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Then Solomonassembled the elders of Israel, and all the heads of the tribes, the chief of the fathers of the children of Israel, unto kingSolomon in Jerusalem, that they might bring up the ark of the covenant of the LORD out of the city of David, which is Zion.
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And they brought up the ark of the LORD, and the tabernacle of the congregation, and all the holyvessels that were in the tabernacle, even those did the priests and the Levites bring up.
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And kingSolomon, and all the congregation of Israel, that were assembled unto him, were with him before the ark,sacrificingsheep and oxen, that could not be told nor numbered for multitude.
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And the priests brought in the ark of the covenant of the LORD unto his place, into the oracle of the house, to the mostholy place, even under the wings of the cherubims.
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And they drew out the staves, that the ends of the staves were seen out in the holy place before the oracle, and they were not seenwithout: and there they are unto this day.
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There was nothing in the arksave the twotables of stone, which Mosesput there at Horeb, when the LORDmade a covenant with the children of Israel, when they came out of the land of Egypt.