1.
Then wrought Bezaleel and Aholiab, and every wise hearted man, in whom the LORD put wisdom and understanding to know how to work all manner of work for the service of the sanctuary, according to all that the LORD had commanded.
An, Ex, Is, 1, Tisri to Adar
Bezaleel: Exodus 31:1-6, Exodus 35:30-35
wise hearted man: Exodus 28:3, Exodus 31:6
for the service: Exodus 36:3, Exodus 36:4, Exodus 25:8, Numbers 7:9, Hebrews 8:2
according: Exodus 23:21, Exodus 23:22, Exodus 39:1-43, Exodus 40:1-38, Psalms 119:6, Matthew 28:20, Luke 1:6
Reciprocal: Exodus 10:25 - sacrifices Exodus 31:2 - I have Exodus 35:10 - General Exodus 35:25 - General Exodus 38:22 - Bezaleel Exodus 39:33 - the tent 1 Kings 7:14 - he was filled 1 Chronicles 2:20 - Bezaleel 1 Chronicles 28:21 - willing Job 38:36 - who hath given Proverbs 8:12 - knowledge 2 Timothy 2:7 - and James 1:5 - any James 1:17 - good
2.
And Moses called Bezaleel and Aholiab, and every wise hearted man, in whose heart the LORD had put wisdom, even every one whose heart stirred him up to come unto the work to do it:
in whose: Exodus 28:3, Exodus 31:6, Exodus 35:10, Exodus 35:21-35, Acts 6:3, Acts 6:4, Acts 14:23, Colossians 4:17, Hebrews 5:4
one whose: Exodus 35:2, Exodus 35:21, Exodus 35:25, Exodus 35:26, 1 Chronicles 29:5
Reciprocal: 1 Kings 7:14 - he was filled 1 Chronicles 2:20 - Bezaleel Job 38:36 - who hath given Isaiah 28:26 - For his God Isaiah 58:13 - turn 2 Timothy 1:6 - that 2 Timothy 2:7 - and James 1:17 - good James 3:17 - the wisdom
3.
And they received of Moses all the offering, which the children of Israel had brought for the work of the service of the sanctuary, to make it withal. And they brought yet unto him free offerings every morning.
the offering: Exodus 35:5-21, Exodus 35:27, Exodus 35:29
every morning: Psalms 5:3, Psalms 101:8, Proverbs 8:15, Isaiah 50:4, Jeremiah 21:12
Reciprocal: Exodus 36:1 - for the service Leviticus 1:3 - his own 2 Kings 12:4 - and all the money Ezra 2:68 - offered freely Isaiah 58:13 - turn
4.
And all the wise men, that wrought all the work of the sanctuary, came every man from his work which they made;
2 Chronicles 24:13, Matthew 24:45, Luke 12:42, 1 Corinthians 3:10
Reciprocal: Exodus 36:1 - for the service
5.
And they spake unto Moses, saying, The people bring much more than enough for the service of the work, which the LORD commanded to make.
Exodus 32:3, 2 Chronicles 24:14, 2 Chronicles 31:6-10, 2 Corinthians 8:2, 2 Corinthians 8:3, Philippians 2:21, Philippians 4:17, Philippians 4:18
Reciprocal: 2 Kings 22:7 - they dealt faithfully 2 Chronicles 31:5 - as soon
6.
And Moses gave commandment, and they caused it to be proclaimed throughout the camp, saying, Let neither man nor woman make any more work for the offering of the sanctuary. So the people were restrained from bringing.
When God puts grace into the heart, the hands will be diligently employed in every good work.
Reciprocal: 2 Kings 22:7 - they dealt faithfully 2 Chronicles 31:5 - as soon
7.
For the stuff they had was sufficient for all the work to make it, and too much.
and too much: 2 Chronicles 31:10
8.
And every wise hearted man among them that wrought the work of the tabernacle made ten curtains of fine twined linen, and blue, and purple, and scarlet: with cherubims of cunning work made he them.
