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2 Chronicles 5:9

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And they drew out the staves of the ark, that the ends of the staves were seen from the ark before the oracle; but they were not seen without. And there it is unto this day.

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  1. 2 Chronicles 5:7

    And the priests brought in the ark of the covenant of the Lord unto his place, to the oracle of the house, into the most holy place, even under the wings of the cherubims:

  2. 2 Chronicles 5:8

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

  3. 2 Chronicles 5:10

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

  4. 2 Chronicles 5:11

    And it came to pass, when the priests were come out of the holy place: (for all the priests that were present were sanctified, and did not then wait by course:

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