II Chronicles 5

vattishlam kol-hammelakhah asher-asah shelomoh levet Adonai vayyave shelomoh et-qodshe david aviv ve'et-hakkesef ve'et-hazzahav ve'et-kol-hakkelim natan be'otserot bet ha'elohim

When all the work that King Solomon undertook for the House of GOD was completed, Solomon brought the things that his father David had consecrated—the silver, the gold, and the utensils—and deposited them in the treasury of the House of God.

az yaqhel shelomoh et-ziqne yisra'el ve'et-kol-rashe hammattot nesi'e ha'avot livne yisra'el el-yerushalai͏m leha'alot et-aron berit-Adonai me'ir david hi tsiyyon

Then Solomon convoked the elders of Israel—all the heads of the tribes and the ancestral chiefs of the Israelites—in Jerusalem, to bring up the Ark of the Covenant of GOD from the City of David, that is, Zion.

vayyiqqahalu el-hammelekh kol-ish yisra'el bekhag hu hakhodesh hashevi'i

The entire body of Israel assembled before the king at the Feast [of Booths], in the seventh month.

vayyavo'u kol ziqne yisra'el vayyisu haleviyyim et-ha'aron

When all the elders of Israel had come, the Levites carried the Ark.

vayya'alu et-ha'aron ve'et-ohel mo'ed ve'et-kol-kele haqqodesh asher ba'ohel he'elu otam hakkohanim haleviyyim

They brought up the Ark and the Tent of Meeting and all the holy vessels that were in the Tent—the Levite priests brought them up.

vehammelekh shelomoh vekhol-adat yisra'el hanno'adim alayw lifne ha'aron mezabbekhim tson uvaqar asher lo-yissaferu velo yimmanu merov

Meanwhile, King Solomon and the whole community of Israel, who had gathered to him before the Ark, were sacrificing sheep and oxen in such abundance that they could not be numbered or counted.

vayyavi'u hakkohanim et-aron berit-Adonai el-meqomo el-devir habbayit el-qodesh haqqodashim el-takhat kanfe hakkeruvim

The priests brought the Ark of GOD’s Covenant to its place in the inner Sanctuary of the House, in the Holy of Holies, beneath the wings of the cherubim;

vayyihyu hakkeruvim poresim kenafayim al-meqom ha'aron vayekhassu hakkeruvim al-ha'aron ve'al-baddayw milma'elah

for the cherubim had their wings spread out over the place of the Ark so that the cherubim covered the Ark and its poles from above.

vayya'arikhu habbaddim vayyera'u rashe habbaddim min-ha'aron al-pene haddevir velo yera'u hakhutsah vayehi-sham ad hayyom hazzeh

The poles projected beyond the Ark and the ends of the poles were visible from the front of the inner Sanctuary, but they could not be seen from the outside; and there they remain to this day.

en ba'aron raq shene hallukhot asher-natan mosheh bekhorev asher karat Adonai im-bene yisra'el betsetam mimmitsrayim

There was nothing inside the Ark but the two tablets that Moses placed [there] at Horeb, when GOD made [a Covenant] with the Israelites after their departure from Egypt.

vayehi betset hakkohanim min-haqqodesh ki kol-hakkohanim hannimtse'im hitqaddashu en lishmor lemakhleqot

When the priests came out of the Sanctuary—all the priests present had sanctified themselves, without keeping to the set divisions—

vehaleviyyim hameshorerim lekhullam le'asaf leheman lidutun velivnehem vela'akhehem melubbashim buts bimtsiltayim uvinvalim vekhinnorot omedim mizrakh lammizbeakh ve'immahem kohanim leme'ah ve'esrim (mkhtsrrym) [makhtserim] bakhatsotserot

all the Levite singers, Asaph, Heman, Jeduthun, their sons and their brothers, dressed in fine linen, holding cymbals, harps, and lyres, were standing to the east of the altar, and with them were 120 priests who blew trumpets.

vayehi khe'ekhad (lmkhtstsrym) [lamkhatserim] velamshorerim lehashmia qol-ekhad lehallel ulehodot la-Adonai ukheharim qol bakhatsotserot uvimtsiltayim uvikhle hashir uvehallel la-Adonai ki tov ki le'olam khasdo vehabbayit male anan bet Adonai

The trumpeters and the singers joined in unison to praise and extol GOD; and as the sound of the trumpets, cymbals, and other musical instruments, and the praise of GOD, “who is good—and whose steadfast love is eternal,” grew louder, the House, the House of GOD, was filled with a cloud.

velo-yakhelu hakkohanim la'amod lesharet mippene he'anan ki-male khevod-Adonai et-bet ha'elohim

The priests could not stay and perform the service because of the cloud, for the glory of the ETERNAL filled the House of God.