2 Chronicles 5:8
For the cherubims spread forth their wings over the place of the ark, and the cherubims covered the ark and the staves thereof above.
2 Chronicles 5:8 in other translations
| BSB | For the cherubim spread their wings over the place of the ark and overshadowed the ark and its poles. |
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| WEB | For the cherubim spread out their wings over the place of the ark, and the cherubim covered the ark and its poles above. |
| ASV | For the cherubim spread forth their wings over the place of the ark, and the cherubim covered the ark and the staves thereof above. |
| YLT | and the cherubs are spreading out wings over the place of the ark, and the cherubs cover over the ark, and over its staves, from above; |
| DARBY | and the cherubim stretched forth their wings over the place of the ark, and the cherubim covered the ark and its staves above. |
| BBE | For their wings were outstretched over the place where the ark was, covering the ark and its rods. |
| Webster | For the cherubim spread forth their wings over the place of the ark, and the cherubim covered the ark, and the staffs of it above. |
What does 2 Chronicles 5:8 mean?
Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on 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…
2 Chronicles 5:8 in the original Hebrew
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Cross references for 2 Chronicles 5:8
- Exodus 37:3-5
And he cast for it four rings of gold, to be set by the four corners of it; even two rings upon the one side of it, and two rings upon the other side of it. And he made staves of shittim wood, and overlaid them with gold. And he put the staves into the rings by the sides of the ark, to bear the ark.
- Exodus 25:12-15
And thou shalt cast four rings of gold for it, and put them in the four corners thereof; and two rings shall be in the one side of it, and two rings in the other side of it. And thou shalt make staves of shittim wood, and overlay them with gold. And thou shalt put the staves into the rings by the sides of the ark, that the ark may be borne with them. The staves shall be in the rings of the ark: they shall not be taken from it.
- Numbers 4:6
And shall put thereon the covering of badgers’ skins, and shall spread over it a cloth wholly of blue, and shall put in the staves thereof.
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Ex 25:12-15; 37:3-5; Nu 4:6
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Context
- 2 Chronicles 5:7
And the priests brought in the ark of the covenant of the Lord unto his place, to the oracle of the house, into the most holy place, even under the wings of the cherubims:
- 2 Chronicles 5:8
For the cherubims spread forth their wings over the place of the ark, and the cherubims covered the ark and the staves thereof above.
- 2 Chronicles 5:9
And they drew out the staves of the ark, that the ends of the staves were seen from the ark before the oracle; but they were not seen without. And there it is unto this day.
2 Chronicles 5:8 in other languages
| Spanish Reina-Valera 1909 | Pues los querubines extendían las alas sobre el asiento del arca, y cubrían los querubines por encima así el arca como sus barras. |
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| French Bible J.N. Darby 1885 | Et les chérubins étendaient les ailes sur le lieu de l’arche; et les chérubins couvraient l’arche et ses barres, par-dessus. |
| German Elberfelder 1871 | denn die Cherubim breiteten die Flügel aus über den Ort der Lade, und die Cherubim bedeckten die Lade und ihre Stangen von oben her. |
| Latin Clementine Vulgate | ita ut cherubim expanderent alas suas super locum in quo posita erat arca, et ipsam arcam tegerent cum vectibus suis. |