1 Kings 8:7
5 There, before the ark, King Solomon and the whole congregation of Israel who had assembled with him sacrificed so many sheep and oxen that they could not be counted or numbered.
6 Then the priests brought the ark of the covenant of the LORD to its place in the inner sanctuary of the temple, the Most Holy Place, beneath the wings of the cherubim.
For the cherubim spread their wings over the place of the ark and overshadowed the ark and its poles.
8 The poles extended far enough that their ends were visible from the Holy Place in front of the inner sanctuary, but not from outside the Holy Place; and they are there to this day.
9 There was nothing in the ark except the two stone tablets that Moses had placed in it at Horeb, where the LORD had made a covenant with the Israelites after they had come out of the land of Egypt.
Here the Bible tells a story about someone else. Ask yourself what it can say to us today. Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- For the cherubim spread their wings over the place of the ark and overshadowed the ark and its poles.
- KJV
- For the cherubims spread forth their two wings over the place of the ark, and the cherubims covered the ark and the staves thereof above.
- WEB
- For the cherubim spread their wings out over the place of the ark, and the cherubim covered the ark and its poles above.
- ASV
- For the cherubim spread forth their wings over the place of the ark, and the cherubim covered the ark and the staves thereof above.
- DARBY
- for the cherubim stretched forth [their] wings over the place of the ark, and the cherubim covered the ark and its staves above.
- BLB
- For the cherubim spread forth two wings toward the place of the ark, and the cherubim and they covered over the ark and its poles from above.
- ÅB
- For kjerubene bredte sine vinger ut over det sted hvor arken sto, så at kjerubene ovenfra dekket både over arken og dens stenger.
- OTB
- For kjerubene bredte sine vinger over arkens plass, og kjerubene dannet et dekke over arken og dens stenger ovenfra.
- B1930
- For kjerubene bredte sine vinger ut over det sted hvor arken stod, så at kjerubene ovenfra dekket både over arken og dens stenger.