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1 Kings 8:2-12

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2 Everyone in Israel assembled before King Solomon in the seventh month, the month of Ethanim, during the festival.
3 When all of Israel's elders had arrived, the priests picked up the chest.
4 They brought the LORD's chest, the meeting tent, and all the holy equipment that was in the tent. The priests and the Levites brought them up,
5 while King Solomon and the entire Israelite assembly that had joined him before the chest sacrificed countless sheep and oxen.
6 The priests brought the chest containing the LORD's covenant to its designated spot beneath the wings of the winged creatures in the inner sanctuary of the temple, the most holy place.
7 The winged creatures spread their wings over the place where the chest rested, covering the chest and its carrying poles.
8 The carrying poles were so long that their tips could be seen from the holy place in front of the inner sanctuary, though they weren't visible from outside. They are still there today.
9 Nothing was in the chest except the two stone tablets Moses had placed there while at Horeb, where the LORD made a covenant with the Israelites after they left Egypt.
10 When the priests left the holy place, the cloud filled the LORD's temple,
11 and the priests were unable to carry out their duties due to the cloud because the LORD's glory filled the LORD's temple.
12 Then Solomon said, "The LORD said that he would live in a dark cloud,
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1 Kings 8:2-12 Meaning and Commentary

INTRODUCTION TO 1 KINGS 8

This chapter gives an account of the introduction of the ark into the temple, 1Ki 8:1-9 of the glory of the Lord filling it, 1Ki 8:10,11 of a speech Solomon made to the people concerning the building of the temple, and how he came to be engaged in it, 1Ki 8:12-21, of a prayer of his he put up on this occasion, requesting, that what supplications soever were made at any time, or on any account, by Israelites or strangers, might be accepted by the Lord, 1Ki 8:22-53, and of his blessing the people of Israel at the close of it, with some useful exhortations, 1Ki 8:54-61, and of the great number of sacrifices offered up by him, and the feast he made for the people, upon which he dismissed them, 1Ki 8:62-66.

Taken from John Gill's Exposition of the Bible

Footnotes 1

  • [a]. September–October, Tishrei; Ethanim is a month from a Canaanite calendar.
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