2 Chronicles 5:8 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

For the cherubim spread out their wings over the place of the ark, so that the cherubim made a covering above the ark and its poles.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

for the cherubims spread forth their wings over the place of the ark, and the cherubims covered the ark and the staves thereof above.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

For the cherubim spread out their wings over the place of the ark, making a covering above the ark and its poles.

American Standard Version (1901)

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

Common English Bible

The winged creatures spread their wings over the place where the chest rested, covering the chest and its carrying poles.

Catholic Public Domain Version

so that the cherubim extended their wings over the place where the ark was positioned, and they covered the ark itself and its bars.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

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

2 Chronicles 5:8 Cross References

2 Chronicles 5:7

Then the priests brought the ark of the covenant of the Lord to its place, in the inner sanctuary of the house, in the most holy place, underneath the wings of the cherubim.

2 Chronicles 5:9

The poles were so long that the ends of the poles were seen from the holy place in front of the inner sanctuary, but they could not be seen from outside; they are there to this day.

Numbers 4:6

then they shall put on it a covering of fine leather and spread over that a cloth all of blue and put its poles in place.