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## 2 Chronicles 5:8 in Context (Verses 5–11 KJV)
 
 [5 ](/kjv/2-chronicles/5/5) And they brought up the ark, and the tabernacle of the congregation, and all the holy vessels that *were* in the tabernacle, these did the priests *and* the Levites bring up.
 
 [6 ](/kjv/2-chronicles/5/6) Also king Solomon, and all the congregation of Israel that were assembled unto him before the ark, sacrificed sheep and oxen, which could not be told nor numbered for multitude.
 
 [7 ](/kjv/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:
 
 [8 ](/kjv/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.
 
 [9 ](/kjv/2-chronicles/5/9) 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.*
 
 [10 ](/kjv/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.*
 
 [11 ](/kjv/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:*
 
[2 Chronicles 4](/kjv/2-chronicles/4) [2 Chronicles 6](/kjv/2-chronicles/6)

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