2Chr 5
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Thus all the work that Solomon wrought for the house of the LORD was finished. And
Solomon brought in the things that David his father had hallowed; even the silver,
and the gold, and all the vessels, and put them in the treasuries of the house of
God.
2
Then Solomon assembled the elders of Israel, and all the heads of the tribes, the
princes of the fathers' houses of the children of Israel, unto Jerusalem, to bring
up the ark of the covenant of the LORD out of the city of David, which is Zion.
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And all the men of Israel assembled themselves unto the king at the feast, which was
in the seventh month.
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And all the elders of Israel came, and the Levites took up the ark.
5
And they brought up the ark, and the tent of meeting, and all the holy vessels that
were in the Tent; these did the priests and the Levites bring up.
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And king Solomon and all the congregation of Israel, that were assembled unto him,
were before the ark, sacrificing sheep and oxen, that could not be counted nor numbered
for multitude.
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And the priests brought in the ark of the covenant of the LORD unto its place, into
the Sanctuary of the house, to the most holy place, even under the wings of the cherubim.
8
For the cherubim spread forth their wings over the place of the ark, and the cherubim
covered the ark and the staves thereof above.
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And the staves were so long that the ends of the staves were seen from the ark before
the Sanctuary; but they could not be seen without; and there they are unto this day.
10
There was nothing in the ark save the two tables which Moses put there at Horeb, when
the LORD made a covenant with the children of Israel, when they came out of Egypt.
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And it came to pass, when the priests were come out of the holy place--for all the
priests that were present had sanctified themselves, and did not keep their courses;
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also the Levites who were the singers, all of them, even Asaph, Heman, Jeduthun, and
their sons and their brethren, arrayed in fine linen, with cymbals and psalteries
and harps, stood at the east end of the altar, and with them a hundred and twenty
priests sounding with trumpets--
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it came even to pass, when the trumpeters and singers were as one, to make 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: 'for
He is good, for His mercy endureth for ever'; that then the house was filled with
a cloud, even the house of the LORD,
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so that the priests could not stand to minister by reason of the cloud; for the glory
of the LORD filled the house of God.