For the cherubim spread out their wings over the place of the ark, and the cherubim covered the ark and its poles above.
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For the cherubim spread out their wings over the place of the ark, and the cherubim covered the ark and its poles above.
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For the cherubims spread forth their wings over the place of the ark, and the cherubims covered the ark and the staves thereof above.
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For the cherubim spread forth their wings over the place of the ark, and the cherubim covered the ark and the staves thereof above.
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Passages linked to 2 Chronicles 5:8 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, ordered by reader-vote popularity; verse text shown in World English Bible.
- Exodus 25:12-15 You shall cast four rings of gold for it, and put them in its four feet. Two rings shall be on the one side of it, and two rings on the other side of it. You shall make poles of acacia wood, and overlay them with gold. You shall put the poles into the rings on the sides of the ark to carry the ark. The poles shall be in the rings of the ark. They shall not be taken from it.
- Exodus 37:3-5 He cast four rings of gold for it, in its four feet—two rings on its one side, and two rings on its other side. He made poles of acacia wood, and overlaid them with gold. He put the poles into the rings on the sides of the ark, to bear the ark.
- Numbers 4:6 put a covering of sealskin on it, spread a blue cloth over it, and put in its poles.
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Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers 1878 · Public Domain (8) For the cherubims spread forth their wings.—Rather, And…
(8) For the cherubims spread forth their wings.—Rather, And the cherubim were spreading forth wings. Kings has for (kî); making the sentence an explanation of the last clause of 2Ch_5:7.
Covered.—Kings has the technical term for the cherubim “covering” the ark (Exo_25:20; 1Ch_28:18). In Hebrew writing, the difference is marked by the transposition of a single letter. Perhaps, therefore, our present reading is a clerical error.
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