1 Kings 8:8
King James Version
“And they drew out the staves, that the ends of the staves were seen out in the holy before the oracle, and they were not seen without: and there they are unto this day.”
Context
5And king Solomon, and all the congregation of Israel, that assembled unto him, were with him before the ark, sacrificing sheep and oxen, that could not be told nor numbered for multitude.
6And the priests brought in the ark of the covenant of the LORD unto his place, into the oracle of the house, to the most holy under the wings of the cherubims.
7For the cherubims spread forth two wings over the place of the ark, and the cherubims covered the ark and the staves thereof above.
8And they drew out the staves, that the ends of the staves were seen out in the holy before the oracle, and they were not seen without: and there they are unto this day.
9nothing in the ark save the two tables of stone, which Moses put there at Horeb, when the LORD made with the children of Israel, when they came out of the land of Egypt.
10And it came to pass, when the priests were come out of the holy that the cloud filled the house of the LORD,
11So that the priests could not stand to minister because of the cloud: for the glory of the LORD had filled the house of the LORD.