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Exodus 25:31-40

EXODUS—NOTE ON Exodus 25:31 The lampstand (see Exodus 37:17) provides light within the tabernacle. The priests will be instructed to keep it burning regularly (see Exodus 27:20; Leviticus 24:1). It was a symbolic tree, recalling the tree of life in Eden.

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See also Exodus 25:31-40 in other biblical comments:

  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    Verse Exodus 25:31. _A CANDLESTICK OF PURE GOLD_] This _candlestick_ or _chandelier_ is generally described as having one _shaft_ or _stock_, with _six branches_ proceeding from it, adorned at equal...

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    Exodus 25:31 A CANDLESTICK OF PURE GOLD - (Compare Exodus 37:17.) A lampstand rather than a candlestick. Its purpose was to support seven oil-lamps. Its height appears to have been about three feet, a...

  • 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 25:31 P. THE GOLDEN CANDLESTICK (or LAMPSTAND, _ cf. Exodus 37:17_ and Exodus 25:24). This was of massive gold, weighing 96 lbs., with its vessels ...

  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

    CANDLESTICK. lampstand. SHALL... BE MADE. Some codices, with Samaritan Pentateuch, The Targum of Jonathan ben Uzziel Septuagint, and Syriac, read "shalt thou make". KNOPS. knobs....

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    _candlestick_ LAMPSTAND would be a more accurate rendering; but no doubt -candlestick" (though the expression involves an anachronism) is generally understood here in the same sense. _its base_ Heb....

  • Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

    THOU SHALT MAKE A CANDLESTICK OF PURE GOLD— This _candlestick_ or _chandelier_ was to consist of a _shaft,_ from which were to issue _six branches,_ each branch to have _three bowls_ or _cups,_ made i...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    THE TEXT OF EXODUS TRANSLATION 25 AND JE-HO-VAH SPAKE UNTO MO-SES, SAYING, (2) SPEAK UNTO THE CHILDREN OF IS-RA-EL, THAT THEY TAKE FOR ME AN OFFERING: OF EVERY MAN WHOSE HEART MAKETH HIM WILLING YE SH...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    _AND THOU SHALT MAKE A CANDLESTICK OF PURE GOLD: OF BEATEN WORK SHALL THE CANDLESTICK BE MADE: HIS SHAFT, AND HIS BRANCHES, HIS BOWLS, HIS KNOPS, AND HIS FLOWERS, SHALL BE OF THE SAME._ Candlestick -...

  • 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

    BOWLS] (RV 'cups') are the open leaves surmounting the knops or 'calyx 'of the flower. The topmost bowl held the lamp. On the oil, see on Exodus 27:20,; and cp. Leviticus 24:1; Numbers 8:1. SHALL BE O...

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    EXODUS: *ISRAEL BECOMES A NATION GOD’S INSTRUCTIONS TO MOSES EXODUS CHAPTER S 19 TO 40 _HILDA BRIGHT AND KITTY PRIDE_ CHAPTER 25 Chapter s 25:1 – 31:17 contain details about how the *Israelites...

  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    OF BEATEN WORK. — Like the cherubim. (See Note on Exodus 25:18.) HIS BOWLS, HIS KNOPS, AND HIS FLOWERS. — Rather, _its cups, its pomegranates, and its blossoms._ The “cups_”_ are afterwards said to b...

  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    THE GOLDEN CANDLESTICK. (31-39) The golden candlestick, like the table of shewbread, was represented on the Arch of Titus, and the careful copy made under the direction of Reland in 1710, and publishe...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    וְ עָשִׂ֥יתָ מְנֹרַ֖ת זָהָ֣ב טָהֹ֑ור מִקְשָׁ֞ה...

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    CHAPTER XXV. _ THE SHRINE AND ITS FURNITURE._ Exodus 25:1 The first direction given to Moses on the mountain is to prepare for the making of a tabernacle wherein God may dwell with man. For this he...

  • Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

    THE TABLE OF SHOWBREAD AND THE LAMPSTAND Exodus 25:23 The Table of the Showbread, or Presence-bread, held the twelve loaves, which represented the tribes of Israel. It was three feet long, one foot,...

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

    Here we begin consideration of the transactions of the forty days. Moses received instruction concerning a place of worship for the nation. It is important that we attempt to understand what this mean...

  • Geneva Study Bible Commentary

    And thou shalt make a candlestick [of] pure gold: [of] beaten (i) work shall the candlestick be made: his shaft, and his branches, his bowls, his knops, and his flowers, shall be of the same. (i) It...

  • George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

    A candlestick. This candlestick, with its seven lamps, which ws always to give light in the house of God, was a figure of the light of the Holy Ghost, and his seven-fold grace, in the sanctuary of the...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    All this furniture, so splendid and magnificent as it was, had no doubt a spiritual signification; but, as the apostle observes of these things, we cannot now speak particularly. Hebrews 9:5. The tabe...

