And he made the altar of burnt offering of shittim wood: five cubits was the length thereof, and five cubits the breadth thereof; it was foursquare; and three cubits the height thereof.
the altar. This altar consisted of four boards of shittim (acacia) wood, covered with brass, and hollow in the middle; but it is supposed to have been filled up with earth when used, for it is expressly said that the altar is to be of earth. As it was five cubits long and five cubits broad, and three cubits high, if the cubit be reckoned at
Exodus 27:1-8 And you shall make an altar of shittim wood, five cubits long, and …
Exodus 40:6,29 And you shall set the altar of the burnt offering before the door …
2 Chronicles 4:1 Moreover he made an altar of brass, twenty cubits the length thereof, …
Ezekiel 43:13-17 And these are the measures of the altar after the cubits: The cubit …
Romans 8:3,4 For what the law could not do, in that it was weak through the flesh, …
Romans 12:1 I beseech you therefore, brothers, by the mercies of God, that you …
Hebrews 3:1 Why, holy brothers, partakers of the heavenly calling, consider the …
Hebrews 9:14 How much more shall the blood of Christ, who through the eternal …
Hebrews 13:10 We have an altar, whereof they have no right to eat which serve the tabernacle.
1 Peter 2:5 You also, as lively stones, are built up a spiritual house, an holy …
foursquare and three cubits the height thereof
Ezekiel 43:16 And the altar shall be twelve cubits long, twelve broad, square in …
John 6:37 All that the Father gives me shall come to me; and him that comes …
Hebrews 13:8 Jesus Christ the same yesterday, and to day, and for ever.
Revelation 21:16 And the city lies foursquare, and the length is as large as the breadth: …
And he made the horns thereof on the four corners of it; the horns thereof were of the same: and he overlaid it with brass.
And he made all the vessels of the altar, the pots, and the shovels, and the basons, and the fleshhooks, and the firepans: all the vessels thereof made he of brass.
And he made for the altar a brasen grate of network under the compass thereof beneath unto the midst of it.
And he cast four rings for the four ends of the grate of brass, to be places for the staves.
And he made the staves of shittim wood, and overlaid them with brass.
And he put the staves into the rings on the sides of the altar, to bear it withal; he made the altar hollow with boards.
And he made the laver of brass, and the foot of it of brass, of the lookingglasses of the women assembling, which assembled at the door of the tabernacle of the congregation.
the laver
Exodus 30:18-21 You shall also make a laver of brass, and his foot also of brass, …
Exodus 40:7,30-32 And you shall set the laver between the tent of the congregation …
1 Kings 7:23-26,38 And he made a molten sea, ten cubits from the one brim to the other: …
Psalm 26:6 I will wash my hands in innocence: so will I compass your altar, O LORD:
Zechariah 13:1 In that day there shall be a fountain opened to the house of David …
John 13:10 Jesus said to him, He that is washed needs not save to wash his feet, …
Titus 3:5,6 Not by works of righteousness which we have done, but according to …
Hebrews 9:10 Which stood only in meats and drinks, and divers washings, and carnal …
1 John 3:7 Little children, let no man deceive you: he that does righteousness …
Revelation 1:5 And from Jesus Christ, who is the faithful witness, and the first …
looking glasses. or, brazen glasses. The word maroth, from raah, to see, denotes reflectors, or mirrors, of any kind. That these could not have been looking glasses, as in our translation, is sufficiently evident, not only from the glass not being then in use, but also from the impossibility of making the brazen laver of such materials. The first mirrors known among men, were the clear fountain and unruffled lake. The first artificial ones were made of polished brass, afterwards of steel, and when luxury increased, of silver; but at a very early period, they were made of a mixed metal, particularly of tin and copper, the best of which as Pliny informs us, were formerly manufactured at Brundusium. When the Egyptians went to their temples, according to Cyril, they always carried their mirrors with them. The Israelitish women probably did the same; and Dr. Shaw says, that looking-glasses are still part of the dress of Moorish women, who carry them constantly hung at their breasts. Assembling. Heb. assembling by troops. It is supposed that these women kept watch during the night. Among the ancients, women were generally employed as door-keepers.
