1 Kings 8:3–11

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,^c beneath the wings of the cherubim. 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;^d and they are there to this day.

⁹There was nothing in the ark except the two stone tablets that Moses had placed in it at Horeb,^e where the LORD had made a covenant with the Israelites after they had come out of the land of Egypt.

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.