1 Kings 8:7-9

American Standard Version

⁷ For the cherubim spread forth their wings over the place of the ark, and the cherubim covered the ark and the staves thereof above. ⁸ And ^[a]the staves were so long that the ends of the staves were seen from the holy place before the oracle; but they were not seen without: and there they are unto this day. ⁹ There was nothing in the ark save the two tables of stone which Moses put there at Horeb, ^[b]when Jehovah made a covenant with the children of Israel, when they came out of the land of Egypt.