1 Kings 8:3-9

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, ¹  and all the holy items in the tent. ²  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. ³ 

8:6 The priests brought the ark of the Lord’s covenant to its assigned ⁴  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. ⁵  8:8 The poles were so long their ends were visible from the holy place in front of the inner sanctuary, but they could not be seen from beyond that point. ⁶  They have remained there to this very day. 8:9 There was nothing in the ark except the two stone tablets Moses had placed there in Horeb. ⁷  It was there that ⁸  the Lord made an agreement with the Israelites after he brought them out of the land of Egypt.

[8:4]  ¹ tn Heb “the tent of assembly.”

[8:4]  ² tn Heb “and they carried the ark of the Lord…. The priests and the Levites carried them.”

[8:5]  ¹ tn Heb “And King Solomon and all the assembly of Israel, those who had been gathered to him, [were] before the ark, sacrificing sheep and cattle which could not be counted or numbered because of the abundance.”

[8:6]  ¹ tn The word “assigned” is supplied in the translation for clarification.

[8:7]  ¹ sn And its poles. These poles were used to carry the ark. See Exod 25:13-15.

[8:8]  ¹ tn Heb “they could not be seen outside.”

[8:9]  ¹ sn Horeb is another name for Mount Sinai.

[8:9]  ² tn Heb “in Horeb where.”