1 Kings 8:7

8:7 The cherubs’ wings extended over the place where the ark sat; the cherubs overshadowed the ark and its poles. ¹ 

1 Kings 8:3

8:3 When all Israel’s elders had arrived, the priests lifted the ark.

1 Kings 6:19

6:19 He prepared the inner sanctuary inside the temple so that the ark of the covenant of the Lord could be placed there.

1 Kings 8:4

8:4 The priests and Levites carried the ark of the Lord, the tent of meeting, ²  and all the holy items in the tent. ³ 

1 Kings 8:6

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.

1 Kings 8:21

8:21 and set up in it a place for the ark containing the covenant the Lord made with our ancestors ⁵  when he brought them out of the land of Egypt.”

1 Kings 3:15

3:15 Solomon then woke up and realized it was a dream. ⁶  He went to Jerusalem, stood before the ark of the Lord’s covenant, offered up burnt sacrifices, presented peace offerings, ⁷  and held a feast for all his servants.

1 Kings 8:1

Solomon Moves the Ark into the Temple

8:1 ⁸ Then Solomon convened in Jerusalem ⁹  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). ¹⁰ 

1 Kings 8:5

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. ¹¹ 

1 Kings 8:9

8:9 There was nothing in the ark except the two stone tablets Moses had placed there in Horeb. ¹²  It was there that ¹³  the Lord made an agreement with the Israelites after he brought them out of the land of Egypt.

1 Kings 2:26

2:26 The king then told Abiathar the priest, “Go back to your property ¹⁴  in Anathoth. You deserve to die, ¹⁵  but today I will not kill you because you did carry the ark of the sovereign Lord before my father David and you suffered with my father through all his difficult times.” ¹⁶ 

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

[8:4]  ² tn Heb “the tent of assembly.”

[8:4]  ³ tn Heb “and they carried the ark of the Lord…. The priests and the Levites carried them.”

[8:6]  ³ tn The word “assigned” is supplied in the translation for clarification.

[8:21]  ⁴ tn Heb “fathers” (also in vv. 34, 40, 48, 53, 57, 58).

[3:15]  ⁵ tn Heb “and look, a dream.”

[3:15]  ⁶ tn Or “tokens of peace”; NIV, TEV “fellowship offerings.”

[8:1]  ⁶ tc The Old Greek translation includes the following words at the beginning of ch. 8: “It so happened that when Solomon finished building the Lord’s temple and his own house, after twenty years.”

[8:1]  ⁷ map For location see Map5 B1; Map6 F3; Map7 E2; Map8 F2; Map10 B3; JP1 F4; JP2 F4; JP3 F4; JP4 F4.

[8:1]  ⁸ tn Heb “Then Solomon convened the elders of Israel, the heads of the tribes, the chiefs of the fathers belonging to the sons of Israel to King Solomon [in] Jerusalem to bring up the ark of the covenant of the Lord from the city of David (it is Zion).”

[8:5]  ⁷ 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.”

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

[8:9]  ⁹ tn Heb “in Horeb where.”

[2:26]  ⁹ tn Or “field.”

[2:26]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “you are a man of death.”

[2:26]  ¹¹ tn Heb “and because you suffered through all which my father suffered.”