1 Kings 8:7-9

The Voice

⁷ The creatures’ wings were spread above the chest, forming a sort of canopy over the chest and its carrying rods. ⁸ The carrying rods were long enough that they poked through the curtains and could be seen from the sacred place in front of the inner sanctuary, but a person could not see them from outside. The carrying rods are still there today.

⁹ The only things inside the covenant chest were the two stone tablets Moses placed there in Horeb, where the Eternal One entered into a covenant with the Israelites after they had departed from Egypt.