy endureth for
ever: the house of God was filled with a cloud.
Nor could the priests stand and minister by reason of
the cloud. For the glory of the Lord had filled the
house of God.
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