2 Chronicles 3:13 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Bible Comments

Heb. Towards the house, or rather, that house; not the holy house, as divers understand it; for then their backs must have been turned towards the ark, which was indecent, and directly contrary to the posture of Moses's cherubims, which looked towards it; but the most holy house, which was last named, 1 Chronicles 3:8, and of which he continues yet to speak; this posture being most agreeable to their use, which was with their wings to close in the ark and cover it, as it is expressly affirmed below, 1 Chronicles 5:8.

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