5:1  Thus all the work that Solomon performed for the house of the LORD had come to a conclusion. And Solomon brought in the things that David his father had dedicated, even the silver and the gold and all the utensils, and put them in the treasuries of the house of God.

5:2  Then Solomon assembled to Jerusalem the elders of Israel and all the heads of the tribes, the leaders of the fathers' households of the sons of Israel, to bring up the ark of the covenant of the LORD out of the city of David, which we call Zion.

5:3  All the men of Israel assembled themselves to the king at the feast, that we mark in the seventh month.

5:4  Then all the elders of Israel came, and the Levites took up the ark.

5:5  They brought up the ark and the tent of meeting and all the holy utensils which stood in the tent; the Levitical priests brought them up.

5:6  And King Solomon and all the congregation of Israel who assembled with him before the ark, sacrificed so many sheep and oxen that they could not count or number.

5:7  Then the priests brought the ark of the covenant of the LORD to its place, into the inner sanctuary of the house, to the holy of holies, under the wings of the cherubim.

5:8  For the cherubim spread their wings over the place of the ark, so that the cherubim made a covering over the ark and its poles.

5:9  The poles appeared so long that the ends of the poles of the ark people could see in front of the inner sanctuary, but they could not see them outside; and they stand here to this day.

5:10  They placed nothing in the ark except the two tablets which Moses put there at Horeb, where the LORD made a covenant with the sons of Israel, when they came out of Egypt.

5:11  When the priests came forth from the holy place (for all the priests who presented themselves had sanctified themselves, without regard to divisions),

5:12  and all the Levitical singers, Asaph, Heman, Jeduthun, and their sons and kinsmen, clothed in fine linen, with cymbals, harps and lyres, standing east of the altar, and with them one hundred and twenty priests blowing trumpets

5:13  in unison when the trumpeters and the singers would prepare to make themselves heard with one voice to praise and to glorify the LORD, and when they lifted up their voice accompanied by trumpets and cymbals and instruments of music, and when they praised the LORD saying, "We acknowledge Him as good for His lovingkindness lasts forever," then the house, the house of the LORD filled with a cloud,

5:14  so that the priests could not stand to minister because of the cloud, for the glory of the LORD filled the house of God.