◄ 2 Chronicles 5:8 ►
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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, covering the ark and its poles from above.

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

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

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

the staves

Exodus 25:12-15 And four golden rings, which thou shalt put at the four corners of the ark: let two rings be on the one side, and two on the other. . . .

Exodus 37:3-5 Casting four rings of gold at the four corners thereof: two rings in one side, and two in the other. . . .

Numbers 4:6 And 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.

Context
The Ark Enters the Temple
…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: 8So that the cherubims spread their wings over the place, in which the ark was set, and covered the ark itself and its staves.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.…
Cross References
2 Chronicles 5:7
And 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:

2 Chronicles 5:9
Now 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.

2 Chronicles 5:7
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