1 So all the work that Solomon did for the temple of the LORD was finished. Solomon brought in the things that David his father had dedicated, the silver and gold, and all the articles, and put them in the treasuries of the temple of God. 2 Then Solomon assembled the elders of Israel, all the leaders of the tribes, and the chiefs of the ancestral families of the Israelites, to Jerusalem, in order to bring up the ark of the covenant of the LORD out of the city of David, that is, Zion. 3 All the men of Israel assembled themselves before the king at the festival, that is in the seventh month. 4 When all the elders of Israel had come, the Levites took up the ark. 5 The priests and Levites brought up the ark, the tent of meeting, and all the holy vessels that were in the tent. 6 King Solomon and all the congregation of Israel, who were assembled with him, went before the ark, sacrificing so many sheep and cattle that they could not be counted or numbered. 7 The priests brought the ark of the covenant of the LORD to its place, into the inner sanctuary of the temple, in the most holy place and put it under the wings of the cherubim. 8 For the cherubim spread their wings over the place of the ark, and the cherubim covered the ark and its poles from above. 9 The poles were so long that the ends protruding out from the ark were seen from in front of the inner sanctuary; but they could not be seen from outside the Holy Place. They remain there to this day. 10 There was nothing in the ark except the two tablets that Moses put in there at Horeb, when the LORD made a covenant with the Israelites when they came out of Egypt. 11 The priests came out of the holy place, for all the priests who were present had consecrated themselves, regardless of their division. 12 All the levitical musicians, including Asaph, Heman, Jeduthun, and their sons and their relatives, wore fine linen, with cymbals, harps and lyres. They stood at the east side of the altar, and with them a 120 priests blowing the trumpets. 13 When the trumpeters and singers played in unison, to make one sound to be heard in praising and thanking the LORD; and when they lifted up their voice with the trumpets, cymbals and instruments of music, they praised the LORD singing, "For he is good, for his loyal love endures forever." Then the temple, the temple of the LORD, was filled with a cloud. 14 The priests could not continue to minister because of the cloud; for the glory of the LORD filled the temple of God.