2 Chronicles 5
1 After Solomon’s workers had finished building the temple, Solomon put in the temple storage rooms everything that his father David had dedicated to Yahweh—all the silver and gold and all the other things that were used at the temple.
Assim se acabou toda a obra, que Salomão fez para a casa do Senhor, então trouxe Salomão as coisas consagradas de seu pai David, e a prata, e o ouro, e todos os vasos, e pô-los entre os tesouros da casa de Deus.
2 Then King Solomon summoned to Jerusalem all the elders of Israel, all the leaders of the tribes and of the families/clans. He wanted them to help to bring to the temple Yahweh’s Sacred Chest from Zion [Hill], where it was in [the part of the city called] ‘The City of David’.
Então Salomão convocou em Jerusalém os anciãos de Israel, e a todos os chefes das tribos, os príncipes dos pais entre os filhos de Israel, para fazerem subir a arca do concerto do Senhor, da cidade de David, que é Sião.
3 So all the leaders of Israel gathered together along with the king, during the Festival of [Living in Temporary] Shelters, in October.
E todos os homens de Israel se congregaram ao rei na festa, que era no sétimo mês.
4 When they had all arrived, the descendants of Levi lifted up the Sacred Chest,
E vieram todos os anciãos de Israel; e os levitas levantaram a arca.
5 and they carried it and the Sacred Tent and the sacred things that were inside it. The priests, who were also descended from Levi, carried them.
E fizeram subir a arca, e a tenda da congregação, com todos os vasos sagrados, que estavam na tenda: os sacerdotes e os levitas os fizeram subir.
6 King Solomon and many of the other people of Israel who had gathered there walked in front of the Sacred Chest. And they sacrificed a huge amount of sheep and cattle. No one was able to count them [because there were very many].
Então o rei Salomão, e toda a congregação de Israel, que se tinha congregado com ele diante da arca, sacrificaram carneiros, e bois, que se não podiam contar, nem numerar, por causa da sua multidão.
7 The priests then brought the Sacred Chest into the Most Holy Place, the inner room of the temple, and they placed it under the wings of the statues of winged creatures.
Assim trouxeram os sacerdotes a arca do concerto do Senhor ao seu lugar, ao oráculo da casa, à santidade das santidades, até debaixo das asas dos cherubins.
8 The wings of those statues spread out over the Sacred Chest and over the poles by which it was carried.
Porque os cherubins estendiam ambas as asas sobre o lugar da arca, e os cherubins por cima cobriam a arca e os seus varais.
9 The poles were very long, with the result that they could be seen by [those who were standing] at the entrance to the Most Holy Place, but they could not be seen by anyone standing outside the temple. Those poles are still there.
Então os varais sobresairam para que as pontas dos varais da arca se vissem perante o oráculo, mas não se vissem de fora: e esteve ali até o dia de hoje.
10 The only things that were inside the Sacred Chest were the two stone tablets that Moses had put there at Sinai Mountain, where Yahweh made an agreement with the Israeli people after they came out of Egypt.
Na arca não havia, senão somente as duas tábuas, que Moisés tinha posto junto a Horeb, quando o Senhor fez concerto com os filhos de Israel, saindo eles do Egito.
11 Then the priests left the Holy Place. All the priests who were there, from every group, had performed the rituals to cause them to be acceptable to God.
E sucedeu que, saindo os sacerdotes do santuário (porque todos os sacerdotes, que se acharam, se santificaram, sem guardarem as suas turmas.
12 All the descendants of Levi who were musicians—Asaph, Heman, Jeduthun, their sons and their other relatives—stood on the east side of the altar. They were wearing linen clothes, and they were playing cymbals, harps, and lyres. There were 120 other priests who were blowing trumpets.
E os levitas, cantores de todos eles, d'Asaph, d'Heman, de Jeduthun, e de seus filhos, e de seus irmãos, vestidos de linho fino, com címbalos, e com alaúdes, e com harpas, estavam em pé para o oriente do altar; e com eles até cento e vinte sacerdotes, que tocavam as trombetas),
13 The men blowing trumpets, those playing the cymbals and other musical instruments, and the singers, made music together, praising Yahweh and singing this song: “Yahweh is good [to us]; he faithfully loves us forever.” Then [suddenly] the temple was filled with a cloud.
Eles uniformemente tocavam as trombetas, e cantavam para fazerem ouvir uma só voz, bendizendo e louvando ao Senhor: e levantando eles a voz com trombetas, e címbalos, e outros instrumentos músicos, e bendizendo ao Senhor, porque era bom, porque a sua benignidade durava para sempre, a casa se encheu de uma nuvem, a saber: a casa do Senhor.
14 The glorious radiance of Yahweh filled the temple, with the result that the priests were not able to continue doing their work.
E não podiam os sacerdotes ter-se em pé, para ministrar, por causa da nuvem: porque a glória do Senhor encheu a casa de Deus.
