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Exodus 25:2

Speak unto the children of Israel that they bring Me an offering; according to the Hebrew text, a gift which one lifts off, takes away from the rest of his property and reaches out and up to God; of every man that giveth it willingly with his heart, literally, "from the side of every man whom his heart impels," ye shall take My offering; truly a fine description of the eager willingness which should characterize all the gifts of the believers in the interest of the kingdom of God on earth.

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See also Exodus 25:2 in other biblical comments:

  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    Verse Exodus 25:2. _THAT THEY BRING ME AN OFFERING_] The offering here mentioned is the תרומה _terumah_, a kind of free-will offering, consisting of any thing that was necessary for the occasion. It...

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    Yahweh had redeemed the Israelites from bondage. He had made a covenant with them and had given them laws. He had promised, on condition of their obedience, to accept them as His own “peculiar treasur...

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    3. THE TABERNACLE AND THE PRIESTHOOD CHAPTER 25 The Tabernacle _ 1. The freewill offering and the materials (Exodus 25:1)_ 2. The ark (Exodus 25:10) 3. The table of showbread (Exodus 25:23) 4.

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    EXODUS 25-31. P THE TENT OF MEETING OR DWELLING OF YAHWEH. To pass from the action and movement, and the jostling of old and new, in Exodus 25:19 into the group of Chapter s 25- 31 is like passing fro...

  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

    CHILDREN. sons. OFFERING. heave offering. App-43. MAN. Hebrew. _'ish._ App-14....

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    _offering_ better, CONTRIBUTION. The Heb. _tărûmâh_(from _hçrîm, to lift_or _take off_) denotes properly what is -taken off" from a larger mass, and so separated from it for sacred purposes (LXX. ofte...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    _Contribution of materials for a sanctuary_(cf. Exodus 35:20-29). All liberally-minded Israelites are invited to contribute the materials necessary for the construction and equipment of a sanctuary it...

  • Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

    AN OFFERING— The original signifies, properly, as in the margin of our Bibles, _a heave-offering;_ so called from its being _heaved,_ or _lifted up_ before the Lord, ch. Exodus 29:27. But the word is...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    THE TEXT OF EXODUS TRANSLATION 25 AND JE-HO-VAH SPAKE UNTO MO-SES, SAYING, (2) SPEAK UNTO THE CHILDREN OF IS-RA-EL, THAT THEY TAKE FOR ME AN OFFERING: OF EVERY MAN WHOSE HEART MAKETH HIM WILLING YE SH...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    _SPEAK UNTO THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL, THAT THEY BRING ME AN OFFERING: OF EVERY MAN THAT GIVETH IT WILLINGLY WITH HIS HEART YE SHALL TAKE MY OFFERING._ Speak unto the children of Israel, that they bring...

  • Darby's translation notes (1890)

    25:2 heave-offering. (a-12) As ch. 35.5; Leviticus 7:14 ....

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    THE VESSELS OF THE SANCTUARY Chapter s 25-31 are taken up with prescriptions regarding the Construction of a Tabernacle, i.e. a tent, to form the visible dwelling-place of Jehovah in the midst of His...

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    EXODUS: *ISRAEL BECOMES A NATION GOD’S INSTRUCTIONS TO MOSES EXODUS CHAPTER S 19 TO 40 _HILDA BRIGHT AND KITTY PRIDE_ CHAPTER 25 Chapter s 25:1 – 31:17 contain details about how the *Israelites...

  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    XXV. THE GIFTS WHICH MIGHT BE GIVEN FOR THE TABERNACLE AND THE PRIESTS’ DRESSES. (2) SPEAK UNTO THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL THAT THEY bring ME AN OFFERING. — God, being about to command the construction of...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    דַּבֵּר֙ אֶל ־בְּנֵ֣י יִשְׂרָאֵ֔ל וְ יִקְחוּ...

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    CHAPTER XXV. _ THE SHRINE AND ITS FURNITURE._ Exodus 25:1 The first direction given to Moses on the mountain is to prepare for the making of a tabernacle wherein God may dwell with man. For this he...

  • Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

    MOSES SHOWN GOD'S PLAN FOR THE TABERNACLE Exodus 24:12; Exodus 25:1 There were four concentric circles, so to speak, represented as gathered around the burning center of the Divine Presence. In the o...

  • G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

    Here we begin consideration of the transactions of the forty days. Moses received instruction concerning a place of worship for the nation. It is important that we attempt to understand what this mean...

