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 Exodus 37:9, these of Solomon looked out from the sanctuary into the great chamber (“the house”). The cherubim thus stood upright on either side of the ark, like two sentinels guarding it.
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2 Chronicles 3:13
13 The wings of these cherubims spread themselves forth twenty cubits: and they stood on their feet, and their faces were inward.e