Exo 26:15-29, 32, 37, 27:9-19, 35:11, 18, 36:20-34, 36, Num 4:29-33, 7:8 | TSK | STEP

their hooks shall be of gold.The Hebrew {waveyhem,} which we translate their hooks, is rendered by the LXX. [kephalides,] and by the Vulgate, {capiata,} capitals. Hence Calmet contends, 1. That if Moses does not mean the capitals of the pillars by this word, he mentions them nowhere else; and it would seem strange, that while he describes them with so much exactness, that he should not mention the capitals; or that pillars every way so correctly formed, should have been destitute of this necessary ornament. 2. As Moses was commanded to make the {wavim} of the pillars, and their fillets, of silver, (ch. 27:10, 11,) and the {wavim} of the pillars of the vail of gold, (ch. 36:36,) and that 1,775 shekels were employed in making them, overlaying their chapiters, {rasheyhem,} their heads, and filleting them, (ch. 38:28,) it is more reasonable to suppose that all this is spoken of the capitals of pillars, than of any kind of hooks, especially as hooks are mentioned under the word taches or clasps. But as the root {wavah} seems to signify to connect, (for [wwy,] in Arabic, is to marry a wife,) and as the letter [ww,] {wav,} if it has not its name from its hook-like form, is yet used as a connective particle, it would rather appear to denote hooks, which connected the curtains or vails to the pillars. The LXX. also render it [agkulai,] "handles", and [krikoi,] "rings" or "clasps".

Exodus 26:37

overlay them with gold.

36:38

Exodus 27:9-19

the court.

38:9-20; 40:8; 1Ki 6:36; 8:64; 2Ch 33:5; Ps 84:10; 92:13; 100:4

Ps 116:19; Eze 40:14,20,23,28,32,44; 42:3,19,20; 46:20-24

hangings for.

26:31-37; 36:17; 39:40

sockets shall be of brass.

26:19-21

fillets shall be of silver.

36:38; Jer 52:21

hangings of one side.

9; 26:36

of blue.

26:31,36

needle-work.

28:39; 36:37; 39:29; Jud 5:30; Ps 45:14

length of the court.

9-12

fifty every where. Heb. fifty by fifty.

all the pins thereof.

3; 35:18; 38:20,31; 39:40; Nu 3:37; 4:32; Ezr 9:8; Ec 12:11

Isa 22:23-25; 33:20; Zec 10:4

Exodus 35:11

tabernacle.

26:1,2-37; 31:7-9; 36:8-34

taches.{Keraism,} from {karas,} to bend, so called from their curved form; hooks, clasps, or any thing used for the purpose of fastening: the word taches is formed by aphæresis from the French attacher, to fasten. They were equivalent, perhaps, to our hooks-and-eyes.

Exodus 35:18

The pins.These, as Dr. Wall observes, were not particularly mentioned. Josephus says, that to every board of the tabernacle, and to every pillar of the hangings of the court, there were ropes or cords, fastened at the top of the board or pillar, and that the other end of the rope was fastened to a [passalos,] a nail, or pin, which, at a good distance off, was driven into the ground up to the head, a cubit deep. This was to keep the tabernacle from being blown down by the wind. Dr. Shaw, describing the tents of the Bedouins, says, "These tents are kept firm and steady by bracing or stretching down their eaves with cords tied to wooden hooked pins, well pointed, which they drive into the ground with a mallet; one of these pins answering to the nail, as the mallet does to the hammer, which Jael used in fastening to the ground the temples of Sisera." (Jud 4:21.)

27:19

Exodus 36:20-34

boards.

26:15-25; 40:18,19

shittim wood.

25:5,10; Nu 25:1; De 10:3

The length.Each of these boards, taking the cubit at nearly twenty-two inches, was about eighteen feet long, and two feet nine inches broad. As these boards are said to be standing up (ver. 20,) their length was consequently the height of the tabernacle; and as the two sides were composed of twenty of these, standing up (ver. 23, 25,) and the west end of six, with two boards to project at the corners, (ver. 27, 28,) the tabernacle must therefore, have been thirty cubits, or fifty-five feet long, and about ten cubits, or eighteen feet broad. These boards were fastened at the bottom by two tenons in each board, which fitted into two mortices in the foundation, at the top by links or hasps, and on the sides by five wooden bars, which ran through rings or staples in each of the boards. The boards and bars were all overlaid with gold; and their rings for the staves, and their hasps at top, were of the same metal. The foundation on which they stood consisted of about ninety-six solid blocks of silver, two under each board, about eighteen inches long, and of a suitable thickness; and each weighing a talent, or about a hundred weight. Four blocks of silver formed the bases of the columns which supported the curtain that divided the inside of the tabernacle into two rooms.

westward.

26:22,27

coupled. Heb. twined.

26:24; Ps 122:3; 133:1; Ac 2:46; 4:32; 1Co 1:10; 12:13; 2Co 1:10

Eph 2:15,19,21; 3:18,19; 4:2-6,15,16

under every board two sockets. Heb. two sockets, twosockets, under one board.

26:25

25:28; 26:26-29; 30:5

the tabernacle.

26:26

Exodus 36:36

Jer 1:18

Numbers 4:29-33

3:33-35

service. Heb. warfare.

3,23; Ps 110:1-7; 1Ti 6:11,12; 2Ti 2:4; 4:7,8

the charge.

3:36,37; 7:8,9

the boards.

Ex 26:15

and by name.An inventory was taken of every particular, even to the very pins belonging to each part, that nothing might be wanting when the tabernacle was set up.

the instruments.

3:8; 7:1; Ex 25:9; 38:17,21; 1Ch 9:29

under the hand.

28; Jos 3:6; Isa 3:6

Numbers 7:8

four wagons.

3:36,37; 4:28-33

the sons.Though the Merarites were the most numerous, yet they had the greatest burden, namely, the boards, bars, pillars, and sockets, to carry, (ch. 4:31, 32, 48.) Therefore they had double the number of waggons to what the Gershonites had assigned them.