1 Kings 8:8 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

⁸ 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.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁸ And they drew out the staves, that the ends of the staves were seen out in the holy place before the oracle, and they were not seen without: and there they are unto this day.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁸ The poles were so long that the ends of them were seen from the Holy Place before the Holy of Holies, but they were not seen outside; they are there to this day.

American Standard Version (1901)

⁸ And the staves were so long that the ends of the staves were seen from the holy place before the oracle; but they were not seen without: and there they are unto this day.

Common English Bible

⁸ The carrying poles were so long that their tips could be seen from the holy place in front of the inner sanctuary, though they weren’t visible from outside. They are still there today.

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁸ And since the bars projected outward, their ends were visible from without, in the Sanctuary before the oracle; but they were not visible farther outward. And they have been in that place even to the present day.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

⁸ And whereas the staves stood out, the ends of them were seen without in the sanctuary before the oracle, but were not seen farther out: and there they have been unto this day.

1 Kings 8:8 Cross References

1 Kings 8:7

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.

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.

Exodus 40:20

He took the covenant and put it into the ark and put the poles on the ark and set the cover above the ark,

Matthew 28:15

So they took the money and did as they were directed. And this story is still told among the Judeans to this day.

Joshua 4:9

(Joshua set up twelve stones in the middle of the Jordan, in the place where the feet of the priests bearing the ark of the covenant had stood, and they are there to this day.)