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God's Appointed Meeting Place
The space above the mercy seat and between the cherubim was uniquely designated as the place of God's manifest presence, what scholars call the 'Shechinah.' This was where God promised to meet with and speak to His people through their representative, making the entire Tabernacle the 'Tent of Meeting.'
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Exodus
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Albert Barnes
On Exodus 25:17–22
18th Century
Theologian
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…
Charles Ellicott
On Exodus 25:22
19th Century
Bishop
There will I meet with you.—The place of the Shechinah, or visible manifestation of God’s presence, was to be between the…
Charles Spurgeon
On Exodus 25:21–22
19th Century
Preacher
It was the meeting place of God and people, where the law was covered with a solid plate of gold, so is Jesus the meeting place between God and sin…
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John Gill
On Exodus 25:22
17th Century
Pastor
And there I will meet with you
With Moses, and so with the high priest in later times, when he should enter into the…
Matthew Henry
On Exodus 25:10–22
17th Century
Minister
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…