_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._ Then wrought Bezaleel ... Here is an illustrious example of zeal and... [ Continue Reading ]
_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:_ No JFB commentary on this verse.... [ Continue Reading ]
_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._ They (the workmen) received of Moses ... It appears that the building was begun after... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND ALL THE WISE MEN, THAT WROUGHT ALL THE WORK OF THE SANCTUARY, CAME EVERY MAN FROM HIS WORK WHICH THEY MADE;_ No JFB commentary on this verse.... [ Continue Reading ]
_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._ Spake unto Moses ... By the calculations which the practiced eyes of the workmen enabled them to make, they were unanimously of opinion that the supply already... [ Continue Reading ]
_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._ No JFB commentary on these verses.... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND HE MADE A VAIL OF BLUE, AND PURPLE, AND SCARLET, AND FINE TWINED LINEN: WITH CHERUBIMS MADE HE IT OF CUNNING WORK._ Made a veil - the second or inner veil, which separated the holy from the most holy place, embroidered with cherubim, and of great size and thickness.... [ Continue Reading ]
_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._ No JFB commentary on this verse.... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND HE MADE AN HANGING FOR THE TABERNACLE DOOR OF BLUE, AND PURPLE, AND SCARLET, AND FINE TWINED LINEN, OF NEEDLEWORK;_ Made an hanging for the ... door. Curtains of elaborately-worked needle-work are often suspended over the entrance to tents of the great nomad sheikhs, and throughout Persia, at... [ Continue Reading ]