After this sacrificing was ended, the priests carried the ark to its place, into the back-room of the house, into the Most Holy under the wings of the cherubim (already described in 1 Kings 6:23.). The latter statement is explained in 1 Kings 8:7. "For the cherubim were spreading out wings towards the place of the ark, and so covered (lit., threw a shade) over the ark and over its poles from above." If the outspread wings of the great cherubic figures threw a shade not only over the ark of the covenant, but also over its poles, the ark was probably so placed that the poles ran from north to south, and not from east to west, as they are sketched in my Archologie.

1 Kings 8:13 Parallel Commentaries

surely built

2 Samuel 7:13 He shall build an house for my name, and I will establish the throne of his kingdom for ever.

1 Chronicles 17:12 He shall build me an house, and I will establish his throne for ever.

1 Chronicles 22:10,11 He shall build an house for my name; and he shall be my son, and I will be his father...

1 Chronicles 28:6,10,20 And he said to me, Solomon your son, he shall build my house and my courts: for I have chosen him to be my son...

2 Chronicles 6:2 But I have built an house of habitation for you, and a place for your dwelling for ever.

a settled

Psalm 78:68,69 But chose the tribe of Judah, the mount Zion which he loved...

Psalm 132:13,14 For the LORD has chosen Zion; he has desired it for his habitation...

John 4:21-23 Jesus said to her, Woman, believe me, the hour comes, when you shall neither in this mountain, nor yet at Jerusalem...

Acts 6:14 For we have heard him say, that this Jesus of Nazareth shall destroy this place, and shall change the customs which Moses delivered us.

Hebrews 8:5-13 Who serve to the example and shadow of heavenly things, as Moses was admonished of God when he was about to make the tabernacle: for...

Hebrews 9:11,12,24 But Christ being come an high priest of good things to come, by a greater and more perfect tabernacle, not made with hands...