Commentaries:
Barnes' Notes
Two cherubims - The pattern of the tabernacle was followed (marginal reference), but without servile imitation. The original cherubs were entirely of gold. These, being so much larger, were of wood, merely overlaid with a golden plating. The arrangement of the wings, and the direction of the faces, seem also to have been different. Moses' cherubim "covered with their wings over the mercy seat;" Solomon' s stretched out theirs to the full I Kings 6:27, so that the four wings, each five cubits long I Kings 6:24, extended across the whole sanctuary, the width of which was twenty cubits I Kings 6:20. The former looked toward one another, and were bent downward toward the mercy-seat; the latter looked outward, toward the great chamber. (See II Chronicles 3:13, and note.)
Of olive-tree - The oleaster or wild olive, not the cultivated species.
Other commentary entries containing this verse:
2 Kings 19:15
Psalms 18:10
Psalms 28:2
Hebrews 9:5
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