The wings of these cherubim spread themselves out twenty cubits. They stood on their feet, and their faces were toward the house.
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The wings of these cherubim spread themselves out twenty cubits. They stood on their feet, and their faces were toward the house.
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The wings of these cherubims spread themselves forth twenty cubits: and they stood on their feet, and their faces were inward.
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The wings of these cherubim spread themselves forth twenty cubits; and they stood on their feet, and their faces were inward.
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- Exodus 25:20 The cherubim shall spread out their wings upward, covering the mercy seat with their wings, with their faces toward one another. The faces of the cherubim shall be toward the mercy seat.
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John Trapp 1656 · Public Domain 2Ch 3:13 The wings of these cherubims spread themselves…
2Ch 3:13 The wings of these cherubims spread themselves forth twenty cubits: and they stood on their feet, and their faces [were] inward.
Ver. 13. And their faces were inward.] Heb., Toward the house; i.e., toward the holy place, called the greater house. {2Ch 3:5}
John Trapp, A Commentary or Exposition upon All the Books of the Old and New Testament (1647–1656) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.
Matthew Poole 1685 · Public Domain Heb. Towards the house, or rather, that house; not…
Heb. Towards the house, or rather, that house; not the holy house, as divers understand it; for then their backs must have been turned towards the ark, which was indecent, and directly contrary to the posture of Moses’s cherubims, which looked towards it; but the most holy house, which was last named, 1Ch 3:8, and of which he continues yet to speak; this posture being most agreeable to their use, which was with their wings to close in the ark and cover it, as it is expressly affirmed below, 1Ch 5:8.
Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible (1683–1685) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword/MySword module.
John Wesley 1765 · Public Domain Inward - Hebrew. towards the house, that is, the…
Inward - Hebrew. towards the house, that is, the most holy house.
John Wesley, Explanatory Notes Upon the Whole Bible (1754–1765) — public domain. Text via the GEBible commentary corpus.
Albert Barnes 1834 · Public Domain Their faces were inward - literally, as in the…
Their faces were inward - literally, as in the margin. Instead of looking toward one another, with heads bent downward over the mercy Seat, like the cherubim of Moses Exo 37:9, these of Solomon looked out from the sanctuary into the great chamber (“the house”). The cherubim thus stood upright on either side of the ark, like two sentinels guarding it.
Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible (1834–1885) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword/MySword module.
Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary 1859 · Public Domain Toward. Hebrew, "inward;" looking at each other, (Exodus xxv.…
Toward. Hebrew, "inward;" looking at each other, (Exodus xxv. 20.) or towards the altar of holocausts.
George Leo Haydock (1774–1849), Haydock's Catholic Family Bible and Commentary, 1859 edition — public domain. Excludes Psalms (Douay-Rheims chapter numbering differs from Protestant) and Deuterocanonical books (Catholic canon only).
The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges 1878 · Public Domain 13. twenty cubits] Extending across the width of the…
13. twenty cubits] Extending across the width of the whole house.
on their feet] Not “couchant” nor “rampant” but standing as the winged bulls of Assyria stand.
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inward] R.V. towards the house, as though to protect the Holiest Place from violation from anyone advancing through the house.
The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges (gen. ed. J. J. S. Perowne; Cambridge University Press, 1878–1918) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers 1878 · Public Domain (13) The wings of these cherubims.—Or, These wings of…
(13) The wings of these cherubims.—Or, These wings of the cherubim.
Spread themselves forth.—Were outspreading (participle), 1Ch_28:18.
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And they stood.—Were standing. They were ten cubits high (1Ki_6:26).
Inward.—See margin. Translate, toward the chamber. The cherubs did not face each other like the cherubim on the mercy seat (Exo_25:20).
A Bible Commentary for English Readers, edited by Charles John Ellicott (1878–1897) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.
The Pulpit Commentary 1880 · Public Domain Their faces were inward; Hebrew, "were to the house,"…
Their faces were inward; Hebrew, "were to the house," viz. to the holy place. The position of these cherubim, both as to wings and faces, was clearly different from that of those for the tabernacle of Moses. There they "cover the mercy-seat with their wings, and their faces are one to another toward the mercy-seat were the faces of the cherubim". (Exo_25:20 Exo_37:9) May this alteration in the time of Solomon indicate possibly one more advance in the developing outlook of Divine mercy to a whole world? Neither this place nor the parallel makes it certain whether the cherubim, that are here said to stand on their feet, stood on the ground, as some say they did. As regards those of the tabernacle, the prepositions used in Exo_25:18, 19 and Exo_37:7, 8 appear to lay stress on their position being a fixture at and on each extremity of the mercy-seat.
The Pulpit Commentary (1880–1919), ed. H.D.M. Spence-Jones & Joseph S. Exell — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.
unfoldingWord translationNotes 2017 · CC BY-SA 4.0 twenty cubits
twenty cubits
A cubit is 46 centimeters. AT: "9.2 meters" (See: Biblical Distance)
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He made ... he fashioned
The readers should understand that Solomon probably commanded other people to do the actual work. AT: "Solomon's workers made ... they fashioned" (See: Metonymy)
blue, purple, and crimson wool
Translate these words as you did in 2 Chronicles 2:7.
fine linen
"high quality cloth" or "the best cloth"
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curtain
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