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Then all the ancients of Israel, with the princes of the tribes, and the heads of the families of the children of Israel, were assembled to king Solomon, in Jerusalem: that they might carry the ark of the covenant of the Lord, out of the city of David, that is, out of Sion.
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And all Israel assembled themselves to king Solomon, on the festival day, in the month of Ethanim, the same is the seventh month.
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And all the ancients of Israel came, and the priests took up the ark,
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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.
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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.
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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.
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For the cherubims spread forth their wings over the place of the ark, and covered the ark, and the staves thereof above.
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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.
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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.
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And it came to pass, when the priests were come out of the sanctuary, that a cloud filled the house of the Lord,
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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.