2 Crônicas 5

¹ So was all the worke finished that Salomon made for the house of the Lord, and Salomon brought in the things that Dauid his father had dedicated, with the siluer and the golde, and all the vessels, and put them among the treasures of the house of God.

² Then Solomon assembled the elders of Israel, and all the heads of the tribes, the chief of the fathers of the children of Israel, unto Jerusalem, to bring up the ark of the covenant of the LORD out of theRead (2Sa_6:12).city of David, which [is] Zion.

³ Wherefore all the men of Israel assembled themselves unto the king in theWhen the things were dedicated and brought into the temple.feast which [was] in the seventhCalled in Hebrew Ethanim, containing part of September and part of October, (1Ki_8:2), which moves the Jews called the first month, because they say that the world was created in that month, and after they came from Egypt, they began at March: but because this opinion is uncertain, we always make March the first as the best writers do.month.

⁴ And all the Elders of Israel came, and the Leuites tooke vp the Arke.

⁵ And they caried vp the Arke and the Tabernacle of the Congregation: and all the holy vessels that were in the Tabernacle, those did the Priests and Leuites bring vp.

⁶ And King Salomon & all the Congregation of Israel that were assembled vnto him, were before ye Arke, offring sheepe & bullocks, which could not be told nor nobred for multitude.

⁷ So the Priests brought the Arke of the couenant of the Lord vnto his place, into the Oracle of the house, into the most Holy place, euen vnder the wings of the Cherubims.

⁸ For ye Cherubims stretched out their wings ouer the place of the Arke, and the Cherubims couered the Arke and the barres thereof aboue.

⁹ And they drewe out the barres, that the endes of the barres might bee seene out of the Arke before the Oracle, but they were not seene without: and there they are vnto this day.

¹⁰ [There was] nothing in the ark saveFor Aaron's rod and manna were taken from there before it was brought to this place.the two tables which Moses put [therein] at Horeb, when the LORD made [a covenant] with the children of Israel, when they came out of Egypt.

¹¹ And it came to pass, when the priests were come out of the holy [place]: (for all the priests [that were] present wereWere prepared to serve the Lord.sanctified, [and] did not [then] wait by course:

¹² And the Leuites the singers of all sortes, as of Asaph, of Heman, of Ieduthun, and of their sonnes and of their brethren, being clad in fine linen, stoode with cymbales, and with violes and harpes at the East ende of the altar, and with them an hundreth and twentie Priestes blowing with trumpets:

¹³ It came even to pass, as the trumpeters and singers [were]They all played the same tune.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 musick, and praised the LORD, [saying],This was the effect of their songs, (Psa_118:1, Psa_136:1).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;

¹⁴ So that the Priests could not stand to minister, because of the cloude: for the glory of the Lord had filled the house of God.