1 Kings 8:8

And the + 8:8 Heb. staves.holy staves projected, and the ends of the holy staves appeared out of the holy places in front of the oracle, and were not seen without.

Brenton Septuagint

In The King James Version

And they drew out the staves, that the ends of the staves were seen out in the holy place before the oracle, and they were not seen without: and there they are unto this day.

In Context

7For the cherubs + 8:7 pass. part. spread out with their wings.spread out their wings over the place of the ark, and the cherubs covered the ark and its holy things above.

9There was nothing in the ark except the two tables of stone, the tables of the covenant which Moses put there in Choreb, which tables the Lord made as a covenant with the children of Israel in their going forth from the land of Egypt.

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Cross References

Exodus 25:13And thou shalt make staves of incorruptible wood, and shalt gild them with gold.

Exodus 37:4And they put it on four posts of incorruptible wood overlaid with gold; and their chapiters were gold, and their four sockets were silver.

Joshua 4:9And Joshua set also other twelve stones in Jordan itself, in the place that was under the feet of the priests that bore the ark of the covenant of the Lord; and there they are to this day.

Matthew Henry on 1 Kings 8:2-12

The Dedication of the Temple. ( b. c. 1003.) 1 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 king Solomon in Jerusalem, that they might bring up the ark of the covenant of the Lord out of the city of David, which is Zion. 2 And all the men of Israel assembled themselves unto king Solomon at the feast in the month Ethanim, which is the seventh month. 3 And all the elders of Israel came, and the priests took up the ark. 4 And… Read the whole commentary →

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