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5And Hiram king of Tyre sent his servants unto Solomon; for he had heard that they had anointed him king in the room of his father: for Hiram was ever a lover of David.
²And Solomon sent to Hiram, saying,
³Thou knowest how that David my father could not build an house unto the name of the Lord his God for the wars which were about him on every side, until the Lord put them under the soles of his feet.
⁴But now the Lord my God hath given me rest on every side, so that there is neither adversary nor evil occurrent.
⁵And, behold, I purpose to build an house unto the name of the Lord my God, as the Lord spake unto David my father, saying, Thy son, whom I will set upon thy throne in thy room, he shall build an house unto my name.

8Then Solomon assembled the elders of Israel, and all the heads of the tribes, the chief of the fathers of the children of Israel, unto king Solomon in Jerusalem, that they might bring up the ark of the covenant of the Lord out of the city of David, which is Zion.
²And all the men of Israel assembled themselves unto king Solomon at the feast in the month Ethanim, which is the seventh month.
³And all the elders of Israel came, and the priests took up the ark.
⁴And they brought up the ark of the Lord, and the tabernacle of the congregation, and all the holy vessels that were in the tabernacle, even those did the priests and the Levites bring up.
⁵And king Solomon, and all the congregation of Israel, that were assembled unto him, were with him before the ark, sacrificing sheep and oxen, that could not be told nor numbered for multitude.
⁶And the priests brought in the ark of the covenant of the Lord unto his place, into the oracle of the house, to the most holy place, even under the wings of the cherubims.
⁷For the cherubims spread forth their two wings over the place of the ark, and the cherubims covered the ark and the staves thereof above.
⁸And they drew out the staves, that the ends of the staves were seen out in the holy place before the oracle, and they were not seen without: and there they are unto this day.
⁹There was nothing in the ark save the two tables of stone, which Moses put there at Horeb, when the Lord made a covenant with the children of Israel, when they came out of the land of Egypt.
¹⁰And it came to pass, when the priests were come out of the holy place, that the cloud filled the house of the Lord,
¹¹So that the priests could not stand to minister because of the cloud: for the glory of the Lord had filled the house of the Lord.
¹²Then spake Solomon, The Lord said that he would dwell in the thick darkness.
¹³I have surely built thee an house to dwell in, a settled place for thee to abide in for ever.