  • Introductory Lectures - Commentary by William Kelly

    "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...

  • John Calvin's Bible Commentary

    31._And thou shalt make a candlestick. _God would have seven bright lamps burning day and night in the Tabernacle: _first, _that the people might know that they were directed by God Himself as to how...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

    THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 24 AND 25. This covenant, made on condition of the obedience of the people, was confirmed by blood [1] (chap. 24.) The blood being shed, death having thus co...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    AND THOU SHALT MAKE A CANDLESTICK OF PURE GOLD,.... Another piece of household furniture, and an useful one, especially in a house where there are no windows, as there were none in the tabernacle, den...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    And thou shalt make a candlestick [of] pure gold: [of] beaten work shall the candlestick be made: his shaft, and his branches, his bowls, his knops, and his flowers, shall be of the same. Ver. 31. _A...

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

    This candlestick had many _branches_ drawn from the _main shaft_, which had not only _bowls_ to put the oil and the kindled wick in for necessity, but _knops_ made in the form of a pomegranate and _fl...

  • KJV Original Language Details

    [FREE OFFERINGS.] 1 What the Israelites must offer for the making of the Tabernacle. 10 The forme of the Arke. 17 The Mercy-seat, with the Cherubims. 23 The table, with the furniture thereof. 31...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    THE CANDLESTICK AND THE HOLY VESSELS...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    And thou shalt make a candlestick of pure gold; of beaten work shall the candlestick be made, of chased work, rounded with the hammer, apparently not solid, but hollow inside; HIS SHAFT, the base with...

  • Lange's Commentary on the Holy Scriptures

    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...

  • Lange's Commentary on the Holy Scriptures

    I. Prerequisites: the materials; the assessments. Exodus 25:1-9 As the real temple of God must consist in believing hearts which offer themselves and build themselves into a temple of the Spirit of Go...

  • 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

    31-40 The candlestick represents the light of God's word and Spirit, in and through Christ Jesus, afforded in this dark world to his believing people, to direct their worship and obedience, and to af...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    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 FLOW...

  • Notes on the Pentateuch by Charles Henry Mackintosh

    This chapter forms the commencement of one of the richest veins in Inspiration's exhaustless mine a vein in which every stroke of the mattock brings to light untold wealth. We know the mattock with wh...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Exodus 25:31 make H6213 (H8804) lampstand H4501 pure H2889 gold H2091 lampstand H4501 work H4749 shaft H3409 branche

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    THE GOLDEN LAMPSTAND (EXODUS 25:31). The making of this may be analysed as follows: a The lampstand to be made of beaten work of pure gold: its base, its shaft its cups, its buds and its flowers, al...

  • Scofield's Bible Commentary

    CANDLESTICK Candlestick, type of Christ our Light, shining in the fullness of the power of the sevenfold Spirit (Isaiah 11:2); (Hebrews 1:9); (Revelation 1:4). Natural light was excluded from the tab...

  • Sermon Bible Commentary

    Exodus 25:31 I. This light shines because it is light, without effort, spontaneously. If the lamp is kindled, it will shine; and so this emblem has its beautiful felicity in that it points, as the hig...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    CONTENTS: Moses in the mount; first directions concerning the tabernacle. CHARACTERS: God, Moses. CONCLUSION: The only way for God and man to meet is in the precise way and place which He has appoint...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    Exodus 25:2. _That they bring me an offering._ We now enter on the tabernacle, a hallowed work, a figure of the church, and emblem of the heavenly glory. This mystical temple was not new: it had exist...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _A candlestick of pure gold._ THE GOLDEN CANDLESTICK I. This light shines because it is light, without effort, spontaneously. If the lamp is kindled it will shine; and so this emblem has its beautifu...

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    _MAIN HOMILETICS OF THE PARAGRAPH.— Exodus 25:31_ THE CANDLESTICK Christ is the “light of the world,” and His Church is the lamp-holder, the light-bearer. What does the candlestick teach in respect...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    EXPOSITION THE GOLDEN CANDLESTICK (Exodus 25:31-2). Though the holy of holies was always dark, unless when lighted by. the glory of God (Exodus 40:34, Exodus 40:35)

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    Now it is interesting as God gives to him the design, He starts not with the tabernacle itself but with the furnishings within the tabernacle. So in chapter twenty-five, we begin with the materials th...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    a candlestick Exodus 35:14 Exodus 37:17 Exodus 40:24 Exodus 40:25 1 Kings

  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    This candlestick had many branches drawn from the main shaft, which had not only bowls to put the oil and the kindled wick in for necessity, but knops made in the form of a pomegranate and flowers for...

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