2 Chronicles 3:11
And the wings of the cherubims were twenty cubits long: one wing of the one cherub was five cubits, reaching to the wall of the house: and the other wing was likewise five cubits, reaching to the wing of the other cherub. And the wings of the cherubims were twenty cubits long: one wing of the one cherub was five cubits, reaching to the wall of the house: and the other wing was likewise five cubits, reaching to the wing of the other cherub.
2 Chronicles 3:11 belongs to the account of the construction of Solomon's temple, a permanent and immovable sanctuary built on the same general plan as the tabernacle but on a larger, grander, and more magnificent scale. Like the tabernacle, the temple had two holy places, corresponding to its two apartments. Its sacred vessels were of the same kinds as those of the tabernacle, and its ministration was the same.
The verse describes the two gigantic cherubim set in the most holy place beside the spot where the ark was to rest, each figure ten cubits high, made of olive wood and overlaid with gold, while the walls of the house were carved with figures of cherubim. Together their wings spanned twenty cubits, each wing being five cubits long, with the outer wing of each cherub reaching to the wall of the house and the other wing reaching to the wing of the other cherub, so that the wings met in the middle of the house. These winged figures represent angelic beings, and their wings show that angels have wings.
The temple was built after a divinely revealed pattern, and its two-part design forms a pattern of the heavenly temple, giving evidence that the heavenly sanctuary also has two holy places. The entire temple building, not only its innermost room, was a pattern of the heavenly sanctuary.