A mercy seat of pure gold – (Exodus 25:18–20). In external form, the mercy seat was a plate of gold with the cherubim standing o…

THE MERCY SEAT.

A mercy seat. —Those critics to whom the idea of expiation is unsatisfactory, as Knobel and…

It fitted exactly on the top of the ark, and so completely covered whatever was put within. It was made of pure gold. This, perhaps, was the most i…

And you shall make a mercy-seat. The primary root of the verb כפר, caphar, from which this noun is derived,¹²⁸ is used…

And you shall make a mercy seat of pure gold
Or "covering" ^F14 ; so Jarchi and Aben Ezra; for so the word properly …

The ark was a chest, overlaid with gold, in which the two tables of the law were to be kept. These tables are called the testimony; God in them tes…