1 Samuel 2:22 Now Eli was very old, and heard all that his sons did to all Israel…
Proverbs 8:34 Blessed is the man that hears me, watching daily at my gates, waiting …
Matthew 26:69 Now Peter sat without in the palace: and a damsel came to him, saying, …
Luke 2:37 And she was a widow of about fourscore and four years, which departed …
John 18:16 But Peter stood at the door without. Then went out that other disciple, …
1 Timothy 5:5 Now she that is a widow indeed, and desolate, trusts in God, and …
And he made the court: on the south side southward the hangings of the court were of fine twined linen, an hundred cubits:
Their pillars were twenty, and their brasen sockets twenty; the hooks of the pillars and their fillets were of silver.
And for the north side the hangings were an hundred cubits, their pillars were twenty, and their sockets of brass twenty; the hooks of the pillars and their fillets of silver.
And for the west side were hangings of fifty cubits, their pillars ten, and their sockets ten; the hooks of the pillars and their fillets of silver.
And for the east side eastward fifty cubits.
The hangings of the one side of the gate were fifteen cubits; their pillars three, and their sockets three.
And for the other side of the court gate, on this hand and that hand, were hangings of fifteen cubits; their pillars three, and their sockets three.
All the hangings of the court round about were of fine twined linen.
And the sockets for the pillars were of brass; the hooks of the pillars and their fillets of silver; and the overlaying of their chapiters of silver; and all the pillars of the court were filleted with silver.
And the hanging for the gate of the court was needlework, of blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen: and twenty cubits was the length, and the height in the breadth was five cubits, answerable to the hangings of the court.
And their pillars were four, and their sockets of brass four; their hooks of silver, and the overlaying of their chapiters and their fillets of silver.
And all the pins of the tabernacle, and of the court round about, were of brass.
This is the sum of the tabernacle, even of the tabernacle of testimony, as it was counted, according to the commandment of Moses, for the service of the Levites, by the hand of Ithamar, son to Aaron the priest.
Tabernacle of. The word tabernacle is used in many different senses, and signifies, a tent or pavilion.
Numbers 24:5 How goodly are your tents, O Jacob, and your tabernacles, O Israel!
Matthew 17:4 Then answered Peter, and said to Jesus, Lord, it is good for us to …
a house or dwelling
Job 11:4 For you have said, My doctrine is pure, and I am clean in your eyes.
Job 22:23 If you return to the Almighty, you shall be built up, you shall put …
a kind of tent, which is designated, to speak after the manner of the men, the palace of the Most High, the dwelling of the God of Israel
Exodus 26:1 Moreover you shall make the tabernacle with ten curtains of fine …
Hebrews 9:2,3 For there was a tabernacle made; the first, wherein was the candlestick, …
Christ's human nature, of which the Jewish tabernacle was a type, wherein God dwells really, substantially, and personally
Hebrews 8:2 A minister of the sanctuary, and of the true tabernacle, which the …
Hebrews 9:11 But Christ being come an high priest of good things to come, by a …
the true church militant
Psalm 15:1 Lord, who shall abide in your tabernacle? who shall dwell in your holy hill?
our natural body in which the soul lodges as in a tabernacle
2 Corinthians 5:1 For we know that if our earthly house of this tabernacle were dissolved, …
2 Peter 1:13 Yes, I think it meet, as long as I am in this tabernacle, to stir …
the token of God's gracious presence
Revelation 21:3 And I heard a great voice out of heaven saying, Behold, the tabernacle …
Numbers 1:50,53 But you shall appoint the Levites over the tabernacle of testimony, …
Numbers 9:15 And on the day that the tabernacle was reared up the cloud covered …
Numbers 10:11 And it came to pass on the twentieth day of the second month, in …
Numbers 17:7,8 And Moses laid up the rods before the LORD in the tabernacle of witness…
Numbers 18:2 And your brothers also of the tribe of Levi, the tribe of your father, …
2 Chronicles 24:6 And the king called for Jehoiada the chief, and said to him…
Acts 7:44 Our fathers had the tabernacle of witness in the wilderness, as he …
Revelation 11:19 And the temple of God was opened in heaven, and there was seen in …
by the hand
Numbers 4:28-33 This is the service of the families of the sons of Gershon in the …
Ezra 8:26-30 I even weighed to their hand six hundred and fifty talents of silver, …
Ithamar
Exodus 6:23 And Aaron took him Elisheba, daughter of Amminadab, sister of Naashon, …
1 Chronicles 6:3 And the children of Amram; Aaron, and Moses, and Miriam. The sons …
And Bezaleel the son of Uri, the son of Hur, of the tribe of Judah, made all that the LORD commanded Moses.
