From the ark - Or, according to a different reading here and according to 1 Kings 8:8, some read, the ends of the poles were…

And they drew out ... were seen: Rather, And the staves were so long that the tips of the staves were seen, etc.

(See Gill on 2 Chronicles 5:1).

The ark was a type of Christ, and, as such, a token of the presence of God. That gracious promise, Lo, I am with you alway, even unto the end o…