9
The poles were so long that their ends were seen from the holy place[a] in front of the inner sanctuary, but they were not seen from outside; they are there to this very day.
7
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.
8
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.
9
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; they are there to this very day.
10
Nothing was in the ark except the two tablets that Moses had put [in it] at Horeb,where the Lord had made a covenant with the Israelites when they came out of Egypt.
11
When the priests came out of the holy place-for all the priests who were present had consecrated themselves regardless of their tour of duty-
Footnotes 1
[a].
Some Hb mss, LXX; other Hb mss read the ark; 1 Kg 8:8