1 Re 6:27

27 E Salomone pose i cherubini in mezzo alla casa, nell’interno. I cherubini aveano le ali spiegate, in guisa che l’ala del primo toccava una delle pareti, e l’ala del secondo toccava l’altra parete; le altre ali si toccavano l’una l’altra con le punte, in mezzo alla casa.

1 Re 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 Re 6:27 In-Context

25 Il secondo cherubino era parimente di dieci cubiti; ambedue i cherubini erano delle stesse dimensioni e della stessa forma.

26 L’altezza dell’uno dei cherubini era di dieci cubiti, e tale era l’altezza dell’altro.

27 E Salomone pose i cherubini in mezzo alla casa, nell’interno. I cherubini aveano le ali spiegate, in guisa che l’ala del primo toccava una delle pareti, e l’ala del secondo toccava l’altra parete; le altre ali si toccavano l’una l’altra con le punte, in mezzo alla casa.

28 Salomone ricoprì d’oro i cherubini.

29 E fece ornare tutte le pareti della casa, all’intorno, tanto all’interno quanto all’esterno, di sculture di cherubini, di palme e di fiori sbocciati.