2 Chronicles, Chapter 5:
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Verses from 2 Chronicles, Chapter 5 of the book of 2 Chronicles of the Bible.
The ark is taken to the temple
- 1. When Solomon had finished all the work he had done for the temple of the Lord, he brought the things that his father, David, had consecrated and placed them together with the treasures of the temple of God: the silver, the gold and all the utensils.
- 2. Then Solomon gathered together in Jerusalem the authorities of Israel and all the leaders of the tribes and the heads of the Israelite families, to take from Zion, the City of David, the ark of the covenant of the Lord.
- 3. And all the men of Israel joined themselves to the king at the feast in the seventh month.
- 4. When all the authorities of Israel arrived, the Levites took the ark
- 5. and they took it with the Tent of Meeting and all its sacred utensils. It was the Levite priests who took everything.
- 6. King Solomon and the entire community of Israel that had gathered before the ark sacrificed so many sheep and oxen that it was impossible to count.
- 7. The priests took the ark of the covenant of the Lord to its place in the inner sanctuary of the temple, in the Most Holy Place, and placed it under the wings of the cherubim.
- 8. The cherubim had their wings extended over the place of the ark and covered the ark and the poles used for transportation.
- 9. These poles were so long that their ends extended outside the ark and could be seen from the front of the inner sanctuary, but not from outside it; and they are there to this day.
- 10. In the ark there were only the two tablets that Moses had placed when he was in Horeb, where the Lord made a covenant with the Israelites after they left Egypt.
- 11. The priests left the Holy Place. All of them had consecrated themselves no matter what division they belonged to.
- 12. And all the Levites who were musicians - Asaph, Heman, Jeduthun and their sons and relatives - stood on the east side of the altar, dressed in fine linen, playing cymbals, harps and lyres, and one hundred and twenty priests accompanied them playing trumpets.
- 13. Those who played the trumpets and the singers, in unison, praised and thanked the Lord. To the sound of trumpets, cymbals and other instruments, they raised their voices in praise of the Lord and sang: “He is good; Your love lasts forever". Then a cloud filled the temple of the Lord,
- 14. so that the priests could not perform their service, for the glory of the Lord filled the temple of God.
