18And thou shalt make two cherubims of gold, of beaten work shalt thou make them, in the two ends of the mercy seat.
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
And over it the cherubims of glory shadowing the mercyseat; of which we cannot now speak particularly.
This is the living creature that I saw under the God of Israel by the river of Chebar; and I knew that they were the cherubims.
And 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.
And he spake unto the man clothed with linen, and said, Go in between the wheels, even under the cherub, and fill thine hand with coals of fire from between the cherubims, and scatter them over the city. And he went in in my sight.
And the priests brought in the ark of the covenant of the LORD unto his place, into the oracle of the house, to the most holy place, even under the wings of the cherubims. …
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 10-22)The first thing which is here ordered to be made is the ark with its appurtenances, the furniture of the most holy place, and the special token of God’s presence, for which the tabernacle was erected to be the receptacle. I. The ark itself was a chest, or coffer, in which the two tables of the law, written with the finger of God, were to be honourably deposited, and carefully kept. The dimensions…
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