Particular attention was paid to the cherubs in the Old Testament stories about the Ark of the Covenant, where divine instructions were given in detail to Moses about the appearance of the ark. Where the cherubim mounted on the lid of the box with the tablets. They were made of pure gold, with their wings covered the ark. After Solomon ordered the installation of two five-meter cherubs in the Holy of Holies of the Jerusalem Temple. They covered the ark with wings, made them of olive tree and covered with gold. Cherubs were also depicted on the many coatings of both the Temple and the Tabernacle, on curtains and walls.Legend has it that one of the pilgrims reproached Solomon for the fact that the people of Israel worship the statues, and after that the cherubs began to be depicted on the walls to emphasize the secondary nature in comparison with God. In the revelations of the prophet Ezekiel, cherubim are mentioned as having beings of a person and a lion at the same time. When Ezekiel saw the tetramorph - the messenger of God, he begged to replace the calf of the four creatures he saw with a cherubim - he did not want the sight of God to defile the animal worshiped by the Jews, forgetting about the only ruler.