Wesley's Explanatory Notes
Exodus 27:2
The horns of it, were for ornament and for use; the sacrifices were bound with cords to the horns of the altar, and to them malefactors fled for refuge.
The horns of it, were for ornament and for use; the sacrifices were bound with cords to the horns of the altar, and to them malefactors fled for refuge.
Verse Exodus 27:2. _THOU SHALT MAKE THE HORNS OF IT_] The horns might have three uses: 1. For ornament. 2. To prevent carcasses, c., from falling off. 3. To tie the victim to, previously to its bei...
(Compare Exodus 38:1.) The great altar which stood in the court immediately in front of the tabernacle was commonly called the altar of burnt-offering, because on it were burnt the whole burnt-offerin...
CHAPTER 27 THE TABERNACLE CONCLUDED _ 1. The altar of brass (Exodus 27:1)_ 2. The court of the tabernacle (Exodus 27:9) 3. The oil for the lamp (Exodus 27:20) The brazen altar stood at the door of...
EXODUS 27. P. ALTAR AND OUTER COURT (_cf. Exodus 38:1_, Exodus 38:9). In strongest contrast to Exodus 20:24, with its sanction of many altars, rudely made of earth or rough stone blocks, we find instr...
BRASS, or copper. Perhaps bronze. See Exodus 25:3....
_the horns of it_ these were an indispensable part of an altar (cf. Exodus 30:2-3), and were regarded as its most sacred part: the blood of the sin-offering was applied to them (Exodus 29:12 [" Leviti...
(cf. Exodus 38:1-7). The _altar of burnt-offering_. This was a hollow frame of acacia planks, overlaid with copper (or bronze) 5 cubits (=7 ½ ft.) in length and breadth, and 3 cubits (1 ½ ft.) in heig...
THE TEXT OF EXODUS TRANSLATION 27 And thou shalt make the altar of acacia wood, five cubits long, and five cubits broad; the altar shall be foursquare: and the height thereof shall be three cubits. (2...
_AND THOU SHALT MAKE THE HORNS OF IT UPON THE FOUR CORNERS THEREOF: HIS HORNS SHALL BE OF THE SAME: AND THOU SHALT OVERLAY IT WITH BRASS._ No JFB commentary on this verse....
THE ALTAR OF BURNT OFFERING. THE COURT OF THE TABERNACLE. THE OIL FOR THE LAMPS 1-8. Altar of Burnt Offering. This is a hollow chest of acacia wood overlaid with bronze, and stands within the court,...
EXODUS: *ISRAEL BECOMES A NATION GOD’S INSTRUCTIONS TO MOSES EXODUS CHAPTER S 19 TO 40 _HILDA BRIGHT AND KITTY PRIDE_ CHAPTER 27 THE *ALTAR WHERE THE PRIESTS BURNT THE ANIMALS THAT THE *ISRAELIT...
THE HORNS OF IT. — It is not true to say, as Kalisch does, that “the altars of almost all ancient nations were frequently provided with horns.” On the contrary, horns were, so far as is known, peculia...
וְ עָשִׂ֣יתָ קַרְנֹתָ֗יו עַ֚ל אַרְבַּ֣ע פִּנֹּתָ֔יו...
CHAPTER XXVII. _ THE OUTER COURT._ Exodus 27:1 Before describing the tabernacle, its furniture was specified. And so, when giving instructions for the court of the tabernacle, the altar has to be de...
THE ALTAR AND THE COURT Exodus 27:1 The brazen altar is dealt with long before any particular mention is made of the altar of incense, because the question of our relationship with God, through the d...
Here we have the account of the court surrounding the Tabernacle and the Tent and here again the description begins from the inside. First, the brazen altar is described. It symbolized devotion on the...
And thou shalt make the horns of it upon the four corners thereof: his horns shall be of (b) the same: and thou shalt overlay it with brass. (b) Of the same wood and matter not fastened to it....
_It. The altar, wood. The horns were for ornament, and were made of brass. Upon them also they might hang the grate, and instruments for sacrifice. (Calmet) --- Some of the pagan altars consisted of t...
The horns of the altar had the sacrifice fastened to them.; See Psalms 118:27. And was not Christ bound and fastened to the cross? Some have thought that the brass covering implied the Deity of Jesus...
"In the third month, when the children of Israel were gone forth out of the land of Egypt, the same day came they into the wilderness of Sinai." Up to this point all the dealings of God have been the...
