Kretzmann's Popular Commentary
Exodus 25:18
And thou shalt make two cherubim of gold, of beaten work shalt thou make them, enchased and rounded with a hammer, the figures thus being not massive. but hollow, in the two ends of the mercy seat.
And thou shalt make two cherubim of gold, of beaten work shalt thou make them, enchased and rounded with a hammer, the figures thus being not massive. but hollow, in the two ends of the mercy seat.
Verse Exodus 25:18. _THOU SHALT MAKE TWO CHERUBIMS_] What these were we cannot distinctly say. It is generally supposed that a cherub was a creature with four heads and one body: and the animals, of...
A MERCY SEAT OF PURE GOLD - (Compare Exodus 37:6.) In external form, the mercy-seat was a plate of gold with the cherubim standing on it, the whole beaten out of one solid piece of metal Exodus 37:7;...
3. THE TABERNACLE AND THE PRIESTHOOD CHAPTER 25 The Tabernacle _ 1. The freewill offering and the materials (Exodus 25:1)_ 2. The ark (Exodus 25:10) 3. The table of showbread (Exodus 25:23) 4.
EXODUS 25:10 P. THE ARK (_cf._ Exodus 37:1). Three stages of tradition may be distinguished with regard to the Ark (pp. 105f., 123f.): (_a)_ In JE, and in the earlier historical books, it is the visib...
CHERUBIMS. Plural of Hebrew cherub. Figure of speech _Metonymy_ here put for _representation_ of the celestial beings, of which we know nothing. They are. reality, there, and representative of creatio...
The _cherubim_. The cherubim were composite emblematic figures, always implying the _nearness of the deity_, and appearing distinctively in the OT. (1) as bearers of the deity, (2) as guardians of a s...
The mercy-seat and the two cherubim upon it....
_of beaten work_ like the lampstand (_v._31), and the two silver trumpets (Numbers 10:2). RVm. is not probable. LXX. here τορευτὸς (in Nu. ἐλατός), Vulg. _ductilis, perductilis_, i.e. _drawn_or _beate...
THOU SHALT MAKE TWO CHERUBIMS OF GOLD— These cherubims were to be made of _gold, of the matter of the mercy-seat,_ Exodus 25:19. (margin of our Bibles) which seems to specify only that they were to be...
THE TEXT OF EXODUS TRANSLATION 25 AND JE-HO-VAH SPAKE UNTO MO-SES, SAYING, (2) SPEAK UNTO THE CHILDREN OF IS-RA-EL, THAT THEY TAKE FOR ME AN OFFERING: OF EVERY MAN WHOSE HEART MAKETH HIM WILLING YE SH...
_AND THOU SHALT MAKE TWO CHERUBIMS OF GOLD, OF BEATEN WORK SHALT THOU MAKE THEM, IN THE TWO ENDS OF THE MERCY SEAT._ Two cherubim. The real meaning of these figures, as well as the form of them, is n...
THE VESSELS OF THE SANCTUARY Chapter s 25-31 are taken up with prescriptions regarding the Construction of a Tabernacle, i.e. a tent, to form the visible dwelling-place of Jehovah in the midst of His...
TWO CHERUBIMS] 'Cherubim' is the Heb. plural of 'cherub.' The exact form of these cherubim is doubtful. Some suppose they were winged bulls such as are represented on Assyrian monuments as guardian sp...
EXODUS: *ISRAEL BECOMES A NATION GOD’S INSTRUCTIONS TO MOSES EXODUS CHAPTER S 19 TO 40 _HILDA BRIGHT AND KITTY PRIDE_ CHAPTER 25 Chapter s 25:1 – 31:17 contain details about how the *Israelites...
TWO CHERUBIMS. — “Cherubims,” or rather _cherubim,_ had been known previously in one connection only — they had been the guardians of Eden when Adam and Eve were driven forth from it (Genesis 3:24). I...
וְ עָשִׂ֛יתָ שְׁנַ֥יִם כְּרֻבִ֖ים זָהָ֑ב מִקְשָׁה֙...
CHAPTER XXV. _ THE SHRINE AND ITS FURNITURE._ Exodus 25:1 The first direction given to Moses on the mountain is to prepare for the making of a tabernacle wherein God may dwell with man. For this he...
THE ARK AND THE MERCY-SEAT Exodus 25:10 The Tabernacle was full of symbolical teaching of which the full meaning is unfolded in the Epistle to the Hebrews, where we are distinctly told that the Holy...
Here we begin consideration of the transactions of the forty days. Moses received instruction concerning a place of worship for the nation. It is important that we attempt to understand what this mean...
CHAPTER XXV. Cherubims, symbolic figures, which Moses does not perfectly describe, and therefore we cannot pretend to know their exact form. Some represent them as young men, with their wings joined...
Perhaps these Cherubims were designed to represent Angels, as prying into the precious mysteries of redemption 1 Peter 1:12; Hebrews 1:14. Some have thought that the Cherubims mean to represent minist...
"In the third month, when the children of Israel were gone forth out of the land of Egypt, the same day came they into the wilderness of Sinai." Up to this point all the dealings of God have been the...
