Exodus 31 - Introduction
_BEZALEEL AND AHOLIAB ARE CALLED FOR THE WORK OF THE TABERNACLE: GOD AGAIN ENJOINS THE OBSERVATION OF THE SABBATH: MOSES RECEIVES THE TWO TABLES OF STONES._ _Before Christ 1491._... [ Continue Reading ]
_BEZALEEL AND AHOLIAB ARE CALLED FOR THE WORK OF THE TABERNACLE: GOD AGAIN ENJOINS THE OBSERVATION OF THE SABBATH: MOSES RECEIVES THE TWO TABLES OF STONES._ _Before Christ 1491._... [ Continue Reading ]
SEE, I HAVE CALLED BY NAME BEZALEEL, &C.— _Bezaleel_ and _Aholiab,_ Exodus 31:5 are particularly chosen (which is the meaning of the phrase _calling by name,_ Isaiah 45:3.) as the principal artists, the chief directors and overseers of the work and the workmen who were under them. For an explanation... [ Continue Reading ]
THE PURE CANDLESTICK— According to Le Clerc and Houbigant, this should be _the bright candlestick,_ or _the candlestick of light._... [ Continue Reading ]
AND THE CLOTHES OF SERVICE— From Numbers 4:6 it appears, that _by the clothes of service_ are meant _the covering of blue_ for the _ark,_ &c. when the camp removed. Houbigant thinks, that hereby are meant all the curtains and coverings of the tabernacle, of whatever sort. REFLECTIONS.—The work was d... [ Continue Reading ]
VERILY, MY SABBATHS YE SHALL KEEP— As the precept of observing the sabbath has been so strongly enjoined before, it seems reasonable to conclude, that the repetition in this place has reference only to the workmen, and the work of the tabernacle; which, the Lord here informs them, is not to break in... [ Continue Reading ]
AND WAS REFRESHED— The original word signifies, primarily, _to respire, take breath,_ and so _to be refreshed;_ and can only be applied to, or understood of God, _more humano_ (_after the manner of men_), just as _resting_ is applied to him: see the note on Genesis 2:2 and it perhaps would be better... [ Continue Reading ]
TWO TABLES OF TESTIMONY— So named for the reason given, ch. Exodus 25:21. These tables were of _stone;_ and it was usual, in the most ancient times, to engrave laws on tables of marble, wood, brass, &c. The ten commandments upon these tables are said to have been _written with the finger of God:_ so... [ Continue Reading ]