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Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Exodus 25:39

Of a talent of pure gold. — There are various estimates of the value and weight of the Hebrew gold talent, but none of them places it much below £4,000 of our money. Some carry the estimate as high as £10,000 or £11,000.

Shall he make it. — “He” refers to the artificer by whom the candlestick would be constructed.

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See also Exodus 25:39 in other biblical comments:

  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    Verse Exodus 25:39. _OF A TALENT OF PURE GOLD SHALL HE MAKE IT, WITH ALL_ _THESE VESSELS._] That is, a talent of gold in weight was used in making the candlestick, and the different vessels and instr...

  • 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

    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....

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    _a talent_ probably (_DB._iv. 903 b, 906 a) 673, 500 grs. = _c._96 lb. avoirdupois, worth, at the present value of gold, _c._£5460....

  • Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

    A TALENT OF PURE GOLD— A talent was 3000 shekels, as may be collected by halving the number of the Israelites, (because each brought half a shekel,) which half is 301,775, and is the sum of the shekel...

  • 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

    _OF A TALENT OF PURE GOLD SHALL HE MAKE IT, WITH ALL THESE VESSELS._ A TALENT OF PURE GOLD - in weight equal to 114 lbs., and in value to 7,013 pound sterling. It must have been a magnificent work of...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    A talent of gold is estimated at about £6,000 of our money: see on Exodus 38:24....

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    כִּכָּ֛ר זָהָ֥ב טָהֹ֖ור יַעֲשֶׂ֣ה אֹתָ֑הּ אֵ֥ת...

  • 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

    [Of] a (k) talent of pure gold shall he make it, with all these vessels. (k) This was the talent weight of the temple, and weighed 120 pounds....

  • 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 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

    OF A TALENT OF PURE GOLD SHALL HE MAKE IT, WITH ALL THESE VESSELS. The common talent weighed sixty pounds, but the sacred talent was double, and weighed one hundred and twenty pounds, as says Jarchi,...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    Exodus 25:39 [Of] a talent of pure gold shall he make it, with all these vessels. Ver. 39. _Of a talent of pure gold,_] i.e., Of a hundred and twenty pounds' weight....

  • 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

    of a talent of pure gold shall he make it, the artisan entrusted with the work, WITH ALL THESE VESSELS. It was a costly and heavy candlestick, for a talent is about 118 pounds Troy....

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    THE CANDLESTICK AND THE HOLY VESSELS...

  • 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

    A talent contains three thousand shekels, EXO 38 25, or one hundred and twenty-five pounds....

  • 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 25:39 made H6213 (H8799) talent H3603 pure H2889 gold H2091 utensils H3627 talent - Exo

  • 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...

  • 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 ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    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...

  • 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...

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