The priests brought the ark of the Lord’s covenant to its place, into the inner sanctuary of the temple, to the most holy place, beneath the wings of the cherubim.(A) 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. The poles were so long that their ends were seen from the holy place[a](B) in front of the inner sanctuary, but they were not seen from outside; they are still there today.

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Footnotes

  1. 5:9 Some Hb mss, LXX; other Hb mss read the ark; 1Kg 8:8

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