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3. That provision was made for the carrying of this ark about with them in all their removals, which intimates to us that, wherever we go, we should take our religion along with us, always bearing about with us the love of the Lord Jesus, and his law.
12 And thou shalt cast four rings of gold for it, and put them in the four
corners thereof; and two rings shall be in the one side of it, and two rings in the other side of it.
13 And thou shalt make staves of shittim wood, and overlay them with
gold.
14 And thou shalt put the staves into the rings by the sides of the ark,
that the ark may be borne with them.
15 The staves shall be in the rings of the ark: they shall not be taken
from it.
16 And thou shalt put into the ark the testimony which I shall give
thee.
17 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.
The mercy-seat was the covering of the ark or chest, made of solid gold, exactly to fit the dimensions of the ark, Ex 25:17,21. This propitiatory covering, as it might well be translated, was a type of Christ, the great propitiation, whose satisfaction fully answers the demands of the law, covers our transgressions, and comes between us and the curse we deserve. Thus he is the end of the law for righteousness.
18 And thou shalt make two cherubim of gold, of beaten work shalt
thou make them, in the two ends of the mercy seat.
19 And make one cherub on the one end, and the other cherub on the
other end: even of the mercy seat shall ye make the cherubim on the two ends thereof.
20 And the cherubim shall stretch forth their wings on high, covering
the mercy seat with their wings, and their faces shall look one to another; toward the mercy seat shall the faces of the cherubim be.
21 And thou shalt put the mercy seat above upon the ark; and in the
ark thou shalt put the testimony that I shall give thee.