Exo 23:21-22, Exo 39-40, Psa 119:6, Mat 28:20, Luk 1:6 | TSK | STEP | Beware of him. provoke him not. he will not. my name.

onyx stones.The meaning of the word {shoham} is not easily determined. It has been variously rendered a beryl, emerald, prasius, sapphire, sardius, ruby, carnelian, onyx, and sardonyx. It may signify both the onyx and sardonyx. The latter stone is a mixture of the chalcedony and carnelian, sometimes in strata, and at other times blended together, and is found striped with white and red strata, or layers. It is generally allowed that there is no real difference, except in hardness, between the carnelian, chalcedony, agate, sardonyx, and onyx. The onyx is of a darkish horny colour, resembling the nail or hoof, from which circumstance it has its name [(onyx).] It has often a plate of a blueish white or red in it, and when on one or both sides of this white there appears a plate of a reddish colour, the jewellers call the stone a sardonyx.

25:7; 28:9; 35:9; Job 28:16; Eze 28:13

ouches.{Mishbetzoth,} strait places, sockets, to insert the stones in, from {shavatz,} to straiten, enclose.

a memorial.

28:12,29; Jos 4:7; Ne 2:20; Mr 14:9,22-25

25:7; 28:4,13-29; Le 8:8,9; Ps 89:28; Isa 59:17; Eph 6:14

the first row.

28:16,17,21; Re 21:19-21

sardius. or, ruby.

a diamond.

28:18; Eze 28:13The word {yahalom} may mean the diamond, from {halam,} to beat, smite, because of its extreme hardness, by which it will beat to pieces the other stones. It is a fine pellucid substance never debased with any admixture of other matter; susceptible of elegant tinges from metal-line particles; giving fire with steel; not fermenting with acid menstrua; scarcely calcinable by any degree of fire; and of one simple and permanent appearance in all lights. It is the hardest and most valuable of all gems; when pure, perfectly clear and pellucid as the clearest water, and eminently distinguished from all other substances by its vivid splendour, and the brightness of its reflections.

a ligure.{Leshem,} the ligure, the same as the jacinth, or hyacinth, a precious stone of a deep red, with a considerable tinge of yellow. Theophrastus and Pliny say it resembles the carbuncle, of a brightness sparkling like fire.

an agate.{Shevo,} the agate, a semi-pellucid compound gem, formed of different simple minerals, as chalcedony, cornelian, jasper. horn-stone, quartz, amethyst, opal, etc.; joined irregularly or in layers. It is of a white, reddish, yellowish, or greenish ground; and so variously figured in its substance as to represent plants, trees, animals, and other objects.

an amethyst.{Achlamah,} an amethyst, a transparent gem, composed of a strong blue and deep red; and according as either prevails, affording different tinges of purple, sometimes approaching to violet, and sometimes even fading to a pale rose colour.

a beryl.Tarshish, a pellucid gem, of a sea or blueish green colour.

a jasper.{Yaspeh,} the jasper, a hard stone, of which there are not less than fifteen varieties of colour, as green, red, yellow, brown, black, etc.

Re 21:12

chains at the ends.

28:14; 2Ch 3:5; So 1:10; Joh 10:28; 17:12; 1Pe 1:5; Jude 1:1

gold rings.

25:12

two wreathen.

28:14; So 1:10

ephod.

coupling.

26:3

as the Lord.

Mt 16:24; 1Co 1:25,27

28:31-35

they made.

28:33

pomegranates.

Ga 5:22

bells.

28:33,34; Ps 89:15

the pomegranates.

So 4:13

pomegranate.

28:34; So 4:3,13; 6:7

hem.

De 22:12; Mt 9:20

coats.

28:39-42; Le 8:13; Isa 61:10; Eze 44:18; Ro 3:22; 13:14; Ga 3:27

Php 2:6-8; 1Pe 1:13

fine.The word {Shesh} seems rather to mean cotton, than either fine linen or silk; called also {butz,} and by the Greeks, [byssos,] and Romans, {byssus.}

a mitre.

