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1 Kings 8:1-9

The Ark Brought into the Temple

1 ^aThen Solomon assembled the elders of Israel and all the heads of the tribes ^bthe leaders of the fathers’ houses of the people of Israel, before King Solomon in Jerusalem ^cto bring up the ark of the covenant of the Lord out of ^dthe city of David, which is Zion. 2 And all the men of Israel assembled to King Solomon at ^ethe feast in the month Ethanim, which is the seventh month. 3 And all the elders of Israel came, and ^fthe priests took up the ark. 4 And they brought up the ark of the Lord, ^gthe tent of meeting, and all the holy vessels that were in the tent; the priests and the Levites brought them up. 5 And King Solomon and all the congregation of Israel, who had assembled before him, were with him before the ark, ^hsacrificing so many sheep and oxen that they could not be counted or numbered. 6 ⁱThen the priests brought the ark of the covenant of the Lord ^jto its place in ^kthe inner sanctuary of the house, in the Most Holy Place, underneath the wings of the cherubim. 7 For the cherubim spread out their wings over the place of the ark, so that the cherubim overshadowed the ark and its poles. 8 ^lAnd the poles were so long that the ends of the poles were seen from the Holy Place before ^mthe inner sanctuary; but they could not be seen from outside. And they are there to this day. 9 There was nothing in the ark except ⁿthe two tablets of stone that Moses put there at Horeb, where ^othe Lord made a covenant with the people of Israel, when they came out of the land of Egypt.