2 Chronicles 5:8 “For the cherubim spread their wings over the place of the ark and over…”

2 Chronicles 5:8

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 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 out their wings 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

and 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

and the cherubs are spreading out wings over 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

7Then 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.

9The poles of the ark extended far enough that their ends were visible from in front of the inner sanctuary, but not from outside the Holy Place; and they are there to this day.

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