8:7a For the cherubim spread their wings over the place of the ark

So the wings of the cherubim were spread over the place where the box was.
-or-
So the wings of these statues/creatures extended over/above that place,

8:7b and overshadowed the ark and its poles.

They covered the box and its poles.
-or-
covering both the chest and the poles on it.

8:7a-b (reordered)

So the box/chest and its carrying poles were completely under their wings.

© 2020 by SIL International®
Made available under the terms of a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License (CC BY-SA) creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0.
All Scripture quotations in this publication, unless otherwise indicated, are from The Holy Bible, Berean Standard Bible.
BSB is produced in cooperation with Bible Hub, Discovery Bible, OpenBible.com, and the Berean Bible Translation Committee.