< 2 Chronicles 5 >
1 Thus all the work that Solomon wrought for the house of the LORD was finished. And Solomon brought in the things that David his father had hallowed; even the silver, and the gold, and all the vessels, and put them in the treasuries of the house of God.
所羅門做完了耶和華殿的一切工,就把他父大衛分別為聖的金銀和器皿都帶來,放在上帝殿的府庫裏。
2 Then Solomon assembled the elders of Israel, and all the heads of the tribes, the princes of the fathers' houses of the children of Israel, unto Jerusalem, to bring up the ark of the covenant of the LORD out of the city of David, which is Zion.
那時,所羅門將以色列的長老、各支派的首領,並以色列的族長招聚到耶路撒冷,要把耶和華的約櫃從大衛城-就是錫安-運上來。
3 And all the men of Israel assembled themselves unto the king at the feast, which was in the seventh month.
於是以色列眾人在七月節前都聚集到王那裏。
4 And all the elders of Israel came, and the Levites took up the ark.
以色列眾長老來到,利未人便抬起約櫃。
5 And they brought up the ark, and the tent of meeting, and all the holy vessels that were in the Tent; these did the priests and the Levites bring up.
祭司利未人將約櫃運上來,又將會幕和會幕的一切聖器具都帶上來。
6 And king Solomon and all the congregation of Israel, that were assembled unto him, were before the ark, sacrificing sheep and oxen, that could not be counted nor numbered for multitude.
所羅門王和聚集到他那裏的以色列全會眾都在約櫃前獻牛羊為祭,多得不可勝數。
7 And the priests brought in the ark of the covenant of the LORD unto its place, into the Sanctuary of the house, to the most holy place, even under the wings of the cherubim.
祭司將耶和華的約櫃抬進內殿,就是至聖所,放在兩個基路伯的翅膀底下。
8 For the cherubim spread forth their wings over the place of the ark, and the cherubim covered the ark and the staves thereof above.
基路伯張着翅膀在約櫃之上,遮掩約櫃和抬櫃的槓。
9 And the staves were so long that the ends of the staves were seen from the ark before the Sanctuary; but they could not be seen without; and there they are unto this day.
這槓甚長,槓頭在內殿前可以看見,在殿外卻不能看見,直到如今還在那裏。
10 There was nothing in the ark save the two tables which Moses put there at Horeb, when the LORD made a covenant with the children of Israel, when they came out of Egypt.
約櫃裏惟有兩塊石版,就是以色列人出埃及後,耶和華與他們立約的時候,摩西在何烈山所放的。除此以外,並無別物。
11 And it came to pass, when the priests were come out of the holy place — for all the priests that were present had sanctified themselves, and did not keep their courses;
當時,在那裏所有的祭司都已自潔,並不分班供職。
12 also the Levites who were the singers, all of them, even Asaph, Heman, Jeduthun, and their sons and their brethren, arrayed in fine linen, with cymbals and psalteries and harps, stood at the east end of the altar, and with them a hundred and twenty priests sounding with trumpets —
他們出聖所的時候,歌唱的利未人亞薩、希幔、耶杜頓,和他們的眾子眾弟兄都穿細麻布衣服,站在壇的東邊,敲鈸、鼓瑟、彈琴,同着他們有一百二十個祭司吹號。
13 it came even to pass, when the trumpeters and singers were as one, to make one sound to be heard in praising and thanking the LORD; and when they lifted up their voice with the trumpets and cymbals and instruments of music, and praised the LORD: 'for He is good, for His mercy endureth for ever'; that then the house was filled with a cloud, even the house of the LORD,
吹號的、歌唱的都一齊發聲,聲合為一,讚美感謝耶和華。吹號、敲鈸,用各種樂器,揚聲讚美耶和華說: 耶和華本為善, 他的慈愛永遠長存! 那時,耶和華的殿有雲充滿,
14 so that the priests could not stand to minister by reason of the cloud; for the glory of the LORD filled the house of God.
甚至祭司不能站立供職,因為耶和華的榮光充滿了上帝的殿。