Kings III 8:2-9

²in the month of Athanin.

³And the priests took up the ark,

⁴and the tabernacle of testimony, and the holy furniture that was in the tabernacle of testimony.

⁵And the king and all Israel were occupied before the ark, sacrificing sheep and oxen, without number.

⁶And the priests bring in the ark into its place, into the oracle of the house, even into the holy of holies, under the wings of the cherubs.

⁷For the cherubs spread out their wings over the place of the ark, and the cherubs covered the ark and its holy things above.

⁸And the holy staves projected, and the ends of the holy staves appeared out of the holy places in front of the oracle, and were not seen without.

⁹There was nothing in the ark except the two tables of stone, the tables of the covenant which Moses put there in Choreb, which tables the Lord made as a covenant with the children of Israel in their going forth from the land of Egypt.