28:4,39; Eze 44:18

linen.

28:42

breeches.{Michnasim,} from {kanas,} to wrap round.

a girdle.{Avnet,} a belt or girdle, of the same kind as the eastern sash, which confines the loose garments about the waist; and in which their long skirts are tucked up when at work or on a journey.

28:39

the plate.

26:36; 28:36-39; 1Co 1:30; 2Co 5:21; Heb 1:3; 7:26

HOLINESS.

28:36; Zec 14:20; Tit 2:14; Re 5:10

all the.

33,42; 25:1-31:18; 35:1-40:38; Le 8:1-9:24; Nu 3:25,26,31,36,37

Nu 4:4-32

according.

42,43; 25:40; 40:32; De 12:32; 1Sa 15:22; 1Ch 28:19; Mt 28:20

Heb 3:2; 8:5

the tent.

25:1-30:38; 31:7-11; 35:11-19; 36:1-40:38

the mercy seat.

25:17; Heb 9:5,8

the shewbread.

25:30; 1Ki 7:48

even with.

27:21; Mt 5:14-16; Php 2:15

sweet incense. Heb. the incense of sweet spice.

25:6; 30:7; 31:11; 35:8; 37:29; 2Ch 2:4

38:30; 1Ki 8:64

cloths.

1; 31:10

the holy.

28:2

according.

32; 23:21,22; 25:1-31:18; De 12:32; Mt 28:20; 2Ti 2:15; 4:7

made.

35:10

did look.

40:25; Ge 1:31; Ps 104:31

blessed them.

Ge 14:19; Le 9:22,23; Nu 6:23-27; Jos 22:6; 2Sa 6:18; 1Ki 8:14

1Ch 16:2; 2Ch 6:3; 30:27; Ne 11:2; Ps 19:11

Exodus 40

1 The tabernacle is commanded to be reared, anointed, and consecrated.

13 Aaron and his sons to be sanctified.

16 Moses performs all things accordingly.

34 A cloud covers the tabernacle.

the first month.

17; 12:1,2; 13:4; Nu 7:1

tabernacle.

6,18,19; 26:1,7,30; 27:21; 30:36; 35:11; 36:18

20,21; 25:10,22; 26:31,33,34; 35:12; 36:35,36; 37:1-9; Le 16:14

Nu 4:5; Re 11:19

the table.

22,25; 25:23-30; 26:35,36; 37:10-24

the things that, etc. Heb. the order thereof.

Le 24:5,6,8

the candlestick.

24,25; 25:31-39

the altar.

26,27; 30:1-5; 35:25-28; 37:25-28; Joh 14:6; Heb 9:24; 10:19-22

1Jo 2:1,2

put.

28; 26:36,37

29; 27:1-8; 38:1-7; Eph 1:6,7; Heb 13:10; 1Jo 2:2; 4:9,10

30-32; 30:18-21; 38:8; Ps 26:6; Zec 13:1; Tit 3:5; Heb 10:22; 1Jo 1:7

Re 1:5,6

the court.

33; 27:9-19; 38:9-20; Mt 16:18; 1Co 12:28; Eph 4:11,12

the anointing oil.

30:23-33; 37:29; 39:39; Le 8:10; Nu 7:1; Ps 45:7; Isa 11:2; 61:1

Mt 3:16; Joh 3:34; 2Co 1:4,22; 1Jo 2:20

sanctify.

29:36,37; Le 8:11; Isa 11:2; 61:1; Joh 3:34; 17:19

most holy. Heb. holiness of holiness.

Lu 1:35; 1Co 1:30; 2Co 5:21; Heb 7:26

29:1-35; Le 8:1-13; 9:1-24; Isa 11:1-5; 61:1-3; Mt 3:16; Lu 1:35

Joh 3:34; Ro 8:3; Ga 4:4

anoint him.

28:41; Isa 61:1; Joh 3:34; 17:19; Heb 10:10,29; 1Jo 2:20,27

Isa 44:3-5; 61:10; Joh 1:16; Ro 8:30; 13:14; 1Co 1:9,30

everlasting.

