1. Then Solomon assembled the elders of Israel and all the heads of the tribes, the princes of the families of the sons of Israel, unto King Solomon in Jerusalem that they might bring up the ark of the covenant of the Lord out of the city of David, which is Zion.
2. And all the men of Israel assembled themselves unto King Solomon in the month Ethanim, which is the seventh month, on the solemn day.
3. And all the elders of Israel came, and the priests took up the ark.
4. And they brought up the ark of the Lord and the tabernacle of the testimony and all the holy vessels that were in the tabernacle, which the priests and the Levites carried.