51 So all the work that King Solomon had done for the house of the Lord was finished; and Solomon brought in the things (A)which his father David had dedicated: the silver and the gold and the furnishings. He put them in the treasuries of the house of the Lord.

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51 When all the work King Solomon had done for the temple of the Lord was finished, he brought in the things his father David had dedicated(A)—the silver and gold and the furnishings(B)—and he placed them in the treasuries of the Lord’s temple.

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The Ark Brought into the Temple(A)

Now (B)Solomon assembled the elders of Israel and all the heads of the tribes, the chief fathers of the children of Israel, to King Solomon in Jerusalem, (C)that they might bring (D)up the ark of the covenant of the Lord from the City of David, which is Zion.

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The Ark Brought to the Temple(A)

Then King Solomon summoned into his presence at Jerusalem the elders of Israel, all the heads of the tribes and the chiefs(B) of the Israelite families, to bring up the ark(C) of the Lord’s covenant from Zion, the City of David.(D)

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So all the elders of Israel came, (A)and the priests took up the ark.

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When all the elders of Israel had arrived, the priests(A) took up the ark,

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Then they brought up the ark of the Lord, (A)the [a]tabernacle of meeting, and all the holy furnishings that were in the tabernacle. The priests and the Levites brought them up.

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  1. 1 Kings 8:4 tent

and they brought up the ark of the Lord and the tent of meeting(A) and all the sacred furnishings in it. The priests and Levites(B) carried them up,

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Then the priests (A)brought in the ark of the covenant of the Lord to (B)its place, into the inner sanctuary of the temple, to the Most Holy Place, (C)under the wings of the cherubim.

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The priests then brought the ark of the Lord’s covenant(A) to its place in the inner sanctuary of the temple, the Most Holy Place,(B) and put it beneath the wings of the cherubim.(C)

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For the cherubim spread their two wings over the place of the ark, and the cherubim overshadowed the ark and its poles.

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The cherubim spread their wings over the place of the ark and overshadowed(A) the ark and its carrying poles.

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(A)Nothing was in the ark (B)except the two tablets of stone which Moses (C)put there at Horeb, (D)when the Lord made a covenant with the children of Israel, when they came out of the land of Egypt.

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There was nothing in the ark except the two stone tablets(A) that Moses had placed in it at Horeb, where the Lord made a covenant with the Israelites after they came out of Egypt.

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10 And it came to pass, when the priests came out of the holy place, that the cloud (A)filled the house of the Lord,

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10 When the priests withdrew from the Holy Place, the cloud(A) filled the temple of the Lord.

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11 so that the priests could not continue ministering because of the cloud; for the (A)glory of the Lord filled the house of the Lord.

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11 And the priests could not perform their service(A) because of the cloud, for the glory(B) of the Lord filled his temple.

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