one cherub on one end and one on the other, all made from one piece of gold.
I. It may be thought strange that Moses, when he had recorded so fully the instructions given him upon the mount for the making of all these things, should here record as particularly the making of them, when it might have sufficed only to have said, in a few words, that each of these things was made exactly according to the directions before recited.
Commenting on Exodus 37:1-9
One cherub on the end on this side, and another cherub on the [other] end on that side: out of the mercy seat made he the cherubims on the two ends thereof. (b) Of the same material that the mercyseat was.
The ark comes first in this account not by accident but by hierarchy: it is the most holy thing, and therefore Bezalel, chief architect of the entire sanctuary, is named explicitly for its construction. The remaining vessels follow in their proper order, each built according to the measurements and patterns already given in the earlier commandments.
AI summary
Commenting on Exodus 37:1-29