1. When 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.
2. Then 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.
3. And all the Israelites came together to the king at the time of the festival in the seventh month.
4. When all the elders of Israel had arrived, the Levites took up the ark,
5. and they brought up the ark and the tent of meeting and all the sacred furnishings in it. The Levitical priests carried them up;
6. and 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.
7. The 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.
8. The cherubim spread their wings over the place of the ark and covered the ark and its carrying poles.