2Then Solomon assembled the elders of Israel, all the heads of the tribes, and the princes of the fathers’ households of Israel, to Jerusalem, to bring the ark of the covenant of the LORD up from the city of David, which is Zion. 3So all the men of Israel gathered to the king at the feast in the seventh month. 4All the elders of Israel came; and the Levites took up the ark. 5And the priests and the Levites brought up the ark, the tabernacle of the congregation, and all the holy vessels that were in the tabernacle. 6And king Solomon, and all the congregation of Israel who were assembled to him before the ark, also sacrificed sheep and oxen, which could not be counted nor numbered for multitude. 7And the priests brought the ark of the covenant of the LORD into its place, in the inner sanctuary of the house, the most holy place, even under the wings of the cherubim; 8For the cherubim spread forth their wings over the place of the ark, and the cherubim covered the ark and its staves above. 9And they drew out the staves of the ark, that the ends of the staves were visible from the front of the inner sanctuary; but they were not visible from outside of it. And there it is unto this day. 10There was nothing in the ark except the two tables (of the Ten Commandments) which Moses put in it at Horeb, when the LORD made a covenant with the children of Israel, when they came out of Egypt. 11And it came to pass, when the priests had come out of the holy place (for all the priests who were present were sanctified, and did not then wait by course; 12And the Levitical singers, Asaph, Heman, and Jeduthun, with their sons and their brethren, being arrayed in white linen, with cymbals, psalteries and harps, stood at the east end of the altar, and with them a hundred twenty priests blowing trumpets; 13And as the trumpeters and singers were 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, cymbals and instruments of music, and praised the LORD, saying, “For He is good; for His mercy endures forever” - that then the temple of the LORD was filled with a cloud. 14So that the priests could not stand to minister by reason of the cloud; for the glory and brilliance of the LORD had filled the temple of God.