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Solomon Moves the Ark into the Temple
8:1 Then Solomon convened in Jerusalem Israel’s elders , all the leaders of the Israelite tribes and families , so they could witness the transferal of the ark of the Lord’s covenant from the city of David (that is, Zion ). 8:2 All the men of Israel assembled before King Solomon during the festival in the month Ethanim (the seventh month ). 8:3 When all Israel’s elders had arrived , the priests lifted the ark . 8:4 The priests and Levites carried the ark of the Lord , the tent of meeting , and all the holy items in the tent . 8:5 Now King Solomon and all the Israelites who had assembled with him went on ahead of the ark and sacrificed more sheep and cattle than could be counted or numbered . 8:6 The priests brought the ark of the Lord’s covenant to its assigned place in the inner sanctuary of the temple , in the most holy place, under the wings of the cherubs . 8:7 The cherubs ’ wings extended over the place where the ark sat ; the cherubs overshadowed the ark and its poles .

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  • The Holy Spirit led the writer of Kings to give an interpretation of history, not just a chronologically sequential record of events. This is true of all the writers of the Old Testament historical books. Some of the events i...
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  • Aharoni, Yohanan. "The Building Activities of David and Solomon."Israel Exploration Journal24:1(1974):13-16.Aharoni, Yohanan, and Michael Avi-Yonahl. The Macmillan Bible Atlas. Revised ed., New York: Macmillan Publishing Co.,...
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  • 2:1 The Lord revealed another message to Haggai almost one month later, on the twenty-first day of the seventh month (Tishri, modern October 17) of the same year, 520 B.C. This was the last day of the feast of Tabernacles (Bo...
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