The wings of the cherubims were twenty cubits long Which was just the breadth of the most holy place. And they stood on their feet As servants, being designed, it seems, to represent the angels, those ministers of God who do his pleasure, Psalms 103:21, and who always attend the Divine Majesty. And their faces were inward Toward the ark, that it might appear they were not set there to be adored, for then they would have been formed as sitting on a throne, and their faces would have been toward their worshippers.
Related Commentaries of 2 Chronicles 3:11
2 Chronicles 3:11-13
11 And the wings of the cherubims were twenty cubits long: one wing of the one cherub was five cubits, reaching to the wall of the house: and the other wing was likewise five cubits, reaching to the wing of the other cherub.
12 And one wing of the other cherub was five cubits, reaching to the wall of the house: and the other wing was five cubits also, joining to the wing of the other cherub.
13 The wings of these cherubims spread themselves forth twenty cubits: and they stood on their feet, and their faces were inward.e