  • Geneva Study Bible Commentary

    (a) Speak unto the children of Israel, that they bring me an offering: of every man that giveth it willingly with his heart ye shall take my offering. (a) After the moral and judicial law he gives th...

  • George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

    _First-fruits: offerings, of some of the best and choicest of their goods. (Challoner) --- This was the first time such a voluntary offering was made by the Hebrews. (Menochius) --- It is a lesson for...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    Observe, though the Lord is the proprietor of all the earth, and the silver is his, and the gold his, yet he condescends to accept the gifts of his people, as tokens of favour. 2 Corinthians 9:7....

  • Introductory Lectures - Commentary by William Kelly

    "In the third month, when the children of Israel were gone forth out of the land of Egypt, the same day came they into the wilderness of Sinai." Up to this point all the dealings of God have been the...

  • John Calvin's Bible Commentary

    2._Speak unto the children of Israel. _If any caviller should raise a question as to the time in which I have thought fit to introduce this history, (114) although I would not pertinaciously contend w...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

    THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 24 AND 25. This covenant, made on condition of the obedience of the people, was confirmed by blood [1] (chap. 24.) The blood being shed, death having thus co...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    SPEAK UNTO THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL,.... That is, when he should go down from the mountain to the camp: THAT THEY BRING ME AN OFFERING; the Targums of Onkelos and Jonathan call it a "separation": somet...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    Speak unto the children of Israel, that they bring me an offering: of every man that giveth it willingly with his heart ye shall take my offering. Ver. 2. _That giveth it willingly._] _Virtus nolenti...

  • Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    _Speak unto the children of Israel_ Doubtless when Moses went into the midst of the cloud, and abode there so long, he saw and heard glorious things, but they were things which it was not _lawful_ or...

  • KJV Original Language Details

    [FREE OFFERINGS.] 1 What the Israelites must offer for the making of the Tabernacle. 10 The forme of the Arke. 17 The Mercy-seat, with the Cherubims. 23 The table, with the furniture thereof. 31...

  • Lange's Commentary on the Holy Scriptures

    I. Prerequisites: the materials; the assessments. Exodus 25:1-9 As the real temple of God must consist in believing hearts which offer themselves and build themselves into a temple of the Spirit of Go...

  • Lange's Commentary on the Holy Scriptures

    H. THE VISION OR THE IDEAL OF THE TABERNACLE. THE ORDERING OF THE ARK AND OF THE HOUSE OF THE COVENANT; OF THE LIVING PRESENCE OF THE LAW AND OF THE DWELLING-PLACE OF THE LAW-GIVER Exodus 25-31 I. C...

  • Leslie M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

    WILLING OFFERINGS FOR GOD'S SANCTUARY (vs.1-9) The law has been declared to Israel, with its stern ordinances and regulations. Now the Lord instructs Moses in a matter that is in striking contrast t...

  • Marginal Notes in the King James Version (1611)

    BRING ME: _ Heb._ take for me OFFERING: Or, heave offering...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    1-9 God chose the people of Israel to be a peculiar people to himself, above all people, and he himself would be their King. He ordered a royal palace to be set up among them for himself, called a sa...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    No text from Poole on this verse....

  • Notes on the Pentateuch by Charles Henry Mackintosh

    This chapter forms the commencement of one of the richest veins in Inspiration's exhaustless mine a vein in which every stroke of the mattock brings to light untold wealth. We know the mattock with wh...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Exodus 25:2 Speak H1696 (H8761) children H1121 Israel H3478 bring H3947 (H8799) offering H8641 everyone H376 willingly...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    PROVISION FOR MAKING THE DWELLINGPLACE: THE PEOPLE CALLED ON TO MAKE THEIR OFFERINGS (EXODUS 25:1). We may analyse this passage as follows: a The children of Israel to be called on to make an offeri...

  • Scofield's Bible Commentary

    WILLINGLY (_ See Scofield) - ( 2Co_ 8:1). _...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    CONTENTS: Moses in the mount; first directions concerning the tabernacle. CHARACTERS: God, Moses. CONCLUSION: The only way for God and man to meet is in the precise way and place which He has appoint...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    Exodus 25:2. _That they bring me an offering._ We now enter on the tabernacle, a hallowed work, a figure of the church, and emblem of the heavenly glory. This mystical temple was not new: it had exist...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _Make Me a sanctuary: _ GOD DWELLING WITH MEN I. The dwelling of God among us in Christ Jesus, when it is a reality, and not merely