2 Chronicles · Chapter 5

[ edit] Salomon þanne brouȝte in alle þingis, þat Dauid, his fadir, hadde vowed; ſyluer, and gold, and al þe veſſels, he putte in þe treſores of þe hous of þe Lord. After þe whiche þingis he gadride þe more þoruȝ birþe of Irael, and al þe princis of lynagis, and þe heuedis of meynes, of þe ſonys of Yrael, in to Jeruſalem, þat þei bryngin þe ark of þe peſe couenaunt of þe Lord fro þe cyte of Dauid, þat is Syon. And ſo camen to þe kyng alle þe men of Yrael, in þe ſolempne day of þe ſeuenþ moneþ. And whanne weren commen alle of þe elder of Yrael, þe Leuytes beren þe arke, and brouȝten it in, and al þe aray of þe tabernacle.

Bot þe veſſels of þe ſeyntuarye, þat weren in þe tabernacle, þe preſtis beeren wiþ þe Leuytis. Kyng Salomon forſoþe, and al þe companye of Irael, and alle þat weren gadered beforn þe arke, offreden weþers and oxen wiþ oute eny noumbre; ſo myche forſoþe was þe multitude of ſlayn offryngus. And þe preſtis brouȝten in þe arke of þe peſe couenaunt of þe Lord in to his place, þat is, to Goddis anſwerynge place of þe temple, in to þe holies of halowes, vndre þe weengis of cherubyn; ſo þat cherubyn ſpreden out þeir weengis vpon þe place, in þe whiche þe ark was ſett, and þat arke þei ſchulden coueren wiþ þeir beryng ſtaues.

Of þe berynge ſtaues forſoþe, wiþ þe whiche þe ark was born, for a litil wiȝt lengere þei weren, þe heuedis weren opene beforn Goddis anſwerynge place; ȝif forſoþe eny a litil wiȝt were wiþ out forþ, hem he myȝte not ſeen. And ſo þe arke was þere vnto þe preſent day; and noon oþer þing was in þe ark, bot þe two tablis þat Moyſes hadde putte in Oreb, whanne he ȝaue þe lawe to þe ſonis of Yrael goyng out fro Egipt.

Forſoþe þe preſtis goon out fro þe ſeyntuarye, alle forſoþe preſtis, þat þere myȝt ben founden, ben halowed, ne ȝit in þat tyme þe whijlis, and þe order of ſeruyſes betwene hem ſeluen was deuydid; boþe Leuytis and ſyngers, þat is, and þat vndur Aſaph weren, and þat vndur Eman, and þat vndir Idyþum, ſonis and breþeren of hem, cloþed wiþ ſurples, in cymbalis and ſawtres and harpis ſungyn, ſtondynge at þe eeſt cooſt of þe auter, and wiþ hem preſtis an hundriþ and twenty, ſyngynge wiþ trumpis.

Þanne alle to gyder, in trumpis, and voice, and cymbalis, and orgnys, and of dyuerſe kynde of muſikis, ſownynge to gydre, and þe voice berynge vp an heeiȝ, afer þe ſown was hard, ſo þat whanne þe Lord þei hadden begunnen to preyſen, and ſeyn, Knowlecheþ to þe Lord, for he is good, for in to þe world þe mercy of hym; þe hous of God was fulfillid wiþ a clowde, and þe preſtis myȝten not ſtonden and mynyſtren for þe derkneſſis; forſoþe þe glorie of þe Lord hadde fulfild þe hous of God.