SECOND CHRONICLES

2 Chronicles Chapter 5

1 ¶ Thus all the work that Solomon did for the house of the LORD was finished: and Solomon brought in all the things that his father David had dedicated; and stored the silver, and the gold, and all the utensils, in the treasuries of the house of God.

2 Then Solomon assembled the elders of Israel, and all the heads of the tribes, the leaders of the father’s houses of the people of Israel, to Jerusalem, to bring up the ark of the covenant of the LORD out of the city of David, which is Zion.

3 Therefore all the men of Israel gathered to the king at the feast of the seventh month.

4 And all the elders of Israel came; and the Levites took up the ark.

5 And the priests and the Levites brought up the ark, and the tent of the congregation, and all the holy vessels that were in the tent.

6 King Solomon, and the entire congregation of Israel that was gathered to him before the ark, also sacrificed sheep and oxen, so many that they could not be counted or reported.

7 And the priests brought in the ark of the covenant of the LORD to its place, into the sanctuary of the house, into the most holy place, under the wings of the cherubim:

8 For the cherubim spread out their wings over the place of the ark, making a covering over the ark and its poles.

9 And they drew out the poles of the ark, so that the ends of the poles could be seen from the holy place; but they could not be seen from the outside. And it is there to this day.

10 There was nothing in the ark except the two tablets that Moses put in it at Horeb, when the LORD made a covenant with the children of Israel, when they came out of Egypt.

11 ¶ And when the priests had come out of the holy place: (for all the priests who were present had been sanctified, without regard to their divisions:

12 Also all the Levites who were the singers, Asaph, Heman, and Jeduthun, with their sons and kinsmen, arrayed in white linen, having cymbals and psalteries and harps, stood at the east end of the altar, and with them a hundred and twenty priests sounding with trumpets:)

13 It came even to pass, as the trumpeters and singers were in unison, making one sound to be heard in praising and thanking the LORD; and when they lifted up their voice with the trumpets and cymbals and instruments of music, and praised the LORD, saying, For he is good; for his mercy endures for ever: that the house of the LORD was filled with a cloud;

14 So that the priests could not stand and serve because of the cloud: for the glory of the LORD had filled the house of God.