And thou shalt make a mercy-seat, a lid, or covering, of the ark, of pure gold; two cubits and a half shall be the length thereof, and a cubit and a half the breadth thereof. This mercy seat, or lid of expiation, received its name from the fact that the guilt of the people, by virtue of the blood sprinkled against it on the great Day of Atonement, was expiated, their sin was covered.
Verse Exodus 25:17. _A MERCY-SEAT_] כפרת_ _capporeth, from כפר _caphar,_ to _cover_ or _overspread_; because by an act of pardon sins are represented as being _covered_, so that they no longer appear...
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...
MERCY SEAT. propitiatory cover (Hebrew. _kapporeth_. cover). By Figure of speech _Metonymy_ (App-6) _cover_ put for the propitiation made through the blood sprinkled thereon. It therefore denotes prop...
_a mercy-seat_ or, if the word could be revived, _a_ PROPITIATORY. This was a slab of gold, of the same length and breadth as the ark, and laid upon its top. The term _mercy-seat_was used first by Tin...
The mercy-seat and the two cherubim upon it....
THEY SHALL MAKE AN ARK OF SHITTIM-WOOD— The furniture of the most sacred part of the tabernacle, the _Holy of holies,_ the immediate residence of the Divinity, is first appointed. Of this, the _ark_ o...
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 A MERCY SEAT OF PURE GOLD: TWO CUBITS AND A HALF SHALL BE THE LENGTH THEREOF, AND A CUBIT AND A HALF THE BREADTH THEREOF._ Mercyseat - х_ KAPORET_ (H3727); Septuagint, _ HILASTEE...
25:17 mercy-seat (i-6) The lid or cover of the chest. The word is derived from the Hebrew word 'to cover.'...
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...
MERCY SEAT] RM 'covering.' This is not to be regarded as a mere lid or covering of the ark, but has an independent significance. It is the golden throne of God where the people's sins are 'covered,' i...
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...
THE MERCY SEAT. (17) A MERCY SEAT. — Those critics to whom the idea of expiation is unsatisfactory, as Knobel and Gesenius, render _kapporeth,_ the word here used, by _“_lid” or “cover.” _Kaphar,_ it...
וְ עָשִׂ֥יתָ כַפֹּ֖רֶת זָהָ֣ב טָהֹ֑ור אַמָּתַ֤יִם...
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...
And thou shalt make a (g) mercy seat [of] pure gold: two cubits and a half [shall be] the length thereof, and a cubit and a half the breadth thereof. (g) There God appeared mercifully to them: and th...
A propitiatory: a covering for the ark; called a propitiatory, or mercy-seat, because the Lord, who was supposed to sit there upon the wings of the cherubims, with the ark for his footstool, from then...
The mercy-seat hath been always considered as among the dearest types of Christ, Romans 3:25; 1 John 2:2. Hence Paul's advice, Hebrews 4:16....
"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...
17_And thou shalt make a mercy-seat. _The primary root of the verb כפר, _caphar, _from whence this noun is derived, (128) is used for “to smear with pitch,” but in the Hiphil conjugation, it signifies...
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 SHALL MAKE A MERCY SEAT OF PURE GOLD,.... Or "covering" n; so Jarchi and Aben Ezra; for so the word properly signifies; and what is meant was no more than a cover of the ark, which was open a...
And thou shalt make a mercy seat [of] pure gold: two cubits and a half [shall be] the length thereof, and a cubit and a half the breadth thereof. Ver. 17. _A mercy seat._] Heb., A covering; or coveri...
The _mercy-seat_ was the covering of the ark, made exactly to fit the dimensions of it. This _propitiatory covering_, as it might well be translated, was a type of Christ the _great propitiation_, who...
[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...
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...
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...
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...
MERCY-SEAT, or, _propitiatory_; which seems from the sameness of dimensions to be nothing else but the covering of the ark, upon which God is said to sit, whence the ark is called God's footstool. Thi...
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 25:17 make H6213 (H8804) seat H3727 pure H2889 gold H2091 half H2677 cubits H520 length H753 cubit...
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...
MERCY See "Propitiation." (_ See Scofield) - (Romans 3:25). _...
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 25:17 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...
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 25:1 Instructions for the Tabernacle. The instructions for the tabernacle (Exodus 25:1) and the description of those instructions being carried out ...
_MAIN HOMILETICS OF THE PARAGRAPH.— Exodus 25:10_ THE LAW OF GOD The ark of the covenant, containing the two tables of the testimony, was itself a symbol of its contents. It symbolised— I. THE GRACI...
_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...
mercy seat Exodus 26:34 Exodus 37:6 Exodus 40:20 Leviticus 16:12...
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 mercy — seat was the covering of the ark, made exactly to fit the dimensions of it. This propitiatory covering, as it might well be translated, was a type of Christ the great propitiation, whose s...