Exodus 25:1
THE LORD [HEBREW. _ JEHOVAH._ SPAKE. See notes on Exodus 3:7 and Exodus 6:10.... [ Continue Reading ]
THE LORD [HEBREW. _ JEHOVAH._ SPAKE. See notes on Exodus 3:7 and Exodus 6:10.... [ Continue Reading ]
CHILDREN. sons. OFFERING. heave offering. App-43. MAN. Hebrew. _'ish._ App-14.... [ Continue Reading ]
AND. Note the Figure of speech _Polysyndeton_ (App-6) in verses: Exodus 25:3. Fifteen objects _(verses: Exodus 25:3),_. x 5. All numbers connected with the Tabernacle are multiples of 5. See App-10. GOLD, &c. No iron in the tabernacle. BRASS. A mixture of copper and zinc was unknown then. Probably... [ Continue Reading ]
PURPLE, &c. These colours connected with the crucifixion. Matthew 27:28; John 19:2. White mentioned last. So in Revelation 19:13; Revelation 19:14.... [ Continue Reading ]
SHITTIM. acacia.... [ Continue Reading ]
THE LIGHT. the light-holder, as in Genesis 1:14.... [ Continue Reading ]
SANCTUARY. Hebrew. _kodesh._ See note on Exodus 3:5.... [ Continue Reading ]
PATTERN. Compare Hebrews 8:5. Not. plan, but. model. The reality is in heaven. So with the temple, later. 1 Chronicles 28:11. With the utmost exactitude certain representative measurements given. Nine others, vital to construction, but not for significance, not given. Probably these Divine silences... [ Continue Reading ]
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. Exodus 25:10; Exodus 26:1. So with the four great offerings. So with His work in the heart of the... [ Continue Reading ]
UPON IT. Some codices, with Samaritan Pentateuch, Septuagint, and. Syriac, read "thereto". CROWN. See note on Exodus 25:24.... [ Continue Reading ]
SIDE. Hebrew. _zel'a,_ rib. See note on Exodus 25:32.... [ Continue Reading ]
THE TESTIMONY. Hebrew. _'eduth_. witness, from _'ud,_ to bear witness, give testimony. The two tables so called because they bore. witness to, and were evidences of the covenant made, and of its future extension. 1 Timothy 2:6, "the testimony in its own season "(= "all", without distinction).... [ Continue Reading ]
MERCY SEAT. propitiatory cover (Hebrew. _kapporeth_. cover). By Figure of speech _Metonymy_ (App-6) _cover_ put for the propitiation made through the blood sprinkled thereon. It therefore denotes propitiation. Compare Hebrews 9:5. Hence the meaning, God's "propitiatory gift", as in Papyri. Compare R... [ Continue Reading ]
CHERUBIMS. Plural of Hebrew cherub. Figure of speech _Metonymy_ here put for _representation_ of the celestial beings, of which we know nothing. They are. reality, there, and representative of creation, symbolical of blessing for all creation. These (in Exodus 25:18) were not the cherubims themselve... [ Continue Reading ]
EVEN OF. out of. YE. Some codices, Hillel, Samaritan Pentateuch, Septuagint, and Syriac, read "thou".... [ Continue Reading ]
TOWARD. Looking toward the blood of propitiation. Compare Exodus 12:13 and Joshua 2:18. See especially Exodus 37:9.... [ Continue Reading ]
I WILL MEET. Hebrew meet as by appointment, and this, in the appointed place and way: "there". Compare Exodus 23:14; Exodus 29:42; Exodus 29:43; Exodus 29:45; Exodus 29:46; Exodus 34:22; Exodus 40:34; Exodus 40:35. THE ARK OF THE TESTIMONY. It has seven names: Ark of the covenant of Jehovah [ Continue Reading ]
CROWN OF GOLD. Note the three "crowns": (1) Ark (Exodus 25:11), _the crown of the Law._ The atoning blood between it, and the cherubim its executant. (2) Altar of incense (Exodus 30:3), _the crown of the priesthood._ Its incense fired only by the fire from the altar of burnt offering. (3) Table of s... [ Continue Reading ]
HAND BREADTH. See App-51.... [ Continue Reading ]
TO COVER. to pour out.... [ Continue Reading ]
SHEWBREAD. Hebrew bread of faces; faces being put _for presence_ by Figure of speech _Metonymy_ (of Adjunct), App-6, denoting the Divine presence in which the bread stood, and from Whom all supplies, material and spiritual, came. First occurance. ME. Hebrew "My face. "So that here we have the Figur... [ Continue Reading ]
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.... [ Continue Reading ]
SIDES. There are seventeen Hebrew words translated "side", important in this technical description. Here it is the ordinary word for "side", _zad._... [ Continue Reading ]
THREE. Note connection with four, Exodus 25:34, making seven. See App-10.... [ Continue Reading ]
IT. Hebrew the face of it. Figure of speech _Prosopopceia_ (App-6).... [ Continue Reading ]
TONGS. snuffers (but no extinguishers).... [ Continue Reading ]
TALENT. See App-61. shall he. The reading called Sevir (see App-34) reads "shalt thou"; so some codices, with Samaritan Pentateuch, Septuagint, and Syriac.... [ Continue Reading ]
PATTERN. See note on Hebrews 8:5, and compare 1 Chronicles 28:11; 1 Chronicles 28:12; 1 Chronicles 28:18; 1 Chronicles 28:19.... [ Continue Reading ]