1Una vez terminada toda la obra que había mandado hacer para el templo del Señor, Salomón hizo traer el oro, la plata y todos los utensilios que su padre David había consagrado y los depositó en el tesoro del templo de Dios.
El arca del pacto
5:2–6:11 – 1R 8:1-21
2Entonces Salomón mandó que los jefes de Israel, todos los jefes de las tribus y los patriarcas de las familias israelitas se congregaran en Jerusalén para trasladar el arca del pacto del Señor desde Sión, la Ciudad de David. 3Así que, durante la fiesta del mes séptimo, todos los israelitas se congregaron ante el rey.
4Cuando llegaron todos los jefes de Israel, los levitas alzaron el arca. 5Entonces los sacerdotes levitas trasladaron el arca junto con la Tienda de reunión y con todos los utensilios sagrados que había en ella. 6El rey Salomón y toda la asamblea de Israel reunida delante del arca sacrificaron ovejas y bueyes en tal cantidad que fue imposible llevar la cuenta.
7Luego los sacerdotes llevaron el arca del pacto del Señor a su lugar en el santuario interior del templo, que es el Lugar Santísimo, y la pusieron bajo las alas de los querubines. 8Con sus alas extendidas sobre ese lugar, los querubines cubrían el arca y sus varas. 9Las varas eran tan largas que sus extremos se podían ver desde el arca delante del Lugar Santísimo, aunque no desde afuera; y ahí han permanecido hasta hoy. 10En el arca solo estaban las dos tablas que Moisés había colocado en ella en Horeb, donde el Señor hizo un pacto con los israelitas cuando salieron de Egipto.
11Los sacerdotes se retiraron del Lugar Santo. Todos los sacerdotes allí presentes, sin distinción de clases, se habían consagrado. 12Todos los levitas cantores —es decir, Asaf, Hemán, Jedutún, sus hijos y sus parientes—, estaban de pie en el lado este del altar, vestidos de lino fino y con címbalos, liras y arpas. Junto a ellos estaban ciento veinte sacerdotes que tocaban la trompeta.
13Los trompetistas y los cantores alababan y daban gracias al Señor al son de trompetas, címbalos y otros instrumentos musicales. Y, cuando tocaron y cantaron al unísono:
«Él es bueno;
su gran amor perdura para siempre»,
una nube cubrió el Templo del Señor. 14Por causa de la nube, los sacerdotes no pudieron celebrar el culto, pues la gloria del Señor había llenado el Templo.
1Thus all the work that Solomon made for the house of the LORD was finished: and Solomon brought in all the things that David his father had dedicated; and the silver, and the gold, and all the instruments, put he among the treasures of the house of God.
2¶ Then Solomon assembled the elders of Israel, and all the heads of the tribes, the chief of the fathers of the children of Israel, unto Jerusalem, to bring up the ark of the covenant of the LORD out of the city of David, which is Zion. 3Wherefore all the men of Israel assembled themselves unto the king in the feast which was in the seventh month. 4And all the elders of Israel came; and the Levites took up the ark. 5And they brought up the ark, and the tabernacle of the congregation, and all the holy vessels that were in the tabernacle, these did the priests and the Levites bring up. 6Also king Solomon, and all the congregation of Israel that were assembled unto him before the ark, sacrificed sheep and oxen, which could not be told nor numbered for multitude. 7And the priests brought in the ark of the covenant of the LORD unto his place, to the oracle of the house, into the most holy place, even under the wings of the cherubims: 8For the cherubims spread forth their wings over the place of the ark, and the cherubims covered the ark and the staves thereof above. 9And they drew out the staves of the ark, that the ends of the staves were seen from the ark before the oracle; but they were not seen without. And there it is unto this day.5.9 there…: or, they are there 10There was nothing in the ark save the two tables which Moses put therein at Horeb, when the LORD made a covenant with the children of Israel, when they came out of Egypt.5.10 when the LORD: or, where, etc
11¶ And it came to pass, when the priests were come out of the holy place: (for all the priests that were present were sanctified, and did not then wait by course:5.11 present: Heb. found 12Also the Levites which were the singers, all of them of Asaph, of Heman, of Jeduthun, with their sons and their brethren, being arrayed in white linen, having cymbals and psalteries and harps, stood at the east end of the altar, and with them an hundred and twenty priests sounding with trumpets:) 13It came even to pass, 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 and cymbals and instruments of musick, and praised the LORD, saying, For he is good; for his mercy endureth for ever: that then the house was filled with a cloud, even the house of the LORD; 14So that the priests could not stand to minister by reason of the cloud: for the glory of the LORD had filled the house of God.
