2 Chronicles 5:9-11

International Standard Version

⁹ but the poles were long enough for their ends to extend to the front of the inner sanctuary, even though they could not be seen from outside. They remain there to this day. ¹⁰ There was nothing in the ark except for the two tablets that Moses had placed there while Israel was encamped^[a] at Horeb, where the Lord made a covenant with the Israelis after he had brought them out of the land of Egypt.

¹¹ After this, the priests vacated the Holy Place. (Meanwhile, all the priests who were participating consecrated themselves, irrespective of their Levitical divisions.