12:14; 30:31,33; Nu 25:13; Ps 110:4; Heb 5:1-14; 7:3,7,17-24

Heb 8:1-10:39

according.

17-32; 23:21,22; 39:42,43; De 4:1; 12:32; Isa 8:20; Mt 28:20

1Co 4:2

the first month.

1,2; Nu 7:1; 9:1

reared.

2; 26:15-30; 36:20-34; Le 26:11; Eze 37:27,28; Joh 1:14; Ga 4:4

1Pe 1:5; Re 21:3

and fastened.

Isa 33:24; Mt 16:18; 1Ti 3:15

the tent.

26:1-14; 36:8-19

the testimony.

16:34; 25:16-21; 31:18; Ps 40:8; Mt 3:15

mercy.

3; 37:6-9; Ro 3:25; 10:4; Heb 4:16; 10:19-21; 1Jo 2:2

he brought.

and covered.

he put.

northward.

4; 25:30; Mt 12:4; Heb 9:2

25:31-35; 37:17-24; Ps 119:105; Joh 1:1,5,9; 8:12; Re 1:20; 2:5

4; 25:37; Re 4:5

5; 30:1-10; Mt 23:19; Joh 11:42; 17:1-26; Heb 7:25; 10:1; 1Jo 2:1

30:7

5; 26:36,37; 38:9-19; Joh 14:6; 10:9; Eph 2:18; Heb 10:19,20

the altar.

6; 27:1-8; 38:1-7; Mt 23:19; Ro 3:24-26; Heb 9:12; 13:5,6,10

offered.

29:38-46

7; 30:18-21; 38:8; Eze 36:25; Heb 10:22

washed.

Ps 26:6; 51:6,7; Joh 13:10; 1Jo 1:7,9

as the Lord.

19; 30:19,20; Ps 73:19

up the court.

8; 27:9-16; Nu 1:50; Mt 16:8; 1Co 12:12,28; Eph 4:11-13; Heb 9:6,7

the tabernacle.The tabernacle might either be called a house or a tent, because it had wooden walls and partitions like a house, and curtains and hangings like a tent; but as it externally resembled a common oblong tent, and the wooden walls were without a roof, and properly only supports for the many curtains and hangings spread over them, it is more properly called a tent. Even the ordinary tents of the Arabs have at least two main divisions; the innermost for the women, and hence called sacred, i.e., cut off, inaccessible. In the tent of an {emir} the innermost space is accessible to himself only, or those whom he particularly honours; into the outer tent others may come. The furniture is costly, the floor covered with a rich carpet, and has a stand with a censer and coals, on which incense is strewed. Hence we have the simple idea after which this magnificent royal tent of Jehovah, the King and God of the Hebrews, was made.

hanging.

Joh 10:9; 14:6; Eph 2:18; Heb 4:14-16

So Moses.

39:32; 1Ki 6:9; Zec 4:9; Joh 4:34; 17:4; 2Ti 4:7; Heb 3:2-5

a cloud.

13:21,22; 14:19,20,24; 25:8,21,22; 29:43; 33:9; Le 16:2

Nu 9:15-23; 1Ki 8:10,11; 2Ch 5:13; 7:2; Ps 18:10-12; Isa 4:5,6

Isa 6:4; Eze 43:4-7; Hag 2:7,9; Re 15:8; 21:3,23,24

Le 16:2; 1Ki 8:11; 2Ch 5:14; 7:2; Isa 6:4; Re 15:8

when.

13:21,22; Nu 10:11-13,33-36; 19:17-22; Ne 9:19; Ps 78:14; 105:39

1Co 10:1; 2Co 5:19,20

went onward. Heb. journeyed.

Nu 9:19-22; Ps 31:15

the cloud.

13:21; Nu 9:15

fire.

