¶ The Arke is brhought into the temple, which is fylled with the glorye of the Lorde.
CAPI. V.
ANd so al the worke that Salomō made [unspec A] in the house of the Lorde was finyshed: & * 1.1 Salomon brought in al the thyng{is} that Dauid his father had dedycated, with the syluer and golde / and all the Iuels, and put them amonge the treasures of the house of God. Then Salomon * 1.2 gathered the el∣ders of Israell togyther / and all the heades of the trybes, & auncyent fathers of the chyl∣dren of Israell, vnto Ierusalem: to brynge the arke of the couenaunt of the lorde out of the citye of Dauid which is Zion: Wherfore all the men of Israell resorted vnto the kyng in the feast, euen in the seuenth moneth. And all the elders of Israell came, and the Leuy∣tes toke vp the arke.
And the preestes and the Leuites brought [unspec B] awaye the Arke, and the tabernacle of wyt∣nesse, (and al the holy vessels that were in the tabernacle,) and they bare them. And kynge Salomon and all the congregacyon of Is∣raell / that were assembled vnto hym before the Arke, offered shepe, and oxen, so many / that they coulde not be tolde, nor nombred for multytude. And the Preestes brought the Arke of the appoyntment of the Lorde vnto his place, euen in to the queere of the temple within the place moost holy, and set it vnder the wyng{is} of the Cherubs, that the Cherubs stretched out theyr wynges ouer the place of the Arke, and the Cherubs couered both the Arke and her barres aboue on hygh.
And the barres of the Arke, were so longe [unspec C] that the heades of the barres were sene with¦out the Arke within the queere, but not with¦out. And there the Arke remayned vnto this daye. But there was nothynge in the Arke / * 1.3 saue the two tables which Moses put thee in at Horeb, when the lorde made a couenaūt with the chyldren of Israell, after they were come out of Egypte. And it fortuned, that when the Preestes were come out of the holy place (for all the Preestes that were present, were sanctyfyed and dyd not then wayte by course) that bothe the Leuites and the syn∣gers (vnder Asaph, Heman and Ieduthun) were appoynted to sondrye offices with theyr Chyldren and brethren, and were arayde in fyne whyte, hauynge Symbals, Psalteries and harpes, and stode at the East ende of the aulter: and by them an hundred and twentye Preestes blowynge with trompettes. [unspec D]
And the trompet blowers and the syngers so agreed, that it semed but one voyce in pray synge and thankynge the Lorde. And when they lyfte vp theyr voyce with the Trom∣pettes, Symbals and other instrumentes of Musycke, and when they praysed the Lorde, ❀ (and sayde) howe that he is good, and that his mercy lasteth euer, the house of god was fylled with a cloude: so that the preest{is} coulde not endure to mynyster, by the reason of the cloude. For the maiestye of the Lorde had fyl¦led the house of God.