1 Kings 8:7 “For the cherubim spread their wings over the place of the ark and over…”

1 Kings 8:7

For the cherubim spread their wings over the place of the ark and overshadowed the ark and its poles.

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

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

World English Bible

For the cherubim spread their wings out over the place of the ark, and the cherubim covered the ark and its poles above.

American Standard Version

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

Geneva Bible 1599

For ye Cherubims stretched out their wings ouer the place of the Arke, and the Cherubims couered the Arke, and the barres thereof aboue.

Darby Translation

for the cherubim stretched forth [their] wings over the place of the ark, and the cherubim covered the ark and its staves above.

Young's Literal Translation

for the cherubs are spreading forth two wings unto the place of the ark, and the cherubs cover over the ark, and over its staves from above;

Bible in Basic English

For their wings were outstretched over the place where the ark was, covering the ark and its rods.

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In context

6Then the priests brought the ark of the covenant of the LORD to its place in the inner sanctuary of the temple, the Most Holy Place, beneath the wings of the cherubim.

8The poles extended far enough that their ends were visible from the Holy Place in front of the inner sanctuary, but not from outside the Holy Place; and they are there to this day.

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