8So that the cherubims spread their wings over the place, in which the ark was set, and covered the ark itself and its staves.


In Context

5 And brought it in, together with all the furniture of the tabernacle. And the priests with the Levites carried the vessels of the sanctuary, which were in the tabernacle.

6 And king Solomon and all the assembly of Israel, and all that were gathered together before the ark, sacrificed rams, and oxen without number: so great was the multitude of the victims.

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:

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

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.

10 And there was nothing else in the ark but the two tables which Moses put there at Horeb when the Lord gave the law to the children of Israel, at their coming out of Egypt.

2 Chronicles 5:8 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

5:8For the cherubims spread forth [their] wings over the place of the ark, and the cherubims covered the ark and the staves thereof above.

The New International Version of the Holy Bible

5:8The cherubim spread their wings over the place of the ark and covered the ark and its carrying poles.

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

5:8For the cherubim spread forth their wings over the place of the ark, and the cherubim covered the ark and the staves thereof above.

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

5:8and the cherubim stretched forth their wings over the place of the ark, and the cherubim covered the ark and its staves above.

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

5:8For the cherubim spread forth their wings over the place of the ark, and the cherubim covered the ark and the staves thereof above:

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

5:8For the cherubim spread forth their wings over the place of the ark, and the cherubim covered the ark, and the staffs of it above.

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

5:8For the cherubim spread forth their wings over the place of the ark, and the cherubim covered the ark and its poles above.

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

5:8and 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;

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

5:8For the cherubim spread forth their wings over the place of the ark, and the cherubim covered the ark and the staves thereof above.