2 Chronicles 5:2–10

²At that time Solomon assembled 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. ³So all the men of Israel came together to the king at the feast in the seventh month.^a

⁴When all the elders of Israel had arrived, the Levites took up the ark, ⁵and they brought up the ark and the Tent of Meeting with all its sacred furnishings. The Levitical priests carried them up.

⁶There, 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.

⁷Then 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,^b beneath the wings of the cherubim. ⁸For the cherubim spread their wings over the place of the ark and overshadowed the ark and its poles.

⁹The poles of the ark extended far enough that their ends were visible from in front of the inner sanctuary,^c but not from outside the Holy Place;^d and they are there to this day.

¹⁰There was nothing in the ark except the two 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 Egypt.