Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Exodus 25:19
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 cherubims on the two ends thereof.
19. of one piece with ] Heb. out of: the same idiom, vv. 31, 35, Exo 27:2, Exo 28:8, Exo 30:2. The meaning is, the cherubim were not to be removable, they were to be so securely soldered to the mercy-seat as to form a whole with it.
Fuente: The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges
i.e. Of one and the same piece of massy gold, out of which the cherubims were made.
Fuente: English Annotations on the Holy Bible by Matthew Poole
And make one cherub on the one end, and the other cherub on the other end,…. The situation of the cherubim is particularly explained, lest, as Jarchi observes, it should be thought that there were two at both ends of the mercy seat; whereas there were only one at one end, and another at the other, opposite to each other, and both pointing to the mercy seat; which may express the situation and office of the ministers of the word under each dispensation, who are so placed as to derive all their gifts and graces from Christ, and to point him out unto the sons of men as the only way of salvation, the only propitiation for sin, and through whom alone grace and mercy are to be had:
even of the mercy seat shall ye make the cherubim on the two ends thereof; this is not so much intended the more to inculcate and confirm the situation of the cherubim, as more fully to explain the matter of which they were made; for it was “of” or out of the mercy seat that they were made, at the two ends of it; that is, they were made not only of the same kind of metal with that, but out of the same mass or lump of gold that was; a lid of gold being made commensurate to the ark, what remained above that measure, at the ends of it, were beaten and formed into two cherubim.
Fuente: John Gill’s Exposition of the Entire Bible
“Out of the capporeth shall ye make the cherubs at its two ends,” i.e., so as to form one whole with the capporeth itself, and be inseparable from it.
Fuente: Keil & Delitzsch Commentary on the Old Testament
(19) Of the mercy seat shall ye make the cherubims.The meaning seems to be that the cherubims were not to be detached images, made separately, and then fastened to the mercy seat, but to be formed out of the same mass of gold with the mercy seat, and so to be part and parcel of it.
Fuente: Ellicott’s Commentary for English Readers (Old and New Testaments)
Exo 25:19 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 cherubims on the two ends thereof.
Ver. 19. Even of the mercy seat. ] Of the matter of it: to show that the very angels have their establishment in and by Christ: and that, if they need mercy, how much more do we. Angels also are under Christ as a head of government, of influence, of confirmation, though not of redemption.
Fuente: John Trapp’s Complete Commentary (Old and New Testaments)
even of = out of.
ye. Some codices, Hillel, Samaritan Pentateuch, Septuagint, and Syriac, read “thou”.
Fuente: Companion Bible Notes, Appendices and Graphics
of the: or, of the matter of the
Reciprocal: 2Sa 22:11 – a cherub