First Kings 8:8-13

⁸The poles were so long that their ends were seen from the holy place in front of the inner room, but they could not be seen from outside. They are there to this day.

⁹There was nothing in the ark except the two tablets of stone that Moses had put there at Horeb, when Yahweh made a covenant with the people of Israel when they came out of the land of Egypt.

¹⁰It came about that when the priests came out of the holy place, the cloud filled the temple of Yahweh.

¹¹The priests could not stand to serve because of the cloud, for the glory of Yahweh filled his house.

¹²Then Solomon said, “Yahweh has said that he would live in thick darkness,

¹³But I have built you a lofty residence, a place for you to live in forever.”