15He also made two pillars for the front of the house, thirty-five cubits high, and the capital on the top of each was five cubits. 16He made chains in the inner sanctuary and placed them on the tops of the pillars; and he made one hundred pomegranates and placed them on the chains. 17He erected the pillars in front of the temple, one on the right and the other on the left, and named the one on the right Jachin and the one on the left Boaz.

Parallel Verses

New American Standard Bible (©1995)
Then he made two sculptured cherubim in the room of the holy of holies and overlaid them with gold.

GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
In the most holy place he made two sculptured angels and covered them with gold.

King James Bible
And in the most holy house he made two cherubims of image work, and overlaid them with gold.

Douay-Rheims Bible
He made also in the house of the holy of holies two cherubims of image work: and he overlaid them with gold.

Darby Bible Translation
And in the house of the most holy place he made two cherubim of image work, and they overlaid them with gold.

English Revised Version
And in the most holy house he made two cherubim of image work; and they overlaid them with gold.

Webster's Bible Translation
And in the most holy house he made two cherubim of image work, and overlaid them with gold.

World English Bible
In the most holy house he made two cherubim of image work; and they overlaid them with gold.

Young's Literal Translation
And he maketh in the most holy house two cherubs, image work, and he overlayeth them with gold;

Cross References

Exodus 25:18 "You shall make two cherubim of gold, make them of hammered work at the two ends of the mercy seat.

1 Kings 6:23 Also in the inner sanctuary he made two cherubim of olive wood, each ten cubits high.

2 Chronicles 3:11 The wingspan of the cherubim was twenty cubits; the wing of one, of five cubits, touched the wall of the house, and its other wing, of five cubits, touched the wing of the other cherub.

Commentary

Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Verses 10-17

Here is an account of 1. The two cherubim, which were set up in the holy of holies. There were two already over the ark, which covered the mercy-seat with their wings; these were small ones. Now that the most holy place was enlarged, though these were continued (being appurtenances to the ark, which was not to be made new, as all the other utensils of the tabernacle were), yet those two large ones were added, doubtless by divine appointment, to fill up the holy place, which otherwise would have looked bare, like a room unfurnished. These cherubim are said to be of image-work (v. 10), designed, it is likely, to represent the angels who attend the divine Majesty. Each wing extended five cubits, so that the whole was twenty cubits (v. 12, 13), which was just the breadth of the most holy place, v. 8. They stood on their feet, as servants, their faces inward toward the ark (v. 13), that it might appear they were not set there to be adored (for then they would have been made sitting, as on a throne, and their faces towards their worshippers), but rather as themselves attendants on the invisible God. We must not worship angels, but we must worship with angels; for we have come into communion with them (Heb. 12:22), and must do the will of God as the angels do it. The thought that we are worshipping him before whom the angels cover their faces will help to inspire us with reverence in all our approaches to God. Compare 1 Co. 11:10 with Isa. 6:2. 2. The veil that parted between the temple and the most holy place, v. 14. This denoted the darkness of that dispensation, and the distance which the worshippers were kept at; but, at the death of Christ, this veil was rent; for through him we are made nigh, and have boldness not only to look, but to enter, into the holiest. On this he was wrought cherubim. Heb. he caused them to ascend, that is, they were made in raised work, embossed. Or he made them on the wing in an ascending posture, as the other two that stood on their feet in an attending posture, to remind the worshippers to lift up their hearts, and to soar upwards in their devotions. 3. The two pillars which were set up before the temple. Both together were somewhat above thirty-five cubits in length (v. 15), about eighteen cubits high a-piece. See 1 Ki. 7:15, etc., where we took a view of those pillars, Jachin and Boaz, establishment and strength in temple-work and by it.

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