Bible Strands
1 Kings 8:4
and they brought up the ark of the LORD and the Tent of Meeting with all its sacred furnishings. So the priests and Levites carried them up.
Berean Standard Bible
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Study note
Setting — The narrator records the moment after the elders of Israel have gathered, as priests and Levites physically transport the ark and the Tent of Meeting into the newly built temple.
The words — The verb וַֽיַּעֲלוּ (va.ya.'a.lu) translates literally as "and they brought up," denoting the physical elevation and relocation of the ark and the Tent of Meeting.
The thread — This movement of the Tent of Meeting echoes its initial consecration command in Exodus 40:2 and its prior location at the high place in 1 Kings 3:4 and 2 Chronicles 1:3.
Why it lands — The text records a logistical transfer of sacred items, requiring the reader to note the shift of cultic focus from the Tent of Meeting at Gibeon to the Jerusalem temple without prescribing a theological response.
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The Hebrew words
King James Version
And they brought up 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 up.
Cross-references
- 1 Kings 3:4 Now the king went to Gibeon to sacrifice there, for it was the great high place. Solomon offered a thousand burnt offerings on the altar there.
- 2 Chronicles 1:3 And Solomon and the whole assembly went to the high place at Gibeon because it was the location of God’s Tent of Meeting, which Moses the servant of the LORD had made in the wilderness.
- Exodus 40:2 “On the first day of the first month you are to set up the tabernacle, the Tent of Meeting.