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(A) beneath the wings of the cherubim. For the cherubim were spreading their wings over[a] the place of the ark, so that the cherubim covered the ark and its poles from above.(B) The poles were so long that their ends were seen from the holy place in front of the inner sanctuary, but they were not seen from outside the sanctuary; they are still there today.(C)

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  1. 8:7 LXX; MT reads toward

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