Bezaleel
Exodus 31:1-5 And the LORD spoke to Moses, saying…
Exodus 35:30-35 And Moses said to the children of Israel, See, the LORD has called …
Exodus 36:1-3 Then worked Bezaleel and Aholiab, and every wise hearted man…
The supernatural qualifications of Bezaleel and Aholiab proved their divine appointment; yet they had an express nomination to their work; they were also miraculously qualified to instruct their assistants, as well as to superintend them. Christ alone builds the Temple of the Lord, and bears the glory; but ministers and private Christians, under his direction and by his grace, may be fellow-workers together with him. They who, in mean employments, are diligent and humbly contented, are equally acceptable with those who are engaged in more splendid services. The women who spun the goats' hair were wise-hearted, as well as the persons who presided over the work of the tabernacle, or as Aaron, who burnt incense there, because they did it heartily unto the Lord. Our wisdom and duty consist in giving God the glory and use of our talents, be they more or less; neither abusing nor burying them, but occupying with them until our Lord shall come; being satisfied that it is better to be a door-keeper in his service, than the most mighty and renowned of the ungodly.--Scott
all that the Lord
Psalm 119:6 Then shall I not be ashamed, when I have respect to all your commandments.
Jeremiah 1:7 But the LORD said to me, Say not, I am a child: for you shall go …
Matthew 28:20 Teaching them to observe all things whatever I have commanded you: …
And with him was Aholiab, son of Ahisamach, of the tribe of Dan, an engraver, and a cunning workman, and an embroiderer in blue, and in purple, and in scarlet, and fine linen.
All the gold that was occupied for the work in all the work of the holy place, even the gold of the offering, was twenty and nine talents, and seven hundred and thirty shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary.
all the gold. If we follow the estimation of the learned Dean Prideaux, the value of the twenty-nine talents, and
1 Chronicles 22:14-16 Now, behold, in my trouble I have prepared for the house of the LORD …
1 Chronicles 29:2-7 Now I have prepared with all my might for the house of my God the …
Haggai 2:8 The silver is mine, and the gold is mine, said the LORD of hosts.
offering
Exodus 25:2 Speak to the children of Israel, that they bring me an offering…
Exodus 29:24 And you shall put all in the hands of Aaron, and in the hands of …
Exodus 35:22 And they came, both men and women, as many as were willing hearted, …
the shekel
Exodus 30:13,14,24 This they shall give, every one that passes among them that are numbered, …
Leviticus 5:15 If a soul commit a trespass, and sin through ignorance, in the holy …
Leviticus 27:3,25 And your estimation shall be of the male from twenty years old even …
Numbers 3:47 You shall even take five shekels apiece by the poll, after the shekel …
Numbers 18:16 And those that are to be redeemed from a month old shall you redeem, …
And the silver of them that were numbered of the congregation was an hundred talents, and a thousand seven hundred and threescore and fifteen shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary:
A bekah for every man, that is, half a shekel, after the shekel of the sanctuary, for every one that went to be numbered, from twenty years old and upward, for six hundred thousand and three thousand and five hundred and fifty men.
And of the hundred talents of silver were cast the sockets of the sanctuary, and the sockets of the vail; an hundred sockets of the hundred talents, a talent for a socket.
And of the thousand seven hundred seventy and five shekels he made hooks for the pillars, and overlaid their chapiters, and filleted them.
And the brass of the offering was seventy talents, and two thousand and four hundred shekels.
And therewith he made the sockets to the door of the tabernacle of the congregation, and the brasen altar, and the brasen grate for it, and all the vessels of the altar,
And the sockets of the court round about, and the sockets of the court gate, and all the pins of the tabernacle, and all the pins of the court round about.
