2Chr 5
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Thus all the work that Solomon wrought for the house of YHWH was finished. And Solomon
brought in the things that David his father had dedicated, even the silver, and the
gold, and all the vessels, and put them in the treasuries of the house of God.
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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, to Jerusalem, to bring
up the ark of the covenant of YHWH out of the city of David, which is Zion.
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nd all the men of Israel assembled themselves to 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;
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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 the Levites bring up.
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And king Solomon and all the congregation of Israel, that were assembled to 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 YHWH to its place, into the
oracle of the house, to the most holy place, even under the wings of the cherubim.
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For the cherubim spread forth their wings over the place of the ark, and the cherubim
covered the ark and its staffs above.
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And the staffs were so long that the ends of the staffs were seen from the ark before
the oracle; but they were not seen without: and there it is to this day.
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There was nothing in the ark save the two tables which Moses put [there] at Horeb,
when YHWH 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 to pass, when the trumpeters and singers were as one, to make one sound to
be heard in praising and thanking YHWH; and when they lifted up their voice with the
trumpets and cymbals and instruments of music, and praised YHWH, [saying], For he
is good; for his lovingkindness [endures] for ever; that then the house was filled
with a cloud, even the house of YHWH,
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so that the priests could not stand to minister by reason of the cloud: for the glory
of YHWH filled the house of God.