Exo 40:33, Ezr 6:15, Zec 4:9 | TSK | STEP | up the court. 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. So Moses.

Exodus 40:33

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

Ezra 6:15

A.M. 3489. B.C. 515. Adar.

Es 3:7,13; 8:12; 9:1,15,17,19,21

Zechariah 4:9

have.

Ezr 3:8-13; 5:16

his hands.

6:12,13; Ezr 6:14,15; Mt 16:18; Heb 12:2

and.

2:8,9,11; 6:15; Isa 48:16; Joh 3:17; 5:36,37; 8:16-18; 17:21