None of the scriptures you quote show people bowing to the Ark and therefore before the cherubim on the Ark.
I’d also like to point out the pictorial representation is inaccurate, at least for the period after the Temple was built.
Only the High Priest ever entered the Most Holy, where the Ark was kept, and then only once a year. You would never have seen two priests together before the Ark.
On a side note, one would think the Most Holy would get awfully dusty.