Geneva Study Bible Commentary
Exodus 25:5
And rams' skins dyed red, and badgers' skins, and (c) shittim wood,
(c) Which is thought to be a kindred of Cedar, which will not rot.
And rams' skins dyed red, and badgers' skins, and (c) shittim wood,
(c) Which is thought to be a kindred of Cedar, which will not rot.
Verse Exodus 25:5. _RAMS' SKINS DYED RED_] ערת אילם מאדמים _oroth eylim_ _meoddamim_, literally, _the skins of red rams_. It is a fact attested by many respectable travellers, that in the Levant shee...
Yahweh had redeemed the Israelites from bondage. He had made a covenant with them and had given them laws. He had promised, on condition of their obedience, to accept them as His own “peculiar treasur...
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.
EXODUS 25-31. P THE TENT OF MEETING OR DWELLING OF YAHWEH. To pass from the action and movement, and the jostling of old and new, in Exodus 25:19 into the group of Chapter s 25- 31 is like passing fro...
SHITTIM. acacia....
Skins and wood. _rams" skins dyed red_ These formed the second covering over the certains (Exodus 26:14). _sealskins_ Heb. -skins of _tĕḥâshim_," a word of uncertain meaning. In Arab. _tuḥas_or _duḥa...
_Contribution of materials for a sanctuary_(cf. Exodus 35:20-29). All liberally-minded Israelites are invited to contribute the materials necessary for the construction and equipment of a sanctuary it...
RAMS' SKINS DYED RED, AND BADGERS' SKINS— A badger being an unclean animal according to the law, Bochart, after several of the best interpreters, insists that the passage should be rendered, _rams' sk...
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...
_AND RAMS' SKINS DYED RED, AND BADGERS' SKINS, AND SHITTIM WOOD,_ Rams' skins dyed red - red morocco leather (see the processes of tanning and dyeing leather among the ancient Egyptians described, Wi...
25:5 skins; (c-8) Or 'seals' skins.' so chs. 26.14; 35.7,23....
RAMS' SKINS DYED RED] red leather made of sheep skins. BADGERS' SKINS] RV 'sealskins,' RM 'porpoise-skins.' SHITTIM WOOD] RV 'acacia wood. 'The acacia (Heb. _shittah_, plur. _shittim_) is the characte...
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...
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...
RAMS’ SKINS DYED RED. — North Africa has always been celebrated for the production of the best possible leather. Herodotus describes the manufacture of his own times (_Hist. iv._ 189). Even at the pre...
וְ עֹרֹ֨ת אֵילִ֧ם מְאָדָּמִ֛ים וְ עֹרֹ֥ת תְּח
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...
MOSES SHOWN GOD'S PLAN FOR THE TABERNACLE Exodus 24:12; Exodus 25:1 There were four concentric circles, so to speak, represented as gathered around the burning center of the Divine Presence. In the o...
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...
_Setim-wood. The wood of a tree that grows in the wilderness, which is said to be incorruptible, (Challoner) as the Septuagint intimate. It is perhaps the Acacia, which is very black and hard. St. Jer...
Perhaps the things here particularized, beside their first use, had a spiritual allusion. See Revelation 3:18....
"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...
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...
AND RAMS' SKINS DIED RED,.... Of these were made a covering for the tent or tabernacle: AND BADGERS' SKINS, which were for the same use: the Septuagint version calls them hyacinth or blue skins; acco...
And rams' skins dyed red, and badgers' skins, and shittim wood, Ver. 5. _Shittim wood._] A kind of cedar that rotteth not....
_Blue, and purple, and scarlet_ Materials of those colours. _Shittim-wood_ A kind of wood growing in Egypt and the deserts of Arabia, very durable and precious....
[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...
and rams' skins dyed red, and badgers' skins, probably the skins of a marine animal found in the Red Sea, which were used both for sandal-leather and for tent coverings, AND SHITTIM WOOD, that of the...
OFFERINGS OF THE ISRAELITES REQUESTED...
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...
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...
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...
1-9 God chose the people of Israel to be a peculiar people to himself, above all people, and he himself would be their King. He ordered a royal palace to be set up among them for himself, called a sa...
A kind of wood growing in Egypt and the deserts of Arabia, very durable and precious. See EXODUS 35:24 NUMBERS 33:49 ISAIAH 41:19 JOEL 3:18....
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...
Exodus 25:5 ram H352 skins H5785 red H119 (H8794) badger H8476 skins H5785 acacia H7848 wood H6086 shittim
PROVISION FOR MAKING THE DWELLINGPLACE: THE PEOPLE CALLED ON TO MAKE THEIR OFFERINGS (EXODUS 25:1). We may analyse this passage as follows: a The children of Israel to be called on to make an offeri...
SHITTIM WOOD That is, acacia....
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...
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...
_Make Me a sanctuary: _ GOD DWELLING WITH MEN I. The dwelling of God among us in Christ Jesus, when it is a reality, and not merely an idea or a phrase, imports and of necessity secures the passing...
EXODUS 25:1 Instructions for the Tabernacle. The instructions for the tabernacle (Exodus 25:1) and the description of those instructions being carried out ...
CRITICAL NOTES.— Exodus 25:2. An offering.] Trumah, from the root _rom_, “that which is taken off,” from what has been put by as private property reserved for special enjoyment. Hence the injunction,...
INSTRUCTIONS CONCERNING THE TABERNACLE AND ITS FURNITURE, INCLUDING THE PRIESTLY ATTIRE. EXPOSITION THE TABERNACLE AND THE GIFTS FOR IT. The great principles of t
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...
Exodus 26:14 shittim wood Exodus 26:15 Exodus 26:26 Exodus 26:37 Exodus 27:1
Shittim — wood — A kind of wood growing in Egypt and the deserts of Arabia, very durable and precious....