1 Kings 8:8-13

⁸The poles were so long that the ends of the poles could be seen by people who were standing at the entrance to the Most Holy Place, but they could not be seen by people standing outside the temple. Those poles are still there.

⁹The only things that were in the Sacred Chest were the two stone tablets that Moses had put there at Sinai Mountain, where Yahweh made an agreement with the people after they left Egypt.

¹⁰When the priests came out of the temple, suddenly it was filled with a cloud.

¹¹It was rhe glory/radiance of Yahweh that filled the temple, with the result that the priests were not able to continue their work.

¹²Then Solomon prayed this: “Yahweh, you have placed the sun in the sky, but you have decided that you would live in very dark clouds.

¹³I have built for you a magnificent temple, a place for you to live in forever.”