1 Reis 6:27

27 E pôs os querubins na parte mais interior da casa. As asas dos querubins se estendiam de maneira que a asa de um tocava numa parede, e a do outro na outra parede, e as suas asas no meio da casa tocavam uma na outra.

1 Reis 6:27 Meaning and Commentary

1 Kings 6:27

And he set the cherubim within the inner house
The holy of holies:

and they stretched forth the wings of the cherubims;
the carvers that framed them, they wrought them in that form; or impersonally, the wings of the cherubim were stretched out; this was the position of them, they overshadowed and covered the mercy seat and ark, and even the other two cherubim that were at the ends of the mercy seat:

so that the wing of the one touched the one wall;
the southern wall:

and the wing of the other cherub touched the other wall;
the northern wall; they reached from wall to wall, even the whole breadth of the house, which was twenty cubits, as their wings thus spread were, ( 1 Kings 6:24 1 Kings 6:25 ) ( 2 Chronicles 3:11 ) ;

and their wings touched one another in the midst of the house;
which was ten cubits, and that was the spread of the wings of each of them; so that the wing of the right side of the one, stretched out, touched the wing of the left side of the other fit the same position; in ( 2 Chronicles 3:13 ) ; their faces are said to be "inward", or "toward the house"; either toward the holy place, and so faced those that came into that and saw them; or towards the inner part of the holy of holies, their backs being to the holy place, or their faces were inward, and looked obliquely to each other.

1 Reis 6:27 In-Context

25 Assim era também o outro querubim; ambos os querubins eram da mesma medida e do mesmo talho.
26 Um querubim tinha dez côvados de altura, e assim também o outro.
27 E pôs os querubins na parte mais interior da casa. As asas dos querubins se estendiam de maneira que a asa de um tocava numa parede, e a do outro na outra parede, e as suas asas no meio da casa tocavam uma na outra.
28 Também cobriu de ouro os querubins.
29 Quanto a todas as paredes da casa em redor, entalhou-as de querubins, de palmas e de palmas abertas, tanto na parte mais interior como na mais exterior.
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