2 Chronicles 5:8

So that the cherubims spread their wings over the place, in which the ark was set, and covered the ark itself and its staves.

Douay-Rheims 1899

In The King James Version

For the cherubims spread forth their wings over the place of the ark, and the cherubims covered the ark and the staves thereof above.

In Context

7And the priests brought in the ark of the covenant of the Lord into its place, that is, to the oracle of the temple, into the holy of holies under the wings of the cherubims:

9Now the ends of the staves wherewith the ark was carried, because they were some thing longer, were seen before the oracle: but if a man were a little outward, he could not see them. So the ark has been there unto this day.

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Cross References

Exodus 25:12And four golden rings, which thou shall put at the four corners of the ark: let two rings be on the one side, and two on the other.

Numbers 4:6And shall cover it again with a cover of violet skins, and shall spread over it a cloth all of violet, and shall put in the bars.

Matthew Henry on 2 Chronicles 5:2-11

The Ark Placed in the Temple. ( b. c. 1004.) 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. 2 Then Solomon assembled the elders of Israel, and all the heads of the tribes, the chief of the fathers of the children of Israel, unto Jerusalem, to bring up the ark of the covenant of the Lord out of the city of… Read the whole commentary →

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