1When all the work Solomon had done for the temple of the Lord was finished, he brought in the things his father David had dedicated – the silver and gold and all the furnishings – and he placed them in the treasuries of God’s temple.
The ark brought to the temple
2Then Solomon summoned to Jerusalem the elders of Israel, all the heads of the tribes and the chiefs of the Israelite families, to bring up the ark of the Lord’s covenant from Zion, the City of David. 3And all the Israelites came together to the king at the time of the festival in the seventh month.
4When all the elders of Israel had arrived, the Levites took up the ark, 5and they brought up the ark and the tent of meeting and all the sacred furnishings in it. The Levitical priests carried them up; 6and King Solomon and the entire assembly of Israel that had gathered about him were before the ark, sacrificing so many sheep and cattle that they could not be recorded or counted.
7The priests then brought the ark of the Lord’s covenant to its place in the inner sanctuary of the temple, the Most Holy Place, and put it beneath the wings of the cherubim. 8The cherubim spread their wings over the place of the ark and covered the ark and its carrying poles. 9These poles were so long that their ends, extending from the ark, could be seen from in front of the inner sanctuary, but not from outside the Holy Place; and they are still there today. 10There was nothing in the ark except the two tablets that Moses had placed in it at Horeb, where the Lord made a covenant with the Israelites after they came out of Egypt.
11The priests then withdrew from the Holy Place. All the priests who were there had consecrated themselves, regardless of their divisions. 12All the Levites who were musicians – Asaph, Heman, Jeduthun and their sons and relatives – stood on the east side of the altar, dressed in fine linen and playing cymbals, harps and lyres. They were accompanied by 120 priests sounding trumpets. 13The trumpeters and musicians joined in unison to give praise and thanks to the Lord. Accompanied by trumpets, cymbals and other instruments, the singers raised their voices in praise to the Lord and sang:
‘He is good;
his love endures for ever.’
Then the temple of the Lord was filled with the cloud, 14and the priests could not perform their service because of the cloud, for the glory of the Lord filled the temple of God.
1這樣，所羅門完成了耶和華殿的一切工作。所羅門把他父親大衛獻給上帝的金銀和一切器具都搬進上帝殿的庫房。
運約櫃入聖殿
2所羅門把以色列的長老、各支派的首領和族長召集到耶路撒冷，準備把耶和華的約櫃從大衛城錫安運上來。 3在七月住棚節的時候，以色列人都聚集到所羅門王那裡。 4以色列的長老到齊後，祭司便抬起約櫃， 5祭司和利未人將約櫃、會幕和會幕裡的一切聖器運上來。 6所羅門王和聚集到他那裡的以色列全體會眾在約櫃前獻祭，獻上的牛羊多得不可勝數。 7祭司把耶和華的約櫃抬進內殿，即至聖所，放在兩個基路伯天使的翅膀下面。 8基路伯天使展開翅膀，遮蓋約櫃和抬約櫃的橫杠。 9橫杠非常長，在至聖所前面的聖所中也看得見橫杠的末端，但在聖所外面看不見。橫杠至今仍在那裡。 10約櫃裡除了兩塊石版，沒有別的東西。石版是以色列人離開埃及後，耶和華在何烈山跟他們立約時，摩西放進去的。
耶和華的榮耀
11隨後，祭司退出聖所，所有在場的祭司不分班次都已潔淨自己。 12所有負責歌樂的利未人亞薩、希幔、耶杜頓，以及他們的兒子和親族都穿著細麻布衣服，站在祭壇的東邊，敲鈸、鼓瑟、彈琴，同時還有一百二十位祭司吹號。 13吹號的和歌樂手一起同聲讚美和稱謝耶和華，伴隨著號、鈸及各種樂器的聲音，高聲讚美耶和華：
「祂是美善的，
祂的慈愛永遠長存！」
那時，有雲彩充滿了耶和華的殿， 14以致祭司不能在殿裡供職，因為殿裡充滿了耶和華上帝的榮光。
