Exodus 37:5
These rods he put in the rings at the sides of the ark, for lifting it.
Bible in Basic English
In The King James Version
And he put the staves into the rings by the sides of the ark, to bear the ark.
In Context
4And rods of the same wood plated with gold.
6And he made the cover all of gold, two and a half cubits long and a cubit and a half wide.
Cross References
Numbers 4:15And after the holy place and all its vessels have been covered up by Aaron and his sons, when the tents of the people go forward, the sons of Kohath are to come and take it up; but the holy things may not be touched by them for fear of death.
Matthew Henry on Exodus 37:2-10
The Tabernacle and Its Furniture. ( b. c. 1491.) 1 And Bezaleel made the ark of shittim wood: two cubits and a half was the length of it, and a cubit and a half the breadth of it, and a cubit and a half the height of it: 2 And he overlaid it with pure gold within and without, and made a crown of gold to it round about. 3 And he cast for it four rings of gold, to be set by the four corners of it; even two rings upon the one side of it, and two rings upon the other side of it. 4 And he made staves of shittim wood,… Read the whole commentary →