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1 Kings 8:71Kgs.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.

KJV

Hebrew original

כִּ֤י הַ/כְּרוּבִים֙ פֹּרְשִׂ֣ים כְּנָפַ֔יִם אֶל מְק֖וֹם הָֽ/אָר֑וֹן וַ/יָּסֹ֧כּוּ הַ/כְּרֻבִ֛ים עַל הָ/אָר֥וֹן וְ/עַל בַּדָּ֖י/ו מִ/לְ/מָֽעְלָ/ה

Translations

Louis Segond 1910

Car les chérubins avaient les ailes étendues sur la place de l'arche, et ils couvraient l'arche et ses barres par-dessus.

KJV

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.

Patristic reading

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  • Thomas Aquinas

    Summa Theologica

    ing indignant with them, so to speak, He granted them a king, as is clear from His words to Samuel ( 1 Kings 8:7 ): "They have not rejected thee, but Me, that I should not reign over them." Nevertheless, as regards the appointment of a king, He did establish the manner of electio…

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