holiness is their great concern; they prevented Adam and Eve’s reentry into the Garden (Gen. 3:24).43 Carved figures of gold cherubs were fastened to the atonement cover (“mercy seat,” KJV) of the ark of the covenant, where their wings were a “shelter” for the ark of the covenant and a support (“chariot”) for God’s invisible throne (1 Chron 28:18). In Ezekiel cherubs are highly symbolic creatures having human and animal characteristics, with two faces (Ezek. 41:18–20) or four (Ezek. 1:6; 10:14).44