mercy seat

NOUN
  1. the golden covering of the ark of the covenant
  2. the throne of God

How To Use mercy seat In A Sentence

  • The high priest having done this, perfumed the sanctuary, returned to the door, took the blood of the slain bullock, and, carrying it into the holy of holies, sprinkled it with his finger once upon the mercy seat "eastward" -- that is, on the side next to himself; and seven times "before the mercy seat" -- that is, on the front of the ark. Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
  • Besides the goat offered for the people the blood of which was sprinkled before the mercy seat, the high priest led forth a second goat, namely, the scapegoat; over it he confessed the people's sins, putting them on the head of the goat, which was sent as the sin-bearer into the wilderness out of sight, implying that the atonement effected by the goat sin offering (of which the ceremony of the scapegoat is a part, and not distinct from the sin offering) consisted in the transfer of the people's sins on the goat, and their consequent removal out of sight. Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
  • A propitiatory ... a covering for the ark: called a propitiatory, or mercy seat, because the Lord, who was supposed to sit there upon the wings of the cherubims, with the ark for his footstool, from thence shewed mercy. The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 02: Exodus The Challoner Revision
  • By rejecting the two-apartment ministry of Christ for us, the "new theology" turns attention away from the exalted place where the law resides beneath the mercy seat of the ark.
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