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The Cherubim

23 For the inner sanctuary he made two cherubim[a] of olive wood. Each one was fifteen feet tall. 24 Seven and a half feet was the length of one wing of a cherub, and seven and a half feet was the length of the other wing of a cherub. The distance from the tip of one wing to the tip of the other was fifteen feet.[b] 25 The other cherub also was fifteen feet wide. Both of the cherubim were the same size and looked the same.

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Kings 6:23 Cherubim are the angels who are the Lord’s honor guard. They are described in Ezekiel 1.
  2. 1 Kings 6:24 The EHV retains the repetitious style of the text, which may be for rhetorical emphasis.