EXODUS CHAPTER 25 Moses is commanded to take a free-will offering to set up the tabernacle, and of what, EXODUS 25:1. God commands him to make a sanctuary, EXODUS 25:8; chargeth him how and whereof to make a tabernacle, EXODUS 25:9. The form of the ark, EXODUS 25:10. The mercy-seat, EXODUS 25:17. Th... [ Continue Reading ]
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BLUE, or _sky-coloured_; but here you must not understand the mere colours, which could not be offered, but some materials proper for the work, and of the colours here mentioned, to wit, wool, or threads, or some suchlike things, as appears from HEBREWS 9:19, and from the testimony of the Jews. Fine... [ Continue Reading ]
A kind of wood growing in Egypt and the deserts of Arabia, very durable and precious. See EXODUS 35:24 NUMBERS 33:49 ISAIAH 41:19 JOEL 3:18.... [ Continue Reading ]
OIL FOR THE LIGHT; for the lamps or candlesticks, EXODUS 25:37. ANOINTING OIL, wherewith the priests, and the tabernacle, and the utensils thereof, were to be anointed. _Sweet_ INCENSE; Heb. _incense of spices, or sweet odours_; so called to distinguish it from the incense of the fat of sacrifices,... [ Continue Reading ]
ONYX STONES, or, _sardonyx stones_. Note, that the signification of the Hebrew names of the several stones are not agreed upon by the Jews at this day, and much more may we safely be ignorant of them, the religious use of them being now abolished. STONES TO BE SET IN THE EPHOD;_ stones of fulness, o... [ Continue Reading ]
A place of public and solemn worship, THAT I MAY DWELL AMONG THEM; not by my essence, which is every where, but by my grace and glorious operations.... [ Continue Reading ]
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AN ARK, or little chest, or _coffer_, for the uses after mentioned. TWO CUBITS AND A HALF; understand it of the common cubit, which is generally conceived to contain a foot and a half of our measure. See GENESIS 6:15.... [ Continue Reading ]
Or, _a border_, raised up above the rest of the ark, as a crown is above that which it is applied to, only a crown is round, and this was square. This was both for ornament, and for the fastening of the covering of the ark to it.... [ Continue Reading ]
IN THE FOUR CORNERS; in the middle of each corner, for conveniency of carriage. See 1 KINGS 7:30.... [ Continue Reading ]
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To wit, the two tables of stone, wherein the decalogue was written, called the TESTIMONY here, and EXODUS 30:6 LEVITICUS 16:13; and more fully _the tables of the testimony_, EXODUS 31:18 NUMBERS 1:50; because they were witnesses of that covenant made between God and his people, whence they are calle... [ Continue Reading ]
MERCY-SEAT, or, _propitiatory_; which seems from the sameness of dimensions to be nothing else but the covering of the ark, upon which God is said to sit, whence the ark is called God's footstool. This covering is a manifest type of Christ, who is therefore called the _propitiation_, or _propitiator... [ Continue Reading ]
Figures of human shape, in which alone the angels used to appear; but they had wings, to signify their expedition in God's work and messages. And between these angels God is said to sit and dwell. So this place was a representation of heaven, where God sitteth and dwelleth among the cherubims and ot... [ Continue Reading ]
i.e. Of one and the same piece of massy gold, out of which the cherubims were made.... [ Continue Reading ]
Towards God, who is supposed to sit there, whose face the angels in heaven always behold, and upon whom their eyes are fixed to observe and receive his commands; and towards Christ, the true propitiatory, which mystery they _desire to look into_, 1 PETER 1:12; not envying mankind their near and happ... [ Continue Reading ]
Or, _after thou shalt have put in the ark_; for the ark was not to be opened after the covering was put upon it. The Hebrew particle _vau_ oft signifies _after that_, as JEREMIAH 43:13, JEREMIAH 51:60.... [ Continue Reading ]
THERE I WILL MEET WITH THEE; there I will be in a special and gracious manner present with thee. FROM BETWEEN THE CHERUBIMS, which spreading forth their wings formed a kind of seat, which the Divine Majesty was pleased to possess.... [ Continue Reading ]
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A square border at the top of it, as EXODUS 25:11; partly for ornament, and principally to keep what was put upon it from falling off.... [ Continue Reading ]
A BORDER, which encompassed and kept together the feet of the table, and seems to have been towards the bottom of it. A GOLDEN CROWN; not the same mentioned before, EXODUS 25:24, but another for further ornament to the table.... [ Continue Reading ]
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As much below the top as the border was above the bottom of the feet. of the table, which was a convenient place for the carriage. Others, _near the border_, in that part of the feet which is next to it.... [ Continue Reading ]
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THE DISHES, in which the bread and frankincense upon it were put, LEVITICUS 24:7. Of this sort there were twelve, one for every loaf. SPOONS, in which incense was put, as appears from NUMBERS 7:14, and by which incense was either put into the dishes or taken out of them, as occasion required. COVERS... [ Continue Reading ]
Heb. _Bread of faces, or of the presence_, so called, because it was constantly placed in God's presence. This bread was divided into twelve loaves, one for every tribe; and they were in their name presented to God in the nature of an offering, as the frankincense shows, as a public acknowledgment t... [ Continue Reading ]
THOU SHALT MAKE, either by thyself, or by some other person whom thou shalt cause to make it. HIS SHAFT; the trunk, or main body of it. HIS KNOPS, or, _apples_, made in form of a pomegranate. HIS FLOWERS SHALL BE OF THE SAME, to wit, beaten out of the same piece by the hammer. Compare EXODUS 25:36.... [ Continue Reading ]
IN EVERY ONE OF WHICH WAS A LAMP, and there was a seventh lamp in the chief stem of it, as appears from EXODUS 25:37. And all these together represent _the seven Spirits of God_, REVELATION 1:4, REVELATION 4:5 5:6; or the Spirit of God, the great Enlightener of the church, with his sevenfold or vari... [ Continue Reading ]
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IN THE CANDLESTICK, i.e. in the shaft or trunk of the candlestick, which is here distinguished from its branches, shall be four bowls, whereas there were but three in each of the branches.... [ Continue Reading ]
And, to complete the number of four, mentioned in the foregoing verse, we must understand that there was another knop and bowl and flower in the upper part of the shaft, above all the branches, as the rules of proportion, and common use in making such things, will easily evince.... [ Continue Reading ]
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THEY SHALL LIGHT THE LAMPS, whom I shall appoint for that work. Over against it, i.e. either, 1. The table of shewbread. Or rather, 2. The candlestick, as it is expressed, NUMBERS 8:2, where by the _candlestick_ you are to understand, as here, EXODUS 25:33,34, the stem or main body of it; and the... [ Continue Reading ]
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A talent contains three thousand shekels, EXO 38 25, or one hundred and twenty-five pounds.... [ Continue Reading ]
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