7The cherubim spread their wings over the place of the ark and overshadowed the ark and its carrying poles.


In Context

4 and they brought up the ark of the Lord and the Tent of Meeting and all the sacred furnishings in it. The priests and Levites carried them up,

5 and King Solomon and the entire assembly of Israel that had gathered about him were before the ark, sacrificing so many sheep and cattle that they could not be recorded or counted.

6 The priests then brought the ark of the Lord 's covenant to its place in the inner sanctuary of the temple, the Most Holy Place, and put it beneath the wings of the cherubim.

7 The cherubim spread their wings over the place of the ark and overshadowed the ark and its carrying poles.

8 These poles were so long that their ends could be seen from the Holy Place in front of the inner sanctuary, but not from outside the Holy Place; and they are still there today.

9 There was nothing in the ark except the two stone tablets that Moses had placed in it at Horeb, where the Lord made a covenant with the Israelites after they came out of Egypt.

1st Kings 8:7 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

8:7For the cherubims spread forth [their] two wings over the place of the ark, and the cherubims covered the ark and the staves thereof above.

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

8:7For the cherubims spread forth their wings over the place of the ark, and covered the art, and the staves thereof above.

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

8:7For 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

8:7for 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

8:7For 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

8:7For the cherubim spread forth their two wings over the place of the ark, and the cherubim covered the ark and the staffs thereof above.

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

8:7For 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

8:7for 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;

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

8:7For the cherubim spread forth their two wings over the place of the ark, and the cherubim covered the ark and the staves thereof above.