A reading from the book of Second Chronicles.

Thus all the work that Solomon did for the house of the Lord was finished.

And Solomon brought in the things that David, his father, had dedicated,

and stored the silver, the gold, and all the vessels in the treasuries of the house of God.

Then Solomon assembled the elders of Israel and all the heads in the treasuries of the house of God. Then Solomon assembled the elders of Israel

and all the heads of the tribes, the leaders of the father's houses of the people of Israel in Jerusalem,

to bring up the ark of the covenant of the Lord out of the city of David, which is Zion. And all the men of

Israel assembled before the king at the feast that is in the seventh Zion. And all the men of Israel assembled before the king at the feast

that is in the seventh month. And all the elders of Israel came and the Levites took up the

ark, and they brought up the ark, the tent of meeting, and all the holy vessels that were in the

tent. The Levitical priests brought them up. And King Solomon and all the

congregation of Israel, who had assembled before him, were before the ark sacrificing so many

sheep and oxen that they could not be counted or numbered. Then the priests brought the

ark of the covenant of the Lord to its place, in the inner

sanctuary of the house, in the most holy place, underneath the wings of the cherubim.

The cherubim spread out their wings over the place of the ark, so that the cherubim made

a covering above the ark and its poles.

And the poles were so long that the ends of the poles were seen from the holy place before the inner sanctuary,

but they could not be seen from outside, and they are there to this day.

There was nothing in the ark except the two tablets that Moses put there at Horib,

where the Lord made a covenant with the people of Israel when they came out of Egypt.

And when the priests came out of the holy place,

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