CONTENTS This Chapter opens with Moses' commission, concerning the tabernacle, and its furniture, agreeably to the instructions he had received of the Lord in the Mount. After pointing out to the people again the ordinance of the Sabbath, he calls their attention to the order of the Lord for erecti... [ Continue Reading ]
The introduction of the precept here concerning the Sabbath, before the introduction of the precept concerning the building of the tabernacle, seems to have been made with this design, to intimate, that even the erecting an house for the worship of the Lord, must not be done on the Lord's day. See t... [ Continue Reading ]
Psalms 110:3; 2 Corinthians 9:7; 2 Corinthians 9:7.... [ Continue Reading ]
Perhaps it means blue wool. Exodus 26:1.... [ Continue Reading ]
1 Peter 4:10.... [ Continue Reading ]
These precepts are beautiful duplicates of what were delivered to Moses in the mount. See Exo_28:5-28; Exo_25:10, etc.... [ Continue Reading ]
What is here said of the departure of the congregation, means, that they went away with hearts disposed to the service. Deuteronomy 5:28.... [ Continue Reading ]
Judges 5:9.... [ Continue Reading ]
Proverbs 3:9.... [ Continue Reading ]
1Ch_29:3; 1Ch_29:6; 1Ch_29:9. Upon all these verses one general observation seems to meet us; that where the Lord makes a soul willing, there the Lord accepts and blesses the gift. Haggai 2:8; Luke 21:3. The labour of the women is particularly noticed with honourable respect. See also in the gospel,... [ Continue Reading ]
Were not these builders of the tabernacle, so especially called, appointed, and qualified, to the work, types of the laborers in the New Testament Church? Eph_2:20; Eph_1:17-18.... [ Continue Reading ]
REFLECTIONS Who can meditate on the grace of God, in thus furnishing his servants for the work of the sanctuary, and giving the congregation such a willing mind to make contributions to the building, without being struck with the conviction, that in the spiritual building it must be the same Almigh... [ Continue Reading ]