The Holy Bible (Volume 2); Old Covenant. Containing the Old and New Covenant, Commonly Called the Old and New Testament (Paperback)

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: gard to the inner doors of the house into the Holy of Holies? these doors of the house of the temple he covered with gold. V. And when all the work was finished which Solomon made for the house of the Lord, he brought in the dedications of his father David, the silver and the gold and the vessels, anddepo- 2 sited them in the treasury of the house of the Lord. Then Solomon assembled at Jerusalem all the elders of Israel and all the chiefs of the tribes, the leaders of the families of the sons of Israel to bring up the ark of the covenant of the Lord out 3 of the city of David, which is Sion. And when all Israel were assembled before the king at the festival which is in the seventh 4 month, all the elders of Israel went, and all the Levites took 5 up the ark and the tabernacle of the testimony and all the holy utensils which were in the tabernacle, and the priests and the 6 Levites carried it up. And while king Solomon and all the congregation of Israel, both the devout, and they who were assembled with them before the ark, were sacrificing beeves and sheep which could not be numbered nor reckoned by reason of 7 their multitude, the priests carried the ark of the covenant of the Lord into its place?into the dabir of the house?into the 8 Holy of Holies under the wings of the cherubims; for the che- rubims had their wings expanded over the place of the ark, and 9 made a covering above, over the ark and over its staves. Now the staves projected, and their heads were seen from the Holies towards the front of the dabir, but were not seen from without, 10 and there they have continued to this day. Now there was nothing in the ark, but the two tables which Moses put therein at Choreb, containing the covenant which the Lord made with the Israelites, when they cam...