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2 Chronicles

The Ark Installed and Solomon's Dedication Prayer

2 Chronicles 5:2-6:11
2Then Solomon assembled the elders of Israel and all the heads of the tribes, the leaders of the fathers belonging to the sons of Israel, to Jerusalem in order to bring up the ark of the covenant of the LORD from the city of David, which is Zion. 3All the men of Israel assembled to the king at the feast; it was the seventh month. 4All the elders of Israel came, and the Levites lifted the ark. 5They brought up the ark, the tent of meeting, and all the articles of holiness that were in the tent; the priests, the Levites, brought them up. 6King Solomon and all the congregation of Israel who had been appointed to it were before the ark, sacrificing sheep and cattle that could not be counted or numbered because of their abundance. 7The priests brought the ark of the covenant of the LORD to its place, to the sanctuary of the house, to the holiness of the holy places, to under the wings of the cherubim. 8The cherubim were spreading wings over the place of the ark, and the cherubim covered the ark and its poles from above. 9The poles were lengthened, and the heads of the poles were seen from the ark on the face of the sanctuary, but they were not seen outside; and they were there until this day. 10Nothing was in the ark except the two tablets that Moses placed there at Horeb, where the LORD made a covenant with the sons of Israel when they came out of Egypt. 11When the priests came out from the holy place, because all the priests who were present had consecrated themselves, there was nothing to keep for the divisions. 12The Levites, the singers, all of them, belonging to Asaph, to Heman, to Jeduthun, and to their sons and to their brothers, clothed in fine linen, with cymbals and harps and lyres, stood at the east of the altar, and with them one hundred twenty priests blowing trumpets. 13When the blowers and the singers were as one to make one voice heard in praise and thanksgiving to the LORD, and when they raised a voice with trumpets and cymbals and the articles of the song and in praise to the LORD, for he is good, for his kindness is forever, the house was filled with a cloud, the house of the LORD. 14The priests were not able to stand to minister from the face of the cloud, for the glory of the LORD filled the house of God.
Chapter 6
1Then Solomon said, "The LORD has said to dwell in the cloud." 2I have built a house of elevation for you, and a foundation for your dwelling forever. 3The king turned his face and blessed the entire assembly of Israel while all the assembly of Israel stood. 4He said, "Blessed be the LORD, the God of Israel, who spoke with his mouth to David my father and fulfilled with his hands, saying, 5From the day that I brought my people out from the land of Egypt, I have not chosen a city from all the tribes of Israel to build a house for my name to be there, nor have I chosen a man to be leader over my people Israel, 6but I have chosen Jerusalem for my name to be there, and I have chosen David to be over my people Israel." 7It was with the heart of David my father to build a house for the name of the LORD, the God of Israel. 8The LORD said to David my father, "Because it was with your heart to build a house for my name, you have done well that it was with your heart. 9Only you shall not build the house, but your son who comes out from your loins, he shall build the house for my name." 10The LORD has raised up his word that he spoke, and I have arisen in place of David my father and have sat upon the throne of Israel, as the LORD spoke, and I have built the house for the name of the LORD, the God of Israel. 11There I have set the ark in which is the covenant of the LORD that he cut with the sons of Israel.
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