Mercy seat
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According to the Hebrew Bible, the kaporet or mercy seat was the gold lid placed on the Ark of the Covenant, with two cherubim at the ends to cover and create the space in which Yahweh appeared and dw
Replica of the ark of the covenant, with the "mercy seat" (kaporet) acting as lid.
"The Ark and the Mercy Seat", 1894 illustration by Henry Davenport Northrop
The mercy seat in the 1890 Holman Bible
Ark of the Covenant
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The Ark of the Covenant, also known as the Ark of the Testimony or the Ark of God, was a religious storage chest and relic held to be the most sacred object by the Israelites.
Mercy seat
…According to the Hebrew Bible, the kaporet (Hebrew: כַּפֹּרֶת kapōreṯ) or mercy seat was the gold lid placed on the Ark of the Covenant, with two cherubim at the ends to cover and create the space in which Yahweh appeared and dwelled. This was connected with the rituals of the Day of…
Moses and Joshua bowing before the Ark (c. 1900) by James Tissot
Ark of the chapelle de l'Adoration (Église Saint-Roch, Paris).
The Philistine captivity of the Ark depicted in the Dura-Europos synagogue
Joshua passing the River Jordan with the Ark of the Covenant by Benjamin West, 1800