on the right
side and five on the left side, and many other things, and took all the
vessels of gold and silver that his father David had sanctified and
hallowed, and brought them into the treasury of the house of our Lord.
After this he assembled all the noblest and greatest of birth of them of
Israel, with the princes of the tribes and dukes of the families, for to
bring the Ark of God from the city of David, Sion, into the temple. And
the priests and Levites took the Ark and bare it and all the vessels of
the sanctuary that were in the tabernacle. King Solomon, with all the
multitude of the children that were there, went tofore the Ark and
offered sheep and oxen without estimation and number.

And the priests set the Ark in the house of our Lord in the oracle of
the temple, in sancta sanctorum, under the wings of cherubim. In the ark
was nothing but the two tables of Moses of stone which Moses had put in.
And then Solomon blessed our Lord tofore all the people, and thanked him
that he had suffered him to make an house unto his name, and besought
our Lord that he whosomever prayed our Lord for any petition in that
temple, that he of his mercy would hear him and be merciful to him. And
our Lord appeared to him when the edifice was accomplished perfectly,
and said to Solomon: I have heard thy prayer and thine oration that thou
hast prayed tofore me. I have sanctified and hallowed this house that
thou hast edified for to put my name therein for evermore, and my eyes
and heart shall be thereon always. And if thou walk before me like as
thy father walked in the simplicity of heart and in equity, and wilt do
all that I have commanded thee, and keep my judgments and laws, I shall
set the throne of thy reign upon Israel evermore, like as I have said to
thy father David, saying: There shall not be taken away a man of thy
generation from the reign and seat of Israel. If ye avert and turn from
me, ye and your sons, not following ne keeping my commandments and
ceremonies that I have showed tofore you, but go and worship strange
gods, and honor them, I shall cast away Israel from the face of the
earth that I have given to them, and the temple that I have hallowed to
my name, I shall cast it away from my sight. And it shall be a fable and
proverb, and thy house an example shall be to all people; every man that
shall go thereby shall be abashed and astonied, and shall say: Why hath
God done thus to this land and to thy house? And the