1 Kings 8:2-9

²And all the men of Israel assembled themselves to king Solomon at the feast in the month Ethanim, which is the seventh month.

³And all the elders of Israel came, and the priests took up the ark.

⁴And they brought the ark of the LORD, and the tabernacle of the congregation, and all the holy vessels that were in the tabernacle, even those did the priests and the Levites bring.

⁵And king Solomon, and all the congregation of Israel, that were assembled to him, were with him before the ark, sacrificing sheep and oxen, that could not be told nor numbered for multitude.

⁶And the priests brought the ark of the covenant of the LORD to its place, into the oracle of the house, to the most holy place , even under the wings of the cherubim.

⁷For the cherubim spread forth their two wings over the place of the ark, and the cherubim covered the ark and the staffs thereof above.

⁸And they drew out the staffs, that the ends of the staffs were seen out in the holy place before the oracle, and they were not seen without: and there they are to this day.

⁹There was nothing in the ark save the two tables of stone, which Moses deposited there at Horeb, when the LORD made a covenant with the children of Israel, when they came out of the land of Egypt.