2 Chronicles 5:9

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.

2 Chronicles 5:9 Meaning and Commentary

2 Chronicles 5:9

(See Gill on 2 Chronicles 5:1).

2 Chronicles 5:9 In-Context

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

• [a] Some Hb mss, LXX; other Hb mss read the ark; 1 Kg 8:8