18_And thou shalt make two cherubims. _I have stated in my commentary on Genesis and elsewhere, (130) that there are various opinions respecting the word cherub; but that those approach most nearly to...
THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 24 AND 25. This covenant, made on condition of the obedience of the people, was confirmed by blood [1] (chap. 24.) The blood being shed, death having thus co...
AND THOU SHALT MAKE TWO CHERUBIM OF GOLD,.... Which some take to be in the form of birds, and others of winged animals, such as the like were never seen, so Josephus; the Jews commonly suppose they we...
And thou shalt make two cherubims [of] gold, [of] beaten work shalt thou make them, in the two ends of the mercy seat. Ver. 18. _And thou shalt make two cherubims._] Golden winged images, made by God...
The _cherubim_ (_cherubim_ is the plural of _cherub_, not _cherubims_) were fixed to the mercy-seat, and of a piece with it, and spread their wings over it. It is supposed these were designed to repre...
[FREE OFFERINGS.] 1 What the Israelites must offer for the making of the Tabernacle. 10 The forme of the Arke. 17 The Mercy-seat, with the Cherubims. 23 The table, with the furniture thereof. 31...
H. THE VISION OR THE IDEAL OF THE TABERNACLE. THE ORDERING OF THE ARK AND OF THE HOUSE OF THE COVENANT; OF THE LIVING PRESENCE OF THE LAW AND OF THE DWELLING-PLACE OF THE LAW-GIVER Exodus 25-31 I. C...
I. Prerequisites: the materials; the assessments. Exodus 25:1-9 As the real temple of God must consist in believing hearts which offer themselves and build themselves into a temple of the Spirit of Go...
WILLING OFFERINGS FOR GOD'S SANCTUARY (vs.1-9) The law has been declared to Israel, with its stern ordinances and regulations. Now the Lord instructs Moses in a matter that is in striking contrast t...
10-22 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 testified his will. This law was a testimony to t...
Figures of human shape, in which alone the angels used to appear; but they had wings, to signify their expedition in God's work and messages. And between these angels God is said to sit and dwell. So...
This chapter forms the commencement of one of the richest veins in Inspiration's exhaustless mine a vein in which every stroke of the mattock brings to light untold wealth. We know the mattock with wh...
Exodus 25:18 make H6213 (H8804) two H8147 cherubim H3742 gold H2091 work H4749 make H6213 (H8799) two...
THE PURPOSE OF THE ARK (EXODUS 25:15). a Into the Ark was to be put the Testimony which Yahweh will give them (Exodus 25:15). b A mercy-seat or place of propitiation was to be made to cover the Ark...
Exodus 25:10. _And they shall make an ark of shittim wood: two cubits and a half shall be the length thereof, and a cubit and a half the breadth thereof, and a cubit and a half the height thereof. And...
CONTENTS: Moses in the mount; first directions concerning the tabernacle. CHARACTERS: God, Moses. CONCLUSION: The only way for God and man to meet is in the precise way and place which He has appoint...
Exodus 25:2. _That they bring me an offering._ We now enter on the tabernacle, a hallowed work, a figure of the church, and emblem of the heavenly glory. This mystical temple was not new: it had exist...
_Put the mercy-seat above upon the ark._ THE ARK AND THE MERCY SEAT It was a leading and distinctive feature of Jewish worship that no image was to represent Jehovah, and yet the Jews were taught th...
EXODUS—NOTE ON EXODUS 25:10 The ARK (see Exodus 37:1) is God’s throne, from where he will meet and speak with Moses ...
EXODUS—NOTE ON EXODUS 25:17 The noun translated MERCY SEAT may be related to the verb meaning “to make atonement.” Some Bible versions translate it as “atonement cover.” Cherubim are the traditional g...
_MAIN HOMILETICS OF THE PARAGRAPH.— Exodus 25:17_ THE MERCY-SEAT The Lord Jesus Christ is the true mercy-seat; the piece of temple furniture in the text is the shadow of which Christ is the substanc...
EXPOSITION THE PATTERN OF THE ARK.—Moses is first shown, not the pattern of the tabernacle, but the patterns of those things which it was to contain—the ark, the table of shew-bread, and the seven-br...
Now it is interesting as God gives to him the design, He starts not with the tabernacle itself but with the furnishings within the tabernacle. So in chapter twenty-five, we begin with the materials th...
two cherubims of gold Exodus 37:7 Genesis 3:24 1 Samuel 4:4 1 Kings 6:23 1 Kings
SEEING CHRIST IN THE ARK OF THE COVENANT Exodus 25:10 INTRODUCTORY WORDS After God had given commandment unto Moses to build the Tabernacle according to the pattern, which He had shown unto him; He...
The cherubim (Cherubim is the plural of Cherub, not Cherubims) were fixed to the mercy — seat, and of a piece with it, and spread their wings over it. It is supposed these were designed to represent t...
FF— If it is wrong to make graven images, why did God command Moses to make one? PROBLEM: God clearly commanded in Exodus 20:4 : “You shall not make for yourself any carved image, or any likeness of a...