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1 Kings 8:9

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There was nothing in the ark save the two tables of stone, which Moses put there at Horeb, when the Lord made a covenant with the children of Israel, when they came out of the land of Egypt.

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  1. 1 Kings 8:7

    For the cherubims spread forth their two wings over the place of the ark, and the cherubims covered the ark and the staves thereof above.

  2. 1 Kings 8:8

    And they drew out the staves, that the ends of the staves were seen out in the holy place before the oracle, and they were not seen without: and there they are unto this day.

  3. 1 Kings 8:10

    And it came to pass, when the priests were come out of the holy place, that the cloud filled the house of the Lord,

  4. 1 Kings 8:11

    So that the priests could not stand to minister because of the cloud: for the glory of the Lord had filled the house of the Lord.

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Scripture: King James Version (KJV), English, 66-book canon. The quotation retains the wording and numbering of our source corpus.