In the court God meets the world (I do not speak of the world itself through which we walk: [1] this was the desert); but it is where those coming up out of the world draw near to God, where His peopl...
Ver. 2 AND THOU SHALT MAKE THE HORNS OF IT UPON THE FOUR CORNERS THEREOF,.... Which were either for ornament, or for keeping what was laid upon the altar from falling off, or for the fastening of the...
And thou shalt make the horns of it upon the four corners thereof: his horns shall be of the same: and thou shalt overlay it with brass. Ver. 2. _Horns of it._] To bind the beasts unto, that were to...
_Thou shalt make the horns of it_ Pinnacles or spires, rising up at the corners, wrought out of the same wood; which was partly for ornament, and partly for use. To them the animals were bound, and pa...
1 The Altar of burnt offering, with the vessels thereof. 9 The Court of the Tabernacle inclosed with hangings and pillars. 18 The measure of the Court. 20 The oile for the lampe. 1 AND thou shalt...
And thou shalt make the horns of it upon the four corners thereof, hornlike projections which were firmly attached to the altar, as though growing out of it. They are often mentioned, and their signif...
THE ALTAR...
4. _The Tent, or the Dwelling itself_. Exodus 26:1-30 I. The Component Parts of the Tent as to Form. _a_. The tent itself. (1) Ten curtains of byssus each 28 cubits long, and 4 cubits wide. (2) Fift...
H. THE VISION OR THE IDEAL OF THE TABERNACLE. THE ORDERING OF THE ARK AND OF THE HOUSE OF THE COVENANT; OF THE LIVING PRESENCE OF THE LAW AND OF THE DWELLING-PLACE OF THE LAW-GIVER Exodus 25-31 I. C...
THE BRAZEN (OR COPPER) ALTAR (vs.1-8) On entering the courtyard, one would stand immediately before the brazen altar. Then the laver stood between the altar and the tabernacle entrance. This altar (o...
1-8 In the court before the tabernacle, where the people attended, was an altar, to which they must bring their sacrifices, and on which their priests must offer them to God. It was of wood overlaid...
THE HORNS were elevated above the body of the altar, in form either of pyramids or spires, or rather of horns, as the word signifies; nor is there any necessity; of departing from the proper significa...
We have now arrived at the brazen altar which stood at the door of the tabernacle; and I would call my reader's most particular attention to the order of the Holy Ghost in this portion of our book. We...
Exodus 27:2 make H6213 (H8804) horns H7161 four H702 corners H6438 horns H7161 overlay H6823 (H8765) bronze...
THE ALTAR OF BURNT OFFERING (EXODUS 27:1). The altar was to be covered with ‘brazen copper', probably copper alloyed with tin to make bronze. It was thus of inferior material compared with the gold an...
BRASS Compare (Numbers 21:9); (John 3:14); (John 12:31), thus fixing the symbolic meaning of brass as divine manifestation in judgment....
CONTENTS: Directions about the brazen altar and the court. CHARACTERS: God, Moses, Aaron. CONCLUSION: Sinful man dare not approach God (at the ark) Hebrews 9:8; but God approaches man as a sinner th...
Exodus 27:1. _Make an altar._ The altar, says a living author before mentioned, seems to have been intended only for the present purpose, until further orders were given; and especially for those sacr...
_An altar of shittim wood._ THE ALTAR OF BURNT-OFFERING I. The altar of burnt-offering was made partly of wood, and partly of brass. The wood was incorruptible; and was therefore a lively type of th...
EXODUS—NOTE ON EXODUS 27:1 This ALTAR made of wood and overlaid with BRONZE is referred to later by its function: “the altar of burnt offering” ...
EXODUS—NOTE ON EXODUS 27:2 The altar is to have HORNS on each corner. Their function and significance are not explained. ⇐...
CRITICAL NOTES.— Exodus 27:1. An altar of shittim wood.] It was known also by two other names: 1st, as “the brass altar,” so called since it was overlaid with brass; 2d, the “outer altar,” because of...
EXPOSITION THE ALTAR OF BURNT OFFERING. From the description of the tabernacle, or sacred tent in which worship was to be offered by the priests, it followed in natural sequence, that directions shoul...
Now on the outside they were to make a court, which would be seventy-five feet wide, and a hundred and fifty feet long, with curtains around it seven and a half feet high. So that you have this outer...
horns of it upon the four corners thereof. The horns might Exodus 29:12 Leviticus 4:7 Leviticus 4:18 Leviticus 4:25...