The Ark of the Covenant with the Mercy Seat lifted to reveal the interior, set against a white background. This is part of a two-image set with identical bases. The other has the Mercy Seat closed.
4 So the people sent to Shiloh and brought from there the ark of the covenant of the LORD of hosts, who is enthroned on the cherubim. And the two sons of Eli, Hophni and Phinehas, were there with the ark of the covenant of God.
Deuteronomy 31
26 “Take this Book of the Law and put it by the side of the ark of the covenant of the LORD your God, that it may be there for a witness against you.
Exodus 25
18 And you shall make two cherubim of gold; of hammered work shall you make them, on the two ends of the mercy seat.19 Make one cherub on the one end, and one cherub on the other end. Of one piece with the mercy seat shall you make the cherubim on its two ends.
Exodus 26
34 You shall put the mercy seat on the ark of the testimony in the Most Holy Place.
Exodus 37
6 And he made a mercy seat of pure gold. Two cubits and a half was its length, and a cubit and a half its breadth.7 And he made two cherubim of gold. He made them of hammered work on the two ends of the mercy seat,
