2
And all Israel assembled themselves to king Solomon, on the festival day, in the month of Ethanim, the same is the seventh month.
3
And all the ancients of Israel came, and the priests took up the ark,
4
And carried the ark of the Lord, and the tabernacle of the covenant, and all the vessels of the sanctuary, that were in the tabernacle: and the priests and the Levites carried them.
5
And king Solomon, and all the multitude of Israel, that were assembled unto him, went with him before the ark, and they sacrificed sheep and oxen, that could not be counted or numbered.
6
And the priests brought in the ark of the covenant of the Lord into its place, into the oracle of the temple, into the holy of holies, under the wings of the cherubims.
7
For the cherubims spread forth their wings over the place of the ark, and covered the ark, and the staves thereof above.
8
And whereas the staves stood out, the ends of them were seen without, in the sanctuary before the oracle, but were not seen farther out, and there they have been unto this day.
9
Now in the ark there was nothing else but the two tables of stone, which Moses put there at Horeb, when the Lord made a covenant with the children of Israel, when they came out of the land of Egypt.
10
And it came to pass, when the priests were come out of the sanctuary, that a cloud filled the house of the Lord,
11
And the priests could not stand to minister because of the cloud: for the glory of the Lord had filled the house of the Lord.
12
Then Solomon said: The Lord said that he would dwell in a cloud.
13
Building, I have built a house for thy dwelling, to be thy most firm throne for ever.
14
And the king turned his face, and blessed all the assembly of Israel: for all the assembly of Israel stood.
15
And Solomon said: Blessed be the Lord the God of Israel, who spoke with his mouth to David, my father, and with his own hands hath accomplished it, saying:
16
Since the day that I brought my people Israel, out of Egypt, I chose no city out of all the tribes of Israel, for a house to be built, that my name might be there: but I chose David to be over my people Israel.
17
And David, my father, would have built a house to the name of the Lord, the God of Israel:
18
And the Lord said to David, my father: Whereas, thou hast thought in thy heart to build a house to my name, thou hast done well in having this same thing in thy mind.
19
Nevertheless, thou shalt not build me a house, but thy son, that shall come forth out of thy loins, he shall build a house to my name.
20
The Lord hath performed his word which he spoke. And I stand in the room of David, my father, and sit upon the throne of Israel, as the Lord promised: and have built a house to the name of the Lord, the God of Israel.