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John Trapp Complete Commentary

Exodus 25:10

And they shall make an ark [of] shittim wood: two cubits and a half [shall be] the length thereof, and a cubit and a half the breadth thereof, and a cubit and a half the height thereof.

Ver. 10. An ark.] Chest, or cabinet, wherein to keep the two tables of the law, signifying thereby that "Christ is the end of the law," covering the imperfection of our works.

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  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    Verse Exodus 25:10. _THEY SHALL MAKE AN ARK_]_ _ארון_ _aron signifies an _ark, chest, coffer_, or _coffin_. It is used particularly to designate that chest or coffer in which the _testimony_ or two _...

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    (compare Exodus 37:1). The ark is uniformly designated in Exodus the ark of the testimony. Elsewhere it is called the testimony, the ark of the covenant (most frequently in Deuteronomy and the other b...

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    3. THE TABERNACLE AND THE PRIESTHOOD CHAPTER 25 The Tabernacle _ 1. The freewill offering and the materials (Exodus 25:1)_ 2. The ark (Exodus 25:10) 3. The table of showbread (Exodus 25:23) 4.

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    EXODUS 25:10 P. THE ARK (_cf._ Exodus 37:1). Three stages of tradition may be distinguished with regard to the Ark (pp. 105f., 123f.): (_a)_ In JE, and in the earlier historical books, it is the visib...

  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

    ARK. Note the order in which these things were made, and the lesson arising therefrom. God begins from within; man from without, Matthew 15:16. Here the work begins with the ark and ends with the gate...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    _an ark_ The Heb. word (" _ârôn_: not the word used of Moses -ark," Exodus 2:3) signifies a _box_or _chest_: it is used in Genesis 50:26 of a mummy case, and in 2 Kings 12:9-10, of a coffer for the co...

  • Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

    THEY SHALL MAKE AN ARK OF SHITTIM-WOOD— The furniture of the most sacred part of the tabernacle, the _Holy of holies,_ the immediate residence of the Divinity, is first appointed. Of this, the _ark_ o...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

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  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

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  • Darby's translation notes (1890)

    25:10 ark (g-6) 'Chest.'...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    THE VESSELS OF THE SANCTUARY Chapter s 25-31 are taken up with prescriptions regarding the Construction of a Tabernacle, i.e. a tent, to form the visible dwelling-place of Jehovah in the midst of His...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    ARK] i.e. a chest or coffer. A cubit is about 18 in. Such sacred arks were well known to the Egyptians and Assyrians. They contained some image of the deity worshipped, and were carried with great pom...

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

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  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

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  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    וְ עָשׂ֥וּ אֲרֹ֖ון עֲצֵ֣י שִׁטִּ֑ים אַמָּתַ֨יִם...

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

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  • Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

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  • G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

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  • George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

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  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

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  • Introductory Lectures - Commentary by William Kelly

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  • John Darby's Synopsis

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  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

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  • Jonathan Edwards' Notes On The Scriptures

    Exo. 25:10, etc. "And they shall make an ark of shittim-wood," etc. The ark was upon many accounts a lively type of Jesus Christ. The ark was united to the Godhead, it had the cloud of glory over it a...

  • Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

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  • KJV Original Language Details

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  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

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  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

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  • Lange's Commentary on the Holy Scriptures

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  • Lange's Commentary on the Holy Scriptures

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  • Leslie M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

    WILLING OFFERINGS FOR GOD'S SANCTUARY (vs.1-9) The law has been declared to Israel, with its stern ordinances and regulations. Now the Lord instructs Moses in a matter that is in striking contrast t...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

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  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    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....

  • Notes on the Pentateuch by Charles Henry Mackintosh

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  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

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  • Scofield's Bible Commentary

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  • Spurgeon's Bible Commentary

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  • Summarized Bible Commentary

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  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

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  • The Biblical Illustrator

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  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

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  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

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  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

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  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

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  • The Pulpit Commentaries

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  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

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  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

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  • Wells of Living Water Commentary

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  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    The ark was a chest or coffer, in which the two tables of the law, written with the finger of God, were to be deposited. If the Jewish cubit was, as some learned men compute three inches longer than o...

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