Exodus 25:18

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Exodus 25:16–20 · Berean Standard Bible

16 And place inside the ark the Testimony, which I will give you.

17 And you are to construct a mercy seat of pure gold, two and a half cubits long and a cubit and a half wide.

18 Make two cherubim of hammered gold at the ends of the mercy seat,

19 one cherub on one end and one on the other, all made from one piece of gold.

20 And the cherubim are to have wings that spread upward, overshadowing the mercy seat. The cherubim are to face each other, looking toward the mercy seat.

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Exodus 37:7

He made two cherubim of hammered gold at the ends of the mercy seat,

Exodus 37:8

one cherub on one end and one on the other, all made from one piece of gold.

Exodus 37:9

And the cherubim had wings that spread upward, overshadowing the mercy seat. The cherubim faced each other, looking toward the mercy seat.

Genesis 3:24

So He drove out the man and stationed cherubim on the east side of the Garden of Eden, along with a whirling sword of flame to guard the way to the tree of life.

1 Samuel 4:4

So the people sent men to Shiloh, and they brought back the ark of the covenant of the LORD of Hosts, who sits enthroned between the cherubim. And the two sons of Eli, Hophni and Phinehas, were there with the ark of the covenant of God.

1 Kings 6:23

In the inner sanctuary he made two cherubim, each ten cubits high, out of olive wood.

1 Kings 6:24

One wing of the first cherub was five cubits long, and the other wing was five cubits long as well. So the full wingspan was ten cubits.

1 Kings 6:25

The second cherub also measured ten cubits; both cherubim had the same size and shape,

1 Kings 6:26

and the height of each cherub was ten cubits.

1 Kings 6:27

And he placed the cherubim inside the innermost room of the temple. Since their wings were spread out, the wing of the first cherub touched one wall, while the wing of the second cherub touched the other wall, and in the middle of the room their wingtips touched.

1 Kings 6:28

He also overlaid the cherubim with gold.

1 Kings 8:6

Then the priests brought the ark of the covenant of the LORD to its place in the inner sanctuary of the temple, the Most Holy Place, beneath the wings of the cherubim.

1 Kings 8:7

For the cherubim spread their wings over the place of the ark and overshadowed the ark and its poles.

1 Chronicles 28:18

the weight of the refined gold for the altar of incense; and the plans for the chariot of the gold cherubim that spread their wings and overshadowed the ark of the covenant of the LORD.

Ezekiel 10:2

And the LORD said to the man clothed in linen, “Go inside the wheelwork beneath the cherubim. Fill your hands with burning coals from among the cherubim and scatter them over the city.” And as I watched, he went in.

Ezekiel 10:20

These were the living creatures I had seen beneath the God of Israel by the River Kebar, and I knew that they were cherubim.

Ezekiel 41:18

were alternating carved cherubim and palm trees. Each cherub had two faces:

Ezekiel 41:19

the face of a man was toward the palm tree on one side, and the face of a young lion was toward the palm tree on the other side. They were carved all the way around the temple.

Hebrews 9:5

Above the ark were the cherubim of glory, overshadowing the mercy seat. But we cannot discuss these things in detail now.