2 Chronicles - Chapter 5
The temple is now completed. Solomon arranges an elaborate opening ceremony. But this is cut short because the glory of God's presence overwhelms the event:
"it came to pass, when the trumpeters and singers were as one, to make one sound to be heard in praising and thanking the Lord, and when they lifted up their voice with the trumpets and cymbals and instruments of music, and praised the Lord, saying:
“For He is good,
For His mercy endures forever,”
that the house, the house of the Lord, was filled with a cloud, 14 so that the priests could not continue ministering because of the cloud; for the glory of the Lord filled the house of God."
The presence of the glory of God is used by John in the introduction to his Gospel, as he starts the story of Jesus:
"And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us, and we beheld His glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father, full of grace and truth."