2nd Chronicles Chapter 3 verse 13 Holy Bible
The wings of these cherubim spread themselves forth twenty cubits: and they stood on their feet, and their faces were toward the house.
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Their outstretched wings were twenty cubits across; they were placed upright on their feet, facing the inner part of the house.
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The wings of these cherubim spread forth were twenty cubits; and they stood on their feet, and their faces were toward the house.
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The wings of these cherubim spread themselves forth twenty cubits: and they stood on their feet, and their faces were inward.
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The wings of these cherubim spread themselves forth twenty cubits: and they stood on their feet, and their faces were inward.
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The wings of these cherubim spread themselves forth twenty cubits: and they stood on their feet, and their faces were toward the house.
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The wings of these cherubs are spreading forth twenty cubits, and they are standing on their feet and their faces `are' inward.
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Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerse 13. - Their faces were inward; Hebrew, "were to the house," viz. to the holy place. The position of these cherubim, both as to wings and faces, was clearly different from that of those for the tabernacle of Moses. There they "cover the mercy-seat with their wings, and their faces are one to another... toward the mercy-seat were the faces of the cherubim" (Exodus 25:20; Exodus 37:9). May this alteration in the time of Solomon indicate possibly one more advance in the developing outlook of Divine mercy to a whole world? Neither this place nor the parallel makes it certain whether the cherubim, that are here said to stand on their feet, stood on the ground, as some say they did. As regards those of the tabernacle, the prepositions used in Exodus 25:18, 19 and Exodus 37:7, 8 appear to lay stress on their position being a fixture at and on each extremity of the mercy-seat.
Ellicott's Commentary
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(13) The wings of these cherubims.--Or, These wings of the cherubim.Spread themselves forth.--Were outspreading (participle), 1Chronicles 28:18.And they stood.--Were standing. They were ten cubits high (1Kings 6:26).Inward.--See margin. Translate, toward the chamber. The cherubs did not face each other like the cherubim on the mercy seat (Exodus 25:20).
