2 Chronicles 5:8
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New International Version (©2011)
The cherubim spread their wings over the place of the ark and covered the ark and its carrying poles.

New Living Translation (©2007)
The cherubim spread their wings over the Ark, forming a canopy over the Ark and its carrying poles.

English Standard Version (©2001)
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.

New American Standard Bible (©1995)
For the cherubim spread their wings over the place of the ark, so that the cherubim made a covering over the ark and its poles.

King James Bible (Cambridge Ed.)
For the cherubims spread forth their wings over the place of the ark, and the cherubims covered the ark and the staves thereof above.

Holman Christian Standard Bible (©2009)
And the cherubim spread their wings over the place of the ark so that the cherubim formed a cover above the ark and its poles.

International Standard Version (©2012)
The wings of the cherubim extended over where the ark and its carrying poles had been placed,

NET Bible (©2006)
The cherubs' wings extended over the place where the ark sat; the cherubs overshadowed the ark and its poles.

GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
The angels' outstretched wings were over the place where the ark [rested] so that the angels became a covering above the ark and its poles.

King James 2000 Bible (©2003)
For the cherubim spread forth their wings over the place of the ark, and the cherubim covered the ark and its poles.

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

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

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

Darby Bible Translation
and the cherubim stretched forth their wings over the place of the ark, and the cherubim covered the ark and its staves above.

English Revised Version
For the cherubim spread forth their wings over the place of the ark, and the cherubim covered the ark and the staves thereof above:

Webster's Bible Translation
For the cherubim spread forth their wings over the place of the ark, and the cherubim covered the ark, and the staffs of it above.

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

Young's Literal Translation
and 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;

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary

5:1-10 The ark was a type of Christ, and, as such, a token of the presence of God. That gracious promise, Lo, I am with you alway, even unto the end of the world, does, in effect, bring the ark into our religious assemblies, if we by faith and prayer plead that promise; and this we should be most earnest for. When Christ is formed in a soul, the law written in the heart, the ark of the covenant settled there, so that it becomes the temple of the Holy Ghost, there is true satisfaction in that soul.

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The Ark Enters the Temple
…7And the priests brought in the ark of the covenant of the LORD to his place, to the oracle of the house, into the most holy place, even under the wings of the cherubim: 8For the cherubim spread forth their wings over the place of the ark, and the cherubim covered the ark and the staves thereof above. 9And they drew out the staves of the ark, that the ends of the staves were seen from the ark before the oracle; but they were not seen without. And there it is to this day.

2 Chronicles 5:7 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.
2 Chronicles 5:9 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.