35The ark of the testimony, and the staves thereof, and the mercy seat,
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And thou shalt make a mercy seat of pure gold: two cubits and a half shall be the length thereof, and a cubit and a half the breadth thereof.
The Holy Ghost this signifying, that the way into the holiest of all was not yet made manifest, while as the first tabernacle was yet standing:
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. 32-43)Observe here, I. The builders of the tabernacle made very good despatch. It was not much more than five months from the beginning to the finishing of it. Though there was a great deal of fine work about it, such as is usually the work of time, embroidering and engraving, not only in gold, but in precious stones, yet they went through with it in a little time. Church-work is usually slow work, but…
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