7. The cherubim spread their wings over the place of the ark and overshadowed the ark and its carrying poles.
8. These poles were so long that their ends could be seen from the Holy Place in front of the inner sanctuary, but not from outside the Holy Place; and they are still there today.
9. There was nothing in the ark except the two stone tablets that Moses had placed in it at Horeb, where the Lord made a covenant with the Israelites after they came out of Egypt.
10. When the priests withdrew from the Holy Place, the cloud filled the temple of the Lord.
11. And the priests could not perform their service because of the cloud, for the glory of the Lord filled his temple.