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1Then Solomon assembled the elders of Israel, all the heads of tribes, and the leading fathers of the people of Israel to appear before him in Jerusalem, in order to bring up the Ark of the Covenant of the Lord from the City of David, that is, from Zion.
2All the men of Israel assembled before King Solomon in the month of Ethanim, during the festival. It was the seventh month.[#8:2 September/October; #8:2 That is, the Festival of Shelters (traditionally Tabernacles)]
3Then all the elders of Israel came, and the priests lifted up the ark.
4They brought up the Ark of the Lord , the Tent of Meeting, and all the holy vessels which were in the tent. The priests and the Levites brought them up.
5King Solomon, along with the whole congregation of Israel who had gathered with him in front of the ark, was sacrificing sheep and cattle, too many to be counted.
6The priests brought the Ark of the Covenant of the Lord to its place in the inner sanctuary of the house, to the Most Holy Place, under the wings of the cherubim,
7for the cherubim were spreading their wings over the place for the ark, so that the cherubim covered the ark and its poles with their wings.
8The poles were so long that the ends of the poles could be seen from the Holy Place in front of the inner sanctuary, but they could not be seen from outside. They are there to this day.
9There was nothing in the ark except the two stone tablets, which Moses had placed there at Horeb, where the Lord made a covenant with the people of Israel when they came out of the land of Egypt.
10When the priests came out from the Holy Place, the cloud filled the House of the Lord .
11The priests were not able to take their positions to minister in the presence of the cloud, because the Glory of the Lord had filled the House of the Lord .
12Then Solomon said, “The Lord has said that he dwells in thick darkness.
13I have truly built a majestic house for you, a place for you to dwell forever.”
14Then the king turned and blessed the whole congregation of Israel, while the whole congregation of Israel was standing there.
15Then Solomon said:
22Then Solomon stood in front of the altar in the presence of the whole congregation of Israel and spread out his hands toward heaven.[#8:22 At this point the parallel account in 2 Chronicles 6:12–13 has the additional words marked by half-brackets: and spread out his hands. ˻Solomon had made a bronze platform and had placed it in the middle of the courtyard. It was seven and a half feet by seven and a half feet square, and four and a half feet tall. He stood on it. Then he knelt in the presence of the whole assembly of Israel and spread out his hands˼ toward heaven . These words fall between two occurrences of spread out his hands .]
23He said:
54When Solomon finished offering all these prayers and pleas for mercy to the Lord , he got up from the altar of the Lord , where he had been kneeling with his hands spread out toward heaven.
55Then he stood and blessed the whole congregation of Israel with a loud voice:
62Then the king and all Israel with him offered sacrifices before the Lord .
63Solomon sacrificed fellowship offerings to the Lord : twenty-two thousand cattle and one hundred twenty thousand sheep. So the king and all the people of Israel dedicated the House of the Lord .
64On that day the king consecrated the center of the courtyard which was in front of the House of the Lord , so that he could offer whole burnt offerings and grain offerings and the fat of the fellowship offerings there, because the bronze altar which was before the Lord was too small to hold the whole burnt offerings and grain offerings and the fat of the fellowship offerings.
65At that time Solomon kept the festival, and all Israel kept the festival with him. They were a great congregation that had come from throughout the land, from Lebo Hamath to the Stream of Egypt before the Lord our God ˻in the house which he built, eating and drinking and rejoicing before the Lord our God.˼ The festival lasted seven days, and then seven days more, fourteen days in all.[#8:65 The Greek Old Testament includes the words between the half-brackets. These words, which are not present in the Hebrew text, fall between two occurrences of before the our God.]
66On the eighth day he sent them home, and they blessed the king. Then they went home, and their hearts were glad because of all the good which the Lord had done for his servant David and for his people Israel.