Easton's Bible Dictionary: Footstool
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Connected with a throne (
2 Chronicles 9:18
). Jehovah symbolically dwelt in the holy place between the cherubim above the ark of the covenant. The ark was his footstool (
1 Chronicles 28:2
;
Psalm 99:5
;
132:7
). And as heaven is God's throne, so the earth is his footstool (
Psalm 110:1
;
Isaiah 66:1
;
Matthew 5:35
).
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