Exodus 25:18

Instructions For Making The Ark Of The Covenant

¹⁷ “You shall make a mercy seat (cover) of pure gold, two and a half cubits long and one and a half cubits wide. ¹⁸ You shall make two cherubim (winged angelic figures) of [solid] hammered gold at the two ends of the mercy seat. ¹⁹ Make one cherub at each end, making the cherubim of one piece with the mercy seat at its two ends.

Mercy Seat

Atonement Cover

Genesis 3:24

So God drove the man out; and at the east of the Garden of Eden He [permanently] stationed the cherubim and the sword with the flashing blade which turned round and round [in every direction] to protect and guard the way (entrance, access) to the tree of life.

Exodus 37:7-9

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

1 Samuel 4:4

So the people sent word to Shiloh, and from there they carried the ark of the covenant of the Lord of hosts who sits above the cherubim; and the two sons of Eli, Hophni and Phinehas, were with the ark of the covenant of God.

1 Kings 6:23-28

Within the Holy of Holies he made two cherubim (sculptured figures) of olive wood, each ten cubits high.

1 Kings 8:6-7

Then the priests brought the ark of the covenant of the Lord to its place, into the inner sanctuary of the house, into the Holy of Holies, under the wings of the cherubim.

1 Chronicles 28:18

and for the altar of incense refined gold by weight; and gold for the model of the chariot of the cherubim that spread their wings and covered the ark of the Lord’s covenant.

Ezekiel 10:2

And the Lord spoke to the man (seventh angel) clothed in linen and said, “Go between the whirling wheels under the cherubim; fill your hands with coals of fire from between the cherubim and scatter them over the city.” And he entered as I watched.

Ezekiel 10:20

These are the living beings that I saw beneath the God of Israel by the River Chebar; and I knew that they were cherubim.

Ezekiel 41:18-19

It was carved with [figures of] cherubim and palm trees; so that a palm decoration was between cherub and cherub, and every cherub had two faces,

Hebrews 9:5

and above the ark were the [golden] cherubim of glory overshadowing the mercy seat; but we cannot now go into detail about these things.