II Chronicles Chapter 5

II Chronicles Chapter 5
1 So was all the work finished that
Solomon made for the house of the Lord,
and Solomon brought in the things that
David his father had dedicated, with the
silver and the gold, and all the vessels,
and put them among the treasures of the
house of God.
2 Then Solomon assembled the elders of
Israel, and all the heads of the tribes, the
chief fathers of the children of Israel
unto Jerusalem to bring up the ark of the
covenant of the Lord from the city of
David, which is Zion. 3 And all the men
of Israel assembled unto the king at the
feast: it was in the seventh month.
4 And all the elders of Israel came, and
the Levites took up the ark. 5 And they
carried up the ark and the tabernacle of
the congregation: and all the holy
vessels that were in the tabernacle, those
did the priests and Levites bring up.
6 And king Solomon and all the
congregation of Israel that were
assembled unto him, were before the ark,
offering sheep and bullocks, which
could not be told nor numbered for
multitude.
7 So the priests brought the ark of the
covenant of the Lord unto his place, into
the oracle of the house, into the most
holy place, even under the wings of the
cherubims.
8 For the cherubims stretched out their
wings over the place of the ark, and the
cherubims covered the ark and the bars
thereof above.
9 And they drew out the bars, that the
ends of the bars might be seen out of the
ark before the oracle, but they were not
seen without: and there they are unto this
day.
10 Nothing was in the ark, save the two
tables, which Moses gave at Horeb,
where the Lord made a covenant with
the children of Israel, when they came
out of Egypt.
11 And when the priests were come out
of the sanctuary (for all the priests that
were present, were sanctified and did
not wait by course. 12 And the Levites
the singers of all sorts, as of Asaph, of
Heman, of Jeduthun, and of their sons
and of their brethren, being clad in fine
linen, stood with cymbals, and with
viols and harps at the east end of the
altar, and with them an hundred and
twenty priests blowing with trumpets:
13 And they were as one, blowing
trumpets, and singing, and made one
sound to be heard in praising and
thanking the Lord, and when they lift up
their voice with trumpets and with
cymbals, and with instruments of music,
and when they praised the Lord, singing,
For he is good, because his mercy
lasteth forever) then the house, even the
house of the Lord was filled with a
cloud,
14 So that the priests could not stand to
minister, because of the cloud: for the
glory of the Lord had filled the house of
God.