7And he made two cherubims of gold, beaten out of one piece made he them, on the two ends of the mercy seat;
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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.
And within the oracle he made two cherubims of olive tree, each ten cubits high. …
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.
Who maketh his angels spirits; his ministers a flaming fire:
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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-9)I. It may be thought strange that Moses, when he had recorded so fully the instructions given him upon the mount for the making of all these things, should here record as particularly the making of them, when it might have sufficed only to have said, in a few words, that each of these things was made exactly according to the directions before recited. We are sure that Moses, when he wrote by divin…
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