2 Chronicles 5:1
Thus all the work that Solomon made for the house of the LORD was finished: and Solomon brought in all the things that David his father had dedicated; and the silver, and the gold, and all the instruments, put he among the treasures of the house of God.
Thus all the work that Solomon made for the house of the LORD was finished, both the building itself and its furniture, by his bringing in the silver and the gold and all the instruments that David his father had dedicated and putting them among the treasures of the house of God. Before this finishing, David had purposed to build a house for God but was refused, and instead gathered material for the building, so that David provided the materials but Solomon built it. Solomon himself was called to the kingdom amid perplexities in establishing his reign. In its literary setting the verse belongs to the history of the undivided kingdom under Solomon in 2 Chronicles 1-9, corresponding to 1 Kings 1-11 and coming in chronological order. Within those first nine chapters six chapters are given to the building of the temple and its services and only three to other matters of his reign.
This large place given to the temple shows the religious purpose of the book, that God's care for His people and His purpose to save them is the theme from beginning to end, with divine favor dependent on the faithfulness of rulers and people to the covenant and divine punishment the result of unfaithfulness. The completed building was a larger and grander yet immovable structure constructed on the same plan as the tabernacle, consisting of two holy places with sacred vessels of the same kind and occupied with the very same ministration. As a pattern of the heavenly temple it proves the heavenly sanctuary has two holy places. The verse brings the finished temple to its solemn dedication, belonging to the transfer of the ark and the former tabernacle into the completed sanctuary. The ark was placed in the Most Holy Place amid great rejoicing.
That placing was followed by the dedication prayer and sacrifices and the divine answer to Solomon's prayer. After the dedication the account leads on to plans for the service of the house of God, Solomon's enterprise in commerce, and the story of his wisdom and riches. The verse is included in the assigned study of the temple dedication, which is dated to the Feast of Tabernacles in the eleventh year of Solomon's reign, about 1020 B.C., taking place a month before the temple's full completion.