wise: Exodus 31:6, Exodus 35:10
made: Exodus 26:1-37, 1 Chronicles 15:1
cherubims: Keroovim, cherubim, not cherubims. What these were we cannot determine. Some, observing that the verb kerav in Syriac, sometimes means to resemble, make like, conceive the noun keroov signifies no more than an image, figure, or representation of anything. Josephus says they were flying animals, like none of those which are seen by man, but such as Moses saw about the throne of God. In another place he says, "As for the cherubim, nobody can tell or conceive what they were like." These symbolical figures, according to the description of them by Ezekiel (Ezekiel 1:10; Ezekiel 10:14), were creatures with four heads and one body; and the animals of which these forms consisted were the noblest of their kind; the lion among the wild beasts; the bull among the tame ones; the eagle among the birds, and man at the head of all. Hence some have conceived them to be somewhat of the shape of flying oxen; and it is alleged in favour of this opinion, that the far more common meaning of the verb kerav, in Chaldee, Syriac, and Arabic, being to plough, the natural meaning of keroov, is a creature used in ploughing. This seems to have been the ancient opinion which tradition had handed down, concerning the shape of the cherubim with the flaming sword, that guarded the tree of life - Genesis 3:24. Exodus 25:18, Exodus 25:22, 1 Kings 6:23, 2 Chronicles 3:10, Ezekiel 1:5-28, Ezekiel 10:1-19
Reciprocal: Exodus 26:31 - blue Exodus 31:7 - tabernacle Exodus 35:11 - tabernacle Exodus 35:26 - General Exodus 36:19 - rams' skins dyed red Exodus 39:3 - cunning work Exodus 40:19 - the tent Numbers 3:25 - the tabernacle and 1 Kings 6:29 - carved figures 1 Kings 7:14 - he was filled Hebrews 9:2 - a tabernacle
9.
The length of one curtain was twenty and eight cubits, and the breadth of one curtain four cubits: the curtains were all of one size.
10.
And he coupled the five curtains one unto another: and the other five curtains he coupled one unto another.
11.
And he made loops of blue on the edge of one curtain from the selvedge in the coupling: likewise he made in the uttermost side of another curtain, in the coupling of the second.
12.
Fifty loops made he in one curtain, and fifty loops made he in the edge of the curtain which was in the coupling of the second: the loops held one curtain to another.
Exodus 26:5, Exodus 26:10
Reciprocal: Exodus 26:4 - loops of blue
13.
And he made fifty taches of gold, and coupled the curtains one unto another with the taches: so it became one tabernacle.
so it became: 1 Corinthians 12:20, Ephesians 2:20-22, 1 Peter 2:4, 1 Peter 2:5
Reciprocal: Exodus 26:6 - taches of gold
14.
And he made curtains of goats' hair for the tent over the tabernacle: eleven curtains he made them.
Exodus 26:7-13
Reciprocal: Exodus 36:19 - rams' skins dyed red
15.
The length of one curtain was thirty cubits, and four cubits was the breadth of one curtain: the eleven curtains were of one size.
16.
And he coupled five curtains by themselves, and six curtains by themselves.
17.
And he made fifty loops upon the uttermost edge of the curtain in the coupling, and fifty loops made he upon the edge of the curtain which coupleth the second.
Reciprocal: Exodus 26:4 - loops of blue Exodus 27:9 - hangings for
18.
And he made fifty taches of brass to couple the tent together, that it might be one.
Reciprocal: Exodus 26:6 - taches of gold Exodus 40:2 - tabernacle
19.
And he made a covering for the tent of rams' skins dyed red, and a covering of badgers' skins above that.
covering: Exodus 26:14
rams' skins dyed red: This was the third covering of the tabernacle. The first and lowermost was made of fine linen, richly embroidered with figures of cherubim, in shades of blue, purple, and scarlet - Exodus 36:8-13. It is reasonable to suppose, that the right side of this curtain was undermost, and so it formed a beautiful ceiling in the inside of the tabernacle. The second covering, which lay over the embroidered one, was made of a sort of mohair - Exodus 36:14-17, and the fourth, or uppermost one, which was to keep the others from the weather, was made of tachash, or badgers' skins.
20.
And he made boards for the tabernacle of shittim wood, standing up.
boards: Exodus 26:15-25, Exodus 40:18, Exodus 40:19
shittim wood: Exodus 25:5, Exodus 25:10, Numbers 25:1, Deuteronomy 10:3
Reciprocal: Exodus 36:21 - The length Numbers 3:36 - under the custody and charge
21.
The length of a board was ten cubits, and the breadth of a board one cubit and a half.
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 - Exodus 36:20, their length was consequently the height of the tabernacle; and as the two sides were composed of twenty of these, standing up - Exodus 36:23, and Exodus 36:25, and the west end of six, with two boards to project at the corners - Exodus 36:27, and Exodus 36:28, 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.
22.
One board had two tenons, equally distant one from another: thus did he make for all the boards of the tabernacle.
