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


In Context

5 and they brought up the ark, and the Tent of Meeting, and all the holy vessels that were in the Tent; these did the priests the Levites bring up.

6 King Solomon and all the congregation of Israel, that were assembled to him, were before the ark, sacrificing sheep and cattle, that could not be counted nor numbered for multitude.

7 The priests brought in the ark of the covenant of Yahweh to its place, into the oracle of the house, to the most holy place, even under the wings of the cherubim.

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

9 The poles were so long that the ends of the poles were seen from the ark before the oracle; but they were not seen outside: and there it is to this day.

10 There was nothing in the ark except the two tables which Moses put there at Horeb, when Yahweh made a covenant with the children of Israel, when they came 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 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 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.