Dictionaries :: Cherubim

Nave's Topical Bible

Cherubim: Eastward of the Garden of Eden

Gen 3:24

Cherubim: In the Tabernacle

Exd 25:18-20; 37:7-9

Cherubim: The Ark of the Covenant Rested beneath the Wings Of

1Ki 8:6, 7; 2Ch 5:7, 8; Hbr 9:5

Cherubim: Figures Of, Embroidered

On the walls of the tabernacle,

Exd 26:1; 36:8;

and on the curtain,

Exd 26:31; 36:35.

Cherubim: In the Temple

1Ki 6:23-29; 2Ch 3:10-13

Cherubim: Figures Of

On the curtain,

2Ch 3:14.

on the walls,

1Ki 6:29-35; 2Ch 3:7;

on the lavers,

1Ki 7:29, 36.

Cherubim: In Ezekiel's Vision of the Temple

Eze 41:18-20, 25

Cherubim: Figurative

Eze 28:14, 16

Cherubim: Symbolical

Eze 1; 10

Torrey's New Topical Textbook

Cherubim: Form and Appearance Of

Eze 1:5-11,13,14

Cherubim: Animated by the Spirit of God

Eze 1:12,20

Cherubim: Engaged in Accomplishing the Purposes of God

Eze 1:15,21; 10:9-11,16,17

Cherubim: The Glory of God Exhibited Upon

Eze 1:22,26-28; 10:4,18,20

Cherubim: Sound of Their Wings Was as the Voice of God

Eze 1:24; 10:5

Cherubim: Placed at the Entrance of Eden

Gen 3:24

Cherubim: Of Gold

Formed out of, and at each end of the mercy seat

Exd 25:18-20

Placed over the ark of the covenant

1Sa 4:4; 1Ki 8:6,7; 2Ch 5:7,8

God's presence manifested between

2Sa 6:2; 2Ki 19:15; Psa 80:1; 99:1

The oracles or answers of God delivered from between

Exd 25:22; Num 7:89

Cherubim: Called the Cherubim of Glory

Hbr 9:5

Cherubim: Representations Of, Made on The

Curtains of the tabernacle

Exd 26:1,31

Vail of the tabernacle

Exd 26:31

Vail of the temple

2Ch 3:14

Doors of the temple

1Ki 6:32,35

Walls of the temple

2Ch 3:7

Bases of brazen lavers

1Ki 7:29,36

Cherubim: Riding on, illustrative of majesty and power of God

2Sa 22:11; Psa 18:10

Vine's Expository Dictionary of New Testament Words

Cherubim:

are regarded by some as the ideal representatives of redeemed animate creation. In the Tabernacle and Temple they were represented by the two golden figures of two-winged living creatures. They were all of one piece with the golden lid of the Ark of the Covenant in the Holy of Holies, signifying that the prospect of redeemed and glorified creatures was bound up with the sacrifice of Christ.

This in itself would indicate that they represent redeemed human beings in union with Christ, a union seen, figuratively, proceeding out of the Mercy Seat. Their faces were towards this Mercy Seat, suggesting a consciousness of the means whereby union with Christ has been produced.

The first reference to the "cherubim" is in Gen 3:24, which should read "... at the East of the Garden of Eden He caused to dwell in a tabernacle the cherubim, and the flaming sword which turned itself to keep the way of the Tree of Life." This was not simply to keep fallen human beings out; the presence of the "cherubim" suggests that redeemed men, restored to God on God's conditions, would have access to the Tree of Life. (See Rev 22:14).

Certain other references in the OT give clear indication that angelic beings are upon occasion in view, e.g., Psa 18:10; Eze 28:4. So with the Vision of the Cherubim in Eze 10:1-20; 11:22. In the NT the word is found in Hbr 9:5, where the reference is to the Ark in the Tabernacle, and the thought is suggested of those who minister to the manifestation of the glory of God.

We may perhaps conclude, therefore, that, inasmuch as in the past and in the present angelic beings have functioned and do function administratively in the service of God, and that redeemed man in the future is to act administratively in fellowship with Him, the "Cherubim" in Scripture represent one or other of these two groups of created beings according to what is set forth in the various passages relating to them.