2 Chronicles 3:13 BSB

2 Chronicles 3:13

So the total wingspan of these cherubim was twenty cubits. They stood on their feet, facing the main room.

BSB

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ASV

The wings of these cherubim spread themselves forth twenty cubits: and they stood on their feet, and their faces were toward the house.

KJV

The wings of these cherubims spread themselves forth twenty cubits: and they stood on their feet, and their faces were inward.

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Commentary

1 voice

Albert Barnes

1798–1870

Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869)

Their faces were inward - literally, as in the margin. Instead of looking toward one another, with heads bent downward over the mercy Seat, like the cherubim of Moses Exo 37:9, these of Solomon looked out from the sanctuary into the great chamber (“the house”). The cherubim thus stood upright on either side of the ark, like two sentinels guarding it.

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Original language & word study

12 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
כַּנְפֵי֙	kan.Fei	[the] wings of	H3671 →
הַכְּרוּבִ֣ים	ha.ke.ru.Vim	the cherubim	H3742 →
הָאֵ֔לֶּה	ha.'E.leh	<the> these	H428 →
פֹּֽרְשִׂ֖ים	po.re.Sim	[were] spreading out	H6566 →
אַמּ֣וֹת	'a.Mot	cubits	H520 →
עֶשְׂרִ֑ים	'es.Rim	twenty	H6242 →
וְהֵ֛ם	ve.Hem	and they	H1992 →
עֹמְדִ֥ים	'o.me.Dim	[were] standing	H5975 →
עַל־	'al-	on	H5921 →
רַגְלֵיהֶ֖ם	rag.lei.Hem	feet their	H7272 →
וּפְנֵיהֶ֥ם	u.fe.nei.Hem	and faces their	H6440 →
לַבָּֽיִת׃ ס	la.Ba.yit	[were] to the inside	H1004 →

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Where the connections lead

Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

Through
Exodus 25:20
And the cherubim are to have wings that spread upward, overshadowing the mercy seat. The cherubim are to face each other, looking toward the mercy seat.
leads to
- 1 Chronicles 28:18
  the weight of the refined gold for the altar of incense; and the plans for the chariot of the gold cherubim that spread their wings and overshadowed the ark of the covenant of the…
- 1 Kings 8:7
  For the cherubim spread their wings over the place of the ark and overshadowed the ark and its poles.
- Hebrews 9:5
  Above the ark were the cherubim of glory, overshadowing the mercy seat. But we cannot discuss these things in detail now.
- Isaiah 6:1–5
  In the year that King Uzziah died, I saw the Lord seated on a throne, high and exalted; and the train of His robe filled the temple.
- Exodus 25:18
  Make two cherubim of hammered gold at the ends of the mercy seat,

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02Original language & word study

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Where the connections lead

04Related verses

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06About 2 Chronicles

Where the connections lead

Commentary

Original language & word study

The walk

Related verses

Featured studies on this passage

About 2 Chronicles