Reciprocal: Exodus 26:17 - tenons
23.
And he made boards for the tabernacle; twenty boards for the south side southward:
Reciprocal: Exodus 36:21 - The length
24.
And forty sockets of silver he made under the twenty boards; two sockets under one board for his two tenons, and two sockets under another board for his two tenons.
Reciprocal: Exodus 26:17 - tenons Exodus 26:19 - forty sockets of silver
25.
And for the other side of the tabernacle, which is toward the north corner, he made twenty boards,
Reciprocal: Exodus 36:21 - The length
26.
And their forty sockets of silver; two sockets under one board, and two sockets under another board.
27.
And for the sides of the tabernacle westward he made six boards.
westward: Exodus 26:22, Exodus 26:27
Reciprocal: Exodus 36:21 - The length
28.
And two boards made he for the corners of the tabernacle in the two sides.
Reciprocal: Exodus 26:23 - corners Exodus 36:21 - The length
29.
And they were coupled beneath, and coupled together at the head thereof, to one ring: thus he did to both of them in both the corners.
30.
And there were eight boards; and their sockets were sixteen sockets of silver, under every board two sockets.
under every board two sockets: Heb. two sockets
two sockets: under one board, Exodus 26:25
Reciprocal: Exodus 26:24 - and they shall be coupled together above
31.
And he made bars of shittim wood; five for the boards of the one side of the tabernacle,
32.
And five bars for the boards of the other side of the tabernacle, and five bars for the boards of the tabernacle for the sides westward.
the tabernacle: Exodus 26:26
33.
And he made the middle bar to shoot through the boards from the one end to the other.
34.
And he overlaid the boards with gold, and made their rings of gold to be places for the bars, and overlaid the bars with gold.
Reciprocal: 1 Kings 6:21 - overlaid
35.
And he made a vail of blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen: with cherubims made he it of cunning work.
veil of blue: Parachoth, from parach, to separate, divide, make a distinction between somewhat, the inner vail, which divided the tabernacle into two, and separated, and made a distinction between the Holy place and the Holy of Holies. This vail was made of the same rich materials as the inner covering of the tabernacle, and curiously embroidered with cherubim and other ornaments. Though it does not appear from Scripture at what distance from either end of the tabernacle this vail was hung, yet is reasonably conjectured, that it divided it in the same proportion in which the temple, built after this model, was divided; that is, two-thirds of the whole length were allotted to the first room, and one-third to the second; so that the room beyond the vail, the Holy of Holies, was exactly square, being ten cubits each way, and the first room, the sanctuary, was twice as long as it was broad. Exodus 26:31-35, Exodus 30:6, Exodus 40:21, Matthew 27:51, Hebrews 10:20
Reciprocal: Exodus 35:12 - the veil Exodus 40:3 - General Numbers 3:31 - and the hanging Numbers 4:5 - they shall Hebrews 9:3 - the second
36.
And he made thereunto four pillars of shittim wood, and overlaid them with gold: their hooks were of gold; and he cast for them four sockets of silver.
Jeremiah 1:18
Reciprocal: Exodus 26:32 - their hooks shall be of gold Exodus 26:33 - the taches Exodus 35:12 - the veil Exodus 40:3 - General Numbers 3:31 - and the hanging Numbers 3:36 - under the custody and charge
37.
And he made an hanging for the tabernacle door of blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen, of needlework;
an hanging: This vail was a fine embroidered curtain, of the same materials and of the same workmanship as the inner vail and inner covering of the tabernacle. The text does not say how low it hung. Philo makes it touch the ground; but Josephus will have it to come down but half way, so that the people might have a view of the inside of the tabernacle; but then he says there was another curtain over that, which came to the ground, to keep it from the weather, and was drawn aside on the sabbath and other festivals. Exodus 26:36, Exodus 26:37, Exodus 40:28
of needlework: Heb. the work of a needle worker, or embroider, Exodus 26:36
Reciprocal: Exodus 27:16 - needlework Exodus 35:15 - the hanging Numbers 3:25 - and the hanging Ezekiel 41:2 - the door
38.
And the five pillars of it with their hooks: and he overlaid their chapiters and their fillets with gold: but their five sockets were of brass.
fillets with gold: Exodus 27:10
Reciprocal: Exodus 26:32 - pillars of shittim Exodus 26:37 - overlay them with gold Exodus 35:15 - the hanging Numbers 3:25 - and the hanging 1 Kings 7:16 - General