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Exodus 37:8 KJV
Exodus · chapter 37 · verse 8
One cherub on the end on this side, and another cherub on the other end on that side: out of the mercy seat made he the cherubims on the two ends thereof.Exodus 37:8 · King James Version
Exodus 37:8 in context
6And he made the mercy seat of pure gold: two cubits and a half was the length thereof, and one cubit and a half the breadth thereof.
7And he made two cherubims of gold, beaten out of one piece made he them, on the two ends of the mercy seat;
8One cherub on the end on this side, and another cherub on the other end on that side: out of the mercy seat made he the cherubims on the two ends thereof.
9And the cherubims spread out their wings on high, and covered with their wings over the mercy seat, with their faces one to another; even to the mercy seatward were the faces of the cherubims.
10And he made the table of shittim wood: two cubits was the length thereof, and a cubit the breadth thereof, and a cubit and a half the height thereof:
Commentary
Key words (Strong's)
- cherubkᵉrûwba cherub or imaginary figureH3742 →
- seatkappôretha lidH3727 →
- madeʻâsâhto do or make, in the broadest sense and widest applicationH6213 →
- endqâtsâha terminationH7098 →
- twoshᵉnayimtwoH8147 →
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I. It may be thought strange that Moses, when he had recorded so fully the instructions given him upon the mount for the making of all these things, should here record as particularly the making of them, when it might have sufficed only to have said, in a few words, that each of these things was made exactly according…
— Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on verses 1-9