Exo 26:1-14, 40:21, 2Sa 6:17, 1Ch 16:1, 2Ch 1:4 | TSK | STEP | The ten curtains of the tabernacle. The eleven curtains of goats' hair, and the covering of rams' and badgers' skins. The boards of the tabernacle, with their sockets and bars. The vail for the ark. The hanging for the door. the tabernacle with ten curtains.The word {mishcan,} from {shachan,} to dwell, means simply a dwelling-place, or habitation. "When God had brought the children of Israel out of Egypt," says the very learned Dr. Cudworth, "resolving to manifest himself in a peculiar manner present among them, he thought good to dwell amongst them in a visible and external manner; and therefore, while they were in the wilderness, and sojourned in tents, he would have a tent or tabernacle built, to sojourn with them also.--Now, the tabernacle being thus a house for God to dwell in visibly, to make up the notion of dwelling or habitation complete, there must be all things suitable to a house belonging to it. Hence, in the holy place, there must be a table and a candlestick, because these were the ordinary furniture of a room. The table must have its dishes, and spoons, and bowls, and covers, belonging to it, though they were never used; and always be furnished with bread upon it. The candlestick must have its lamps continually burning, etc." fine twined linen. cherubims. cunning work. Heb. the work of a cunning workman, orembroiderer.

Exodus 26:1-14

1 The ten curtains of the tabernacle.

7 The eleven curtains of goats' hair, and the covering of rams' and badgers' skins.

15 The boards of the tabernacle, with their sockets and bars.

31 The vail for the ark.

36 The hanging for the door.

the tabernacle with ten curtains.The word {mishcan,} from {shachan,} to dwell, means simply a dwelling-place, or habitation. "When God had brought the children of Israel out of Egypt," says the very learned Dr. Cudworth, "resolving to manifest himself in a peculiar manner present among them, he thought good to dwell amongst them in a visible and external manner; and therefore, while they were in the wilderness, and sojourned in tents, he would have a tent or tabernacle built, to sojourn with them also.--Now, the tabernacle being thus a house for God to dwell in visibly, to make up the notion of dwelling or habitation complete, there must be all things suitable to a house belonging to it. Hence, in the holy place, there must be a table and a candlestick, because these were the ordinary furniture of a room. The table must have its dishes, and spoons, and bowls, and covers, belonging to it, though they were never used; and always be furnished with bread upon it. The candlestick must have its lamps continually burning, etc."

25:8; 36:8-19; 40:2,17-19; 1Ch 17:1; 21:29; Joh 1:14; 2:21; Heb 8:2

Heb 9:9,23,24; Re 21:3

fine twined linen.

36; 25:4; 35:6,35; Re 19:8

cherubims.

25:18

cunning work. Heb. the work of a cunning workman, orembroiderer.

curtain.

7,8; Nu 4:25; 2Sa 7:2; 1Ch 17:1

coupled together.

9; 36:10; Joh 17:21; 1Co 12:4,12-27; Eph 2:21,22; 4:3-6,16

Col 2:2,19

loops of blue.

5,10,11; 36:11,12,17

taches of gold.

11,33; 35:11; 36:13,18; 39:33

one tabernacle.

Eph 1:22,23; 4:16; 1Pe 2:4,5

curtains.

35:26; 36:14-18; Nu 4:25; Ps 45:13; 1Pe 3:4; 5:5

goats' hair.{Izzim,} goats, but used here elliptically for goats' hair. In different parts of Asia Minor, Syria, Cilicia, and Phrygia, the goats have long, fine, and beautiful hair; in some cases, almost as fine as silk, which is shorn at proper times, and manufactured into garments.

25:4; 35:6,23; Nu 31:20

14; Isa 4:5

eleven.

1,9,12

length of one curtain.

2,13

five curtains by themselves.

fifty loops.

4-6

tent. or, covering.

3,6

shall hang over.

a cubit.

2,8

of that which remaineth. Heb. in the remainder orsurplusage.

a covering.

36:19; Nu 4:5; Ps 27:5; 121:4,5; Isa 4:6; 25:4

rams' skins dyed red.{Oroth ailim meoddamim,} literally, the skins of red rams. It is a fact, attested by many respectable travellers, that in the Levant, sheep are often met with having red or violet coloured fleeces. Almost all ancient writers speak of the same thing.

25:5; 35:7,23; 39:34; Nu 4:10; Eze 16:10

badgers' skins.{Oroth techashim,} which nearly all the ancient versions have taken to be the name of a colour, though they differ very much with regard to the particular colour intended: the LXX., Vulgate, and Coptic, have skins dyed of a violet colour; the Syriac, azure; and the Arabic, black; and Bochart contends for the hysginus, a very deep blue. It may, however, denote an animal; for Dr. Geddes remarks, had the sacred writer meant to express only a variety of colour, he would hardly have repeated {óroth,} skins, after {meoddamim,} red, in ch. 25:5.

Exodus 40:21

he brought.

3; 26:33; 35:12

and covered.

Heb 10:19,20

2 Samuel 6:17

they brought.

1Ch 15:1; 16:1; 2Ch 1:4; Ps 132:8

pitched. Heb. stretched. offered.

1Ki 8:5,62-65; 2Ch 5:6; 7:5-7; Ezr 6:16,17

1 Chronicles 16:1

1 David's festival sacrifice.

4 He orders a choir to sing thanksgiving.

7 The psalm of thanksgiving.

37 He appoints ministers, porters, priests, and musicians, to attend continually on the ark.

they brought.

2Sa 6:17-19; 1Ki 8:6; 2Ch 5:7

in the midst.

15:1,12; 2Ch 1:4; Ps 132:8

they offered.

1Ki 8:5; 2Ch 5:6; Ezr 6:16-18

2 Chronicles 1:4

the ark.The tabernacle and the brazen altar still remained at Gibeon; but David had brought away the ark out of the tabernacle, and placed it in a tent at Jerusalem.

2Sa 6:2,17; 1Ch 13:5,6; 15:1,25-28

for he had pitched.

1Ch 16:1; Ps 132:5,6