18And for the altar of incense refined gold by weight; and gold for the pattern of the chariot of the cherubims, that spread out their wings, and covered the ark of the covenant of the LORD.
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
And thou shalt make two cherubims of gold, of beaten work shalt thou make them, in the two ends of the mercy seat. …
And thou shalt make an altar to burn incense upon: of shittim wood shalt thou make it. …
And over it the cherubims of glory shadowing the mercyseat; of which we cannot now speak particularly.
To the chief Musician upon Shoshannimeduth, A Psalm of Asaph. Give ear, O Shepherd of Israel, thou that leadest Joseph like a flock; thou that dwellest between the cherubims, shine forth.
The LORD reigneth; let the people tremble: he sitteth between the cherubims; let the earth be moved.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 11-21)As for the general charge that David gave his son to seek God and serve him, the book of the law was, in that, his only rule, and there needed no other; but, in building the temple, David was now to give him three things:—1. A model of the building, because it was to be such a building as neither he nor his architects ever saw. Moses had a pattern of the tabernacle shown him in the mount (Heb. 8:5…
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