Yahweh’s glory went out from over the threshold of the house, and stood over the cherubim.
Parallel translations
- KJV Then the glory of the LORD departed from off the threshold of the house, and stood over the cherubims.
- BSB Then the glory of the LORD moved away from the threshold of the temple and stood above the cherubim.
- NKJV Then the glory of the Lord departed from the threshold of the temple and stood over the cherubim.
- NASB Then the glory of the Lord departed from the threshold of the temple and stood over the cherubim.
- NLT Then the glory of the Lord moved out from the entrance of the Temple and hovered above the cherubim.
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- Ps 18:10He rode on a cherub, and flew. Yes, he soared on the wings of the wind.
- Matt 23:37–39“Jerusalem, Jerusalem, who kills the prophets, and stones those who are sent to her! How often I would have gathered your children together, even as a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, and you would not!
- Ps 78:60–61So that he abandoned the tent of Shiloh, the tent which he placed among men;
- Gen 3:24So he drove out the man; and he placed cherubim at the east of the garden of Eden, and a flaming sword which turned every way, to guard the way to the tree of life.
- Jer 6:8Be instructed, Jerusalem, lest my soul be alienated from you; lest I make you a desolation, a land not inhabited.”
- Hos 9:12Though they bring up their children, yet I will bereave them, so that not a man shall be left. Indeed, woe also to them when I depart from them!
- Ezek 7:20–22As for the beauty of his ornament, he set it in majesty; but they made the images of their abominations and their detestable things therein. Therefore I have made it to them as an unclean thing.
- 2 Kgs 2:11As they continued on and talked, behold, a chariot of fire and horses of fire separated them, and Elijah went up by a whirlwind into heaven.
- Ps 68:17–18The chariots of God are tens of thousands and thousands of thousands. The Lord is among them, from Sinai, into the sanctuary.
- Jer 7:12–14“But go now to my place which was in Shiloh, where I caused my name to dwell at the first, and see what I did to it for the wickedness of my people Israel.
- Ezek 10:3–4Now the cherubim stood on the right side of the house, when the man went in; and the cloud filled the inner court.
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