◄ 1 Kings 8:7 ►
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Good News Translation
Their outstretched wings covered the box and the poles it was carried by.

New Revised Standard Version
For the cherubim spread out their wings over the place of the ark, so that the cherubim made a covering above the ark and its poles.

Contemporary English Version
whose wings covered both the chest and the poles used for carrying it.

New American Bible
The cherubim had their wings spread out over the place of the ark, sheltering the ark and its poles from above.

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

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

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

Context
The Ark Enters the Temple
…6And the priests brought in the ark of the covenant of the Lord into its place, into the oracle of the temple, into the holy of holies, under the wings of the cherubims. 7For the cherubims spread forth their wings over the place of the ark, and covered the ark, and the staves thereof above.8And whereas the staves stood out, the ends of them were seen without, in the sanctuary before the oracle, but were not seen farther out, and there they have been unto this day.…
Cross References
Hebrews 9:5
And over it were the cherubims of glory overshadowing the propitiatory: of which it is not needful to speak now particularly.

Exodus 25:20
Let them cover both sides of the propitiatory, spreading their wings, and covering the oracle, and let them look one towards the other, their faces being turned towards the propitiatory wherewith the ark is to be covered.

1 Kings 6:27
And he set the cherubims in the midst of the inner temple: and the cherubims stretched forth their wings, and the wing of the one touched one wall, and the wing of the other cherub touched the other wall: and the other wings in the midst of the temple touched one another.

1 Kings 8:6
And the priests brought in the ark of the covenant of the Lord into its place, into the oracle of the temple, into the holy of holies, under the wings of the cherubims.

1 Kings 8:8
And whereas the staves stood out, the ends of them were seen without, in the sanctuary before the oracle, but were not seen farther out, and there they have been unto this day.

1 Kings 8:6
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