For the Cherubims stretched out their wings over the place of the Ark, and the Cherubims covered the Ark, and the bars thereof above.

And they [a]drew out the bars, that the ends of the bars might appear out of the Sanctuary before the oracle, but they were not seen without: and there they are unto this day.

Nothing was in the Ark [b]save the two tables of stone which Moses had put there at Horeb, where the Lord made a covenant with the children of Israel, when he brought them out of the land of Egypt.

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Kings 8:8 They drew them only out so far as they might be seen: for they might not pull them altogether out, Exod. 25:15.
  2. 1 Kings 8:9 For it is like that the enemies when they had the Ark in their hands, took away the rod of Aaron and the pot with Manna.

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