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Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Exodus 25:20

The cherubims shall stretch forth their wings on high. — The two wings of both cherubs were to be elevated and advanced so as to overshadow the mercy seat, and, as it were, protect it. In the Egyptian figures of Ma, one wing only has this position, the other being depressed and falling behind the figure.

Towards the mercy seat. — Bent downwards, i.e., as though gazing on the mercy seat. (Compare Exodus 37:9).

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See also Exodus 25:20 in other biblical comments:

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    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;...

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

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  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

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  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

    TOWARD. Looking toward the blood of propitiation. Compare Exodus 12:13 and Joshua 2:18. See especially Exodus 37:9....

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    _shall spread out_ Heb. _shall be spreading out_, describing their permanent condition: the idiom, as Genesis 1:6, and frequently. _with their faces_, &c. These cherubim, unlike those of Ezek. (see ab...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

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  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    The mercy-seat and the two cherubim upon it....

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

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  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

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  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

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  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

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  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

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  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    וְ הָי֣וּ הַ כְּרֻבִים֩ פֹּרְשֵׂ֨י כְנָפַ֜יִם...

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

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  • Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

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  • G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

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  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

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  • Introductory Lectures - Commentary by William Kelly

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  • John Darby's Synopsis

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  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

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  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    And the cherubims shall stretch forth [their] wings on high, covering the mercy seat with their wings, and their faces [shall look] one to another; toward the mercy seat shall the faces of the cherubi...

  • Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

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  • KJV Original Language Details

    [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...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

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  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

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  • Lange's Commentary on the Holy Scriptures

    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...

  • Lange's Commentary on the Holy Scriptures

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  • Leslie M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

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  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    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...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    Towards God, who is supposed to sit there, whose face the angels in heaven always behold, and upon whom their eyes are fixed to observe and receive his commands; and towards Christ, the true propitiat...

  • Notes on the Pentateuch by Charles Henry Mackintosh

    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...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Exodus 25:20 cherubim H3742 out H6566 (H8802) wings H3671 above H4605 covering H5526 (H8802) seat H3727 wings...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    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...

  • Spurgeon's Bible Commentary

    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...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

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  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

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  • The Biblical Illustrator

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  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

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  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

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  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

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  • The Pulpit Commentaries

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  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

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  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

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  • Wells of Living Water Commentary

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