Ps 78:14; 105:39; Isa 4:5,6 CONCLUDING REMARKS. Moses was undoubtedly the author of this Book, which forms a continuation of the preceding, and was evidently written after the promulgation of the law: it embraces the history of about 145 years. Moses, having in the Book of Genesis described the creation of the world, the origin of nations, and the peopling of the earth, details in the Book of Exodus the commencement and nature of the Jewish Church and Polity, which has very properly been termed a Theocracy, (Theokratia, from [Theos ,] God, and [krateó ,] to rule,) in which Jehovah appears not merely as their Creator and God, but as their King. Hence this and the following books of Moses are not purely historical; but contain not only laws for the regulation of their moral conduct and the rites and ceremonies of their religious worship, but judicial and political laws relating to government and civl life. The stupendous facts connected with these events, may be clearly perceived by consulting the marginal references; and many of the circumstances are confirmed by the testimony of heathen writers. Numenius, a Pythagorean philosopher, mentioned by Eusebius, speaks of the opposition of the magicians, whom he calls Jannes and Jambres, to the miracles of Moses. Though the names of these magicians are not preserved in the Sacred Text, yet tradition had preserved them in the Jewish records, from which St. Paul (2 Ti 3:8.) undoubtedly quotes. Add to this that many of the notions of the heathen respecting the appearance of the Deity, and their religious institutions and laws, were borrowed from this book; and many of their fables were nothing more than distorted traditions of those events which are here plainly related by Moses.

Psalms 119:6

shall I.

31,80; Job 22:26; Da 12:2,3; 1Jo 2:28; 3:20,21

I have.

128; Joh 15:14; Jas 2:10

Matthew 28:20

them.

7:24-27; De 5:32; 12:32; Ac 2:42; 20:20,21,27; 1Co 11:2,23; 14:37

Eph 4:11-17,20-32

Col 1:28; 1Th 4:1,2; 2Th 3:6-12; 1Ti 6:1-4; Tit 2:1-10; 1Pe 2:10-19

2Pe 1:5-11; 3:2; 1Jo 2:3,4; 3:19-24; Re 22:14

I am.

1:23; 18:20; Ge 39:2,3,21; Ex 3:12; Jos 1:5; Ps 46:7,11; Isa 8:8-10

Isa 41:10; Mr 16:20; Joh 14:18-23; Ac 18:9,10; 2Ti 4:17; Re 22:21

unto.

13:39,40,49; 24:3

Amen.

6:13; 1Ki 1:36; 1Ch 16:36; Ps 72:19; Re 1:18; 22:20 CONCLUDING REMARKS ON MATTHEW'S GOSPEL. Matthew being one of the twelve apostles, and early called to the apostleship, and from the time of his call a constant attendant on our Saviour, was perfectly well qualified to write fully the history of his life. He relates what he saw and heard. "He is eminently distinguished for the distinctness and particularity with which he has related many of our Lord's discourses and moral instructions. Of these his sermon on the mount, his charge to the apostles, his illustrations of the nature of his kingdom, and his prophecy on mount Olivet, are examples. He has also wonderfully united simplicity and energy in relating the replies of his Master to the cavils of his adversaries." "There is not," as Dr. A. Clarke justly remarks, "one truth or doctrine, in the whole oracles of God, which is not taught in this Evangelist. The outlines of the whole spiritual system are here correctly laid down: even Paul himself has added nothing: he has amplified and illustrated the truths contained in this Gospel;--under the inspiration of the Holy Ghost, neither he, nor any of the other apostles, have brought to light one truth, the prototype of which has not been found in the words and acts of our blessed Lord as related by Matthew."

Luke 1:6

righteous.

16:15; Ge 6:9; 7:1; 17:1; Job 1:1,8; 9:2; Ro 3:9-25; Php 3:6-9

Tit 3:3-7

walking.

1Ki 9:4; 2Ki 20:3; Ps 119:6; Ac 23:1; 24:16; 1Co 11:2; 2Co 1:12

Php 3:6; Tit 2:11-14; 1Jo 2:3,29; 3:7

blameless.

Php 2:15; Col 1:22; 1Th 3:13; 2Pe 3:14