1 Kings 8:4

And they brought up the ark of the Lord [which had now been for nearly 40 years "in the tabernacle that David had pitched for it" on the Mount Zion ( 2 Samuel 6:17 ) ], and the tabernacle of the congregation [Heb, "the tabernacle of meeting ". This had been for many years at Gibeon. (Cf. 1 Kings 3:4 ; 2 Chronicles 1:8 ; 1 Chronicles 16:1-43 :89. See note on 1 Chronicles 3:4 .) The tabernacle of Mount Zion is never called "the tabernacle of the congregation"—indeed, it is expressly dis-tingnished from it, 2 Chronicles 1:3 , 2 Chronicles 1:4 . The ark and the tabernacle were now reunited in the temple of Solomon, thus "marking the identity and continuity of the life and ritual of the Hebrew Church" (Wordsworth) ], and all the holy vessels that were in the tabernacle [Perhaps the brazen altar. Certainly the altar of incense, the table of shewbread, the candlestick, and also the brazen serpent (Stanley) ], even those did the priests and Levites bring up. [ We are hardly justified in saying (as Keil, al .) that the Levites carried all but the ark. The text rather favours the view that the priests assisted in bringing up the tabernacle and its furniture. So 2 Chronicles 5:5 . Neither the tabernacle nor its vessels were designed for further use in the temple; the latter had been replaced by vessels better suited to the enlarged sanctuary—they were simply preserved, so far as we know, as relics of the past. in the treasury or side chambers.