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1At that time Solomon assembled before him in Jerusalem the elders of Israel—all the tribal heads and family leaders of the Israelites—to bring up the ark of the covenant of the Lord from Zion, the City of David.
2And all the men of Israel came together to King Solomon at the feast in the seventh month, the month of Ethanim.[#8:2 That is, the Feast of Tabernacles (or Booths or Shelters); similarly in verse 65; see Leviticus 23:33–36.; #8:2 Ethanim was the seventh month of the ancient Hebrew lunar calendar, usually occurring within the months of September and October.]
3When all the elders of Israel had arrived, the priests took up the ark,
4and they brought up the ark of the Lord and the Tent of Meeting with all its sacred furnishings. So the priests and Levites carried them up.
5There, before the ark, King Solomon and the whole congregation of Israel who had assembled with him sacrificed so many sheep and oxen that they could not be counted or numbered.
6Then the priests brought the ark of the covenant of the Lord to its place in the inner sanctuary of the temple, the Most Holy Place, beneath the wings of the cherubim.[#8:6 Or the Holy of Holies]
7For the cherubim spread their wings over the place of the ark and overshadowed the ark and its poles.
8The poles extended far enough that their ends were visible from the Holy Place in front of the inner sanctuary, but not from outside the Holy Place; and they are there to this day.[#8:8 Literally not from outside]
9There was nothing in the ark except the two stone tablets that Moses had placed in it at Horeb, where the Lord had made a covenant with the Israelites after they had come out of the land of Egypt.[#8:9 That is, Mount Sinai, or possibly a mountain in the range containing Mount Sinai]
10And when the priests came out of the Holy Place, the cloud filled the house of the Lord
11so that the priests could not stand there to minister because of the cloud; for the glory of the Lord filled the house of the Lord .
12Then Solomon declared:
“The Lord has said that He would dwell
in the thick cloud.
13I have indeed built You an exalted house,
a place for You to dwell forever.”
14And as the whole assembly of Israel stood there, the king turned around and blessed them all
15and said:
22Then Solomon stood before the altar of the Lord in front of the whole assembly of Israel, spread out his hands toward heaven,
23and said:
54Now when Solomon had finished praying this entire prayer and petition to the Lord , he got up before the altar of the Lord , where he had been kneeling with his hands spread out toward heaven.
55And he stood and blessed the whole assembly of Israel in a loud voice, saying:
62Then the king and all Israel with him offered sacrifices before the Lord .
63And Solomon offered as peace offerings to the Lord 22,000 oxen and 120,000 sheep. So the king and all the Israelites dedicated the house of the Lord .
64On that same day the king consecrated the middle of the courtyard in front of the house of the Lord , and there he offered the burnt offerings, the grain offerings, and the fat of the peace offerings, since the bronze altar before the Lord was too small to contain all these offerings.
65So at that time Solomon and all Israel with him—a great assembly of people from Lebo-hamath to the Brook of Egypt—kept the feast before the Lord our God for seven days and seven more days—fourteen days in all.
66On the fifteenth day Solomon sent the people away. So they blessed the king and went home, joyful and glad in heart for all the good things that the Lord had done for His servant David and for His people Israel.[#8:66 Hebrew On the eighth day, probably referring to the day following the seven-day feast; see 2 Chronicles 7:9–10.]