2 Chronicles 3:13
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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Barnes' Notes
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…
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…
Academic commentary, 1882–1921
Cambridge Bible
twenty cubits Extending across the width of the whole house.
on their feet Not "couchant" nor "rampant" but standing as the winged bulls of Assyria stand.
inward R.V. towards the house, as though to…