Dictionaries :: Mercy-Seat

Easton's Bible Dictionary

Mercy-Seat:

(Heb. kapporeth, a "covering; " LXX. and N.T., hilasterion; Vulg., propitiatorium), the covering or lid of the ark of the covenant (q.v.). It was of acacia wood, overlaid with gold, or perhaps rather a plate of solid gold, 2 1/2 cubits long and 1 1/2 broad (Exd 25:17; 30:6; 31:7). It is compared to the throne of grace (Hbr 9:5; Eph 2:6). The holy of holies is called the "place of the mercy-seat" (1Ch 28:11: Lev. 16:2).

It has been conjectured that the censer (thumiaterion, meaning "anything having regard to or employed in the burning of incense") mentioned in Hbr 9:4 was the "mercy-seat," at which the incense was burned by the high priest on the great day of atonement, and upon or toward which the blood of the goat was sprinkled (Lev 16:11-16; Num 7:89 and Ex. 25:22).

Torrey's New Topical Textbook

Mercy-Seat: Moses Commanded to Make

Exd 25:17

Mercy-Seat: Bezaleel Given Wisdom to Make

Exd 31:2,3,7

Mercy-Seat: Made of Pure Gold

Exd 25:17; 37:6

Mercy-Seat: The Cherubim Formed Out Of, and at Each End of It

Exd 25:18-20; Hbr 9:5

Mercy-Seat: Placed upon the Ark of Testimony

Exd 25:21; 26:34; 40:20

Mercy-Seat: God

Appeared over in the cloud

Lev 16:2

Dwelt over

Psa 80:1

Spoke from above

Exd 25:22; Num 7:89

Mercy-Seat: Covered with a cloud of incense on the day of atonement

Lev 16:13

Mercy-Seat: The blood of sacrifices on the day of atonement sprinkled

Lev 16:14,15

Mercy-Seat: Illustrative Of

Christ

Rom 3:25; Hbr 9:3

The throne of grace

Hbr 4:16