So the [a]Priests brought the Ark of the Covenant of the Lord unto his place, into the oracle of the house into the most holy place, even under the wings of the Cherubims.

For the Cherubims stretched out their wings over the place of the Ark, and the Cherubims covered the Ark, and the bars thereof above.

And they [b]drew out the bars, that the ends of the bars might appear out of the Sanctuary before the oracle, but they were not seen without: and there they are unto this day.

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Kings 8:6 That is, the Kohathites, Num. 4:5.
  2. 1 Kings 8:8 They drew them only out so far as they might be seen: for they might not pull them altogether out, Exod. 25:15.

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