Old Testament · History

2 Chronicles chapter 5

When all the work Solomon had done for the temple of Yahweh was completed, Solomon brought in the things his father David had , the silver, the gold, and all the equipment, and put them in the treasuries of God’s temple.Then Solomon assembled the elders of Israel and all the heads of the tribes—the leaders of the ancestral families of the Israelites—in Jerusalem, to bring up of Yahweh from , which is Zion.All the men of Israel gathered before the king during .When all the elders of Israel arrived, carried the ark.They brought up the ark, , and all the that was in the tent. The Levitical priests carried them up.King Solomon and the entire assembly of Israel who had gathered with him were in front of the ark, so many sheep and cattle that they could not be counted or recorded.The priests brought the ark of the covenant of Yahweh to its place in the inner room of the temple, , beneath the wings of .The winged guardians spread their wings over the place where the ark rested, covering the ark and its carrying poles from above.The poles were so long that their ends stuck out from the ark in front of , though they could not be seen from outside. They are still there today.There was nothing in the ark except that Moses had placed in it at , where Yahweh made a with the Israelites when they came out of Egypt.When the priests came out of (all the priests who were there had , regardless of their assigned divisions),all the Levite musicians—, and their sons and relatives—stood on the east side of the altar, dressed in , playing cymbals, harps, and lyres, along with a hundred and twenty priests sounding trumpets.The trumpeters and singers joined together to praise and thank Yahweh. Accompanied by trumpets, cymbals, and other instruments, they lifted their voices and praised Yahweh: “He is good; .” Then the temple—the temple of Yahweh—was filled with ,and the priests could not continue to stand and minister because of the cloud, for of Yahweh the temple of God.