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…

Of the mercy seat you shall make the cherubims. —The meaning seems to be that the cherubim were not to be detached images, made separately…

They were part and parcel of the mercy-seat; they were made of the same precious metal, and all formed one piece. They may represent the angels, wh…

And make one cherub on the one end, and the other cherub on
the other end
The situati…

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…