1 Kings 8:4

The tabernacle. The tabernacle at this time was at Gibeon (1 Chron. 16:39, 40; 2 Chron. 1:3), but the ark was in Jerusalem, in a tent that David had pitched for it in “the city of David” (2 Sam. 6:2, 16, 17; 1 Chron. 15:1; 2 Chron. 1:4). Henceforth there was to be a single national center of worship, so the holy things from both the tabernacle at Gibeon and the tent from the City of David were brought to the Temple on Mt. Moriah, either to be used or deposited within its precincts (see PK 38). Probably each section of the priests and Levites now brought up in solemn procession the sacred things entrusted to it. According to the law of Moses, the Kohathites had charge of the ark, the table of shewbread, the candlestick, the altars, and the vessels of the sanctuary; the Gershonites, of the tabernacle itself and its hangings; and the Merarites, of the boards and pillars of the tabernacle and its court (Num. 3:25-37).