34And thou shalt put the mercy seat upon the ark of the testimony in the most holy place.
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
And he took and put the testimony into the ark, and set the staves on the ark, and put the mercy seat above upon the ark:
And thou shalt put the mercy seat above upon the ark; and in the ark thou shalt put the testimony that I shall give thee.
And over it the cherubims of glory shadowing the mercyseat; of which we cannot now speak particularly.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 31-37)Two veils are here ordered to be made, 1. One for a partition between the holy place and the most holy, which not only forbade any to enter, but forbade them so much as to look into the holiest of all, Exod. 26:31 , 33 . Under that dispensation, divine grace was veiled, but now we behold it with open face, 2 Cor. 3:18. The apostle tells us ( Heb. 9:8 , 9 ) what was the meaning of this veil; it int…
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