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Exodus 37:9 KJV
Exodus · chapter 37 · verse 9
And 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.Exodus 37:9 · King James Version
Exodus 37:9 in context
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:
11And he overlaid it with pure gold, and made thereunto a crown of gold round about.
Commentary
Key words (Strong's)
- cherubimskᵉrûwba cherub or imaginary figureH3742 →
- coveredçâkakproperly, to entwine as ascreenH5526 →
- wingskânâphan edge or extremityH3671 →
- facespânîymthe faceH6440 →
- highmaʻalproperly, the upper part, used only adverbially with prefix upward, above, overhead, from…H4605 →
- seatkappôretha lidH3727 →
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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