And thou shalt make a mercy seat [of] pure gold: two cubits and a half [shall be] the length thereof, and a cubit and a half the breadth thereof.
Ver. 17. A mercy seat.] Heb., A covering; or covering up of men's sins; the appeasing of an angry God, compare Gen 32:20 by Christ who is our propitiation or mercy seat. Romans 3:25 1Jn 2:2
Two cubits and a half, &c.] Just so big every way as the ark. Exo 25:10 Get into covenant with God, saith one, for as the mercy seat was no larger than the ark, so neither is the grace of God than the covenant. And as the ark and mercy seat were not asunder; so God is near to all that call upon him in truth.