#4 The Ark - Plans for the Ark of the Covenant and Mercy Seat

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Exodus 25:10-16
Plans for the Ark of the Covenant


Other names used in the Bible for the Ark of the Covenant:
The Ark (Exodus 40:20)
The Holy Ark (2 Chronicles 35:3)
The Ark of the LORD (1 Samuel 6:1)
The Ark of the Covenant of the LORD (1 Samuel 4:3)
The Ark of the Testimony (Exodus 40:3)
The Ark of God (1 Samuel 14:18)
The Ark of the Covenant of God (Judges 20:27)
The Ark of the LORD your God (Joshua 4:5)
The Ark of the God of Israel (1 Samuel 5:8)
The Ark of the LORD God of Israel (1 Chronicles 15:14)
The Ark of Thy Strength (2 Chronicles 6:41; Psalms 132:8)
The Ark of God the LORD, that dwelleth between the cherumbims, Whose name is called on it. (1Chronicles 13:6)

“Have the people make an ark of shittim wood, 45 inches long, 27 inches wide, and 27 inches high. Overlay it inside and outside with pure gold, and run a molding of gold all around it. Cast four gold rings and attach them to the four corners, two rings on each side. Make poles from shittim wood, and overlay them with gold. Insert the poles into the rings at the sides of the Ark to carry it. These poles must stay inside the rings; never remove them.”

Exodus 25:17-22
Plans for the mercy seat

“And you shall make a mercy seat from pure gold. It must be 45 inches long and 27 inches wide. Then make two cherubims from hammered gold, and place them on the two ends of the mercy seat. Mold the cherubims on each end of the mercy seat, making it all of one piece of gold. The cherubims will face each other looking down upon the mercy seat, with their wings stretched out covering it. Put the mercy seat upon the top of the ark to cover it.

When the Ark is finished, place inside it the testimony I shall give you. (The testimony he will give is the stone tablets inscribed with the Ten Commandments by the very finger of God.)

 “I will meet with you there and talk to you from above the mercy seat, between the two gold cherubims, which are upon the Ark of the Covenant. From there I will give you my commands unto the children of Israel.”

When God had spoken to Moses out of the midst of the cloud upon Sinai, He also told him that He would come down to speak with him in the midst of His people. It was from the area above the Mercy Seat that He did:

Numbers 7:89 “When Moses went into the Tabernacle of the Congregation to speak with Him (God), then he heard the voice of one speaking to him from off the mercy seat that was upon the Ark of the Testimony, from between the two cherubims: and he spoke to him.”

1Chronicles 13:6 “The Ark of God the LORD, that dwells between the cherumbims, whose name is called on it.”


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