Exodus 25:17-22

17 a“You shall make a mercy seat
Or cover
of pure gold. Two cubits and a half shall be its length, and a cubit and a half its breadth.
18And you shall make two cherubim of gold; of chammered work shall you make them, on the two ends of the mercy seat. 19Make one cherub on the one end, and one cherub on the other end. dOf one piece with the mercy seat shall you make the cherubim on its two ends. 20 eThe cherubim shall spread out their wings above, overshadowing the mercy seat with their wings, their faces one to another; toward the mercy seat shall the faces of the cherubim be. 21And you shall put the mercy seat on the top of the ark, and in the ark you shall put the testimony that I shall give you. 22 fThere I will meet with you, and from above the mercy seat, from gbetween the two cherubim that are on the ark of the testimony, I will speak with you about all that I will give you in commandment for the people of Israel.

Exodus 37:6-9

6And he made a mercy seat of pure gold. Two cubits and a half was its length, and a cubit and a half its breadth. 7And he made two cherubim of gold. He made them of hammered work on the two ends of the mercy seat, 8one cherub on the one end, and one cherub on the other end. Of one piece with the mercy seat he made the cherubim on its two ends. 9The cherubim spread out their wings above, overshadowing the mercy seat with their wings, with their faces one to another; toward the mercy seat were the faces of the cherubim.

Leviticus 16:2

2and the Lord said to Moses, “Tell Aaron your brother not to hcome at any time into the Holy Place inside the veil, before the mercy seat that is on the ark, so that he may not die. For iI will appear in the cloud over the mercy seat.

Numbers 7:89

89And when Moses went into the tent of meeting jto speak with the Lord, he heard kthe voice speaking to him from above the mercy seat that was on the ark of the testimony, from between the two cherubim; and it spoke to him.

1 Samuel 4:4

4So the people sent to Shiloh and brought from there the ark of the covenant of the Lord of hosts, lwho is enthroned on the cherubim. And the two sons of Eli, Hophni and Phinehas, were there with the ark of the covenant of God.

1 Kings 8:6-7

6 mThen the priests brought the ark of the covenant of the Lord nto its place in othe inner sanctuary of the house, in the Most Holy Place, underneath the wings of the cherubim. 7For the cherubim spread out their wings over the place of the ark, so that the cherubim overshadowed the ark and its poles.

2 Kings 19:15

15And Hezekiah prayed before the Lord and said: “O Lord, the God of Israel, penthroned above the cherubim, qyou are the God, you alone, of all the kingdoms of the earth; you have made heaven and earth.
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