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


In Context

5 and they brought up the ark and the Tent of Meeting and all the sacred furnishings in it. The priests, who were Levites, carried them up;

6 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.

7 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.

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

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

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

2nd 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 Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

5:8So that the cherubims spread their wings over the place, in which the ark was set, and covered the ark itself and its staves.

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.