The mercy seat is first introduced in Exodus 25:10-22. This is part of a larger passage that is dealing with the construction of the tabernacle and its furnishings. These thirteen verses describe what came to be known as the ark of the covenant. The first few verses describe the ark itself – a wooden box that is about 45 inches long and 27 inches wide and tall. It has legs, rings, and carrying poles, and is overlaid with gold. Contained within the ark were the stone tablets with the words of the covenant written on them.
That same day Jesus went out of the house and sat beside the sea. And great crowds gathered about him, so that he got...
The Book of Ruth is one of the shorter books of the Bible, but the story it tells is one of the most movingly...
Love is patient and kind; love does not envy or boast; it is not arrogant or rude. It does not insist on its own...
