2 Chronicles 5:8
8 The cherubim spread their wings over the place of the ark and covered the ark and its carrying poles.
Other Translations of 2 Chronicles 5:8
King James Version
8 For the cherubims spread forth their wings over the place of the ark, and the cherubims covered the ark and the staves thereof above.
English Standard Version
8 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.
The Message
8 The outspread wings of the cherubim formed a canopy over the Chest and its poles.
New King James Version
8 For the cherubim spread their wings over the place of the ark, and the cherubim overshadowed the ark and its poles.
New Living Translation
8 The cherubim spread their wings over the Ark, forming a canopy over the Ark and its carrying poles.
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Matthew Henry's Commentary on 2 Chronicles 5:8
Commentary on 2 Chronicles 5:1-10
(Read 2 Chronicles 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.