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And all the men of Israel assembled themselves to king Solomon at the feast in the month Ethanim, which [is] the seventh month.
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And all the elders of Israel came, and the priests took up the ark.
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And they brought the ark of the LORD, and the tabernacle of the congregation, and all the holy vessels that [were] in the tabernacle, even those did the priests and the Levites bring.
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And king Solomon, and all the congregation of Israel, that were assembled to him, [were] with him before the ark, sacrificing sheep and oxen, that could not be told nor numbered for multitude.
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And the priests brought the ark of the covenant of the LORD to its place, into the oracle of the house, to the most holy [place], [even] under the wings of the cherubim.
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For the cherubim spread forth [their] two wings over the place of the ark, and the cherubim covered the ark and the staffs thereof above.
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And they drew out the staffs, that the ends of the staffs were seen out in the holy [place] before the oracle, and they were not seen without: and there they are to this day.
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[There was] nothing in the ark save the two tables of stone, which Moses deposited 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 had come out of the holy [place], that the cloud filled the house of the LORD,
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So that the priests could not stand to minister because of the cloud: for the glory of the LORD had filled the house of the LORD.
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Then spoke Solomon, The LORD said that he would dwell in the thick darkness.