Exodus 40:1
_AND THE LORD SPAKE UNTO MOSES, SAYING,_ No JFB commentary on this verse.... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND THE LORD SPAKE UNTO MOSES, SAYING,_ No JFB commentary on this verse.... [ Continue Reading ]
_ON THE FIRST DAY OF THE FIRST MONTH SHALT THOU SET UP THE TABERNACLE OF THE TENT OF THE CONGREGATION._ On the first day of the first month. From a careful consideration of the incidents recorded to have happened after the exodus (Exodus 12:2; Exodus 13:4; Exodus 19:1; Exodus 20:18; Exodus 34:28; e... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND THOU SHALT PUT THEREIN THE ARK OF THE TESTIMONY, AND COVER THE ARK WITH THE VAIL._ The ark of the testimony - (see the note at Exodus 25:10).... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND THOU SHALT BRING IN THE TABLE, AND SET IN ORDER THE THINGS THAT ARE TO BE SET IN ORDER UPON IT; AND THOU SHALT BRING IN THE CANDLESTICK, AND LIGHT THE LAMPS THEREOF._ No JFB commentary on these verses.... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND THOU SHALT TAKE THE ANOINTING OIL, AND ANOINT THE TABERNACLE, AND ALL THAT IS THEREIN, AND SHALT HALLOW IT, AND ALL THE VESSELS THEREOF: AND IT SHALL BE HOLY._ Thou shalt take the anointing oil ... The oil was emblematic of the Holy Spirit; and this formal consecration of the tabernacle and it... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND THOU SHALT BRING AARON AND HIS SONS UNTO THE DOOR OF THE TABERNACLE OF THE CONGREGATION, AND WASH THEM WITH WATER._ Bring Aaron and his sons unto the door of the tabernacle ... and wash them. This ceremony, as Hengstenberg remarks, was observed also in Egypt, where the priests were purified wi... [ Continue Reading ]
_THUS DID MOSES: ACCORDING TO ALL THAT THE LORD COMMANDED HIM, SO DID HE._ Thus did Moses. On his part, the same scrupulous fidelity was shown in conforming to the "pattern" in the disposition of the furniture as had been displayed by the workmen in the erection of the edifice.... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND IT CAME TO PASS IN THE FIRST MONTH IN THE SECOND YEAR, ON THE FIRST DAY OF THE MONTH, THAT THE TABERNACLE WAS REARED UP._ No JFB commentary on these verses.... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND HE REARED UP THE COURT ROUND ABOUT THE TABERNACLE AND THE ALTAR, AND SET UP THE HANGING OF THE COURT GATE. SO MOSES FINISHED THE WORK._ So Moses finished the work. Though it is not expressly recorded in this passage, yet, from what took place on all similar occasions, there is reason to believ... [ Continue Reading ]
_THEN A CLOUD COVERED THE TENT OF THE CONGREGATION, AND THE GLORY OF THE LORD FILLED THE TABERNACLE._ A cloud - literally, 'The' cloud; the mystic cloud which was the well-known symbol of the divine presence. After remaining at a great distance from them on the summit of the mount, it appeared to b... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND MOSES WAS NOT ABLE TO ENTER INTO THE TENT OF THE CONGREGATION, BECAUSE THE CLOUD ABODE THEREON, AND THE GLORY OF THE LORD FILLED THE TABERNACLE._ MOSES WAS NOT ABLE TO ENTER. He might not have been called, and he would not attempt to enter without a call (Exodus 24:16). But it is said that he ... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND WHEN THE CLOUD WAS TAKEN UP FROM OVER THE TABERNACLE, THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL WENT ONWARD IN ALL THEIR JOURNEYS:_ When the cloud was taken up. In journeying through the sandy trackless deserts of the East, the use of torches, exhibiting a cloud of smoke by day and of fire by night, has been res... [ Continue Reading ]
_BUT IF THE CLOUD WERE NOT TAKEN UP, THEN THEY JOURNEYED NOT TILL THE DAY THAT IT WAS TAKEN UP._ No JFB commentary on this verse.... [ Continue Reading ]
_FOR THE CLOUD OF THE LORD WAS UPON THE TABERNACLE BY DAY, AND FIRE WAS ON IT BY NIGHT, IN THE SIGHT OF ALL THE HOUSE OF ISRAEL, THROUGHOUT ALL THEIR_ The cloud of the Lord ... While it had hitherto appeared sometimes in one place, sometimes in another, it was now found on the tabernacle only; so t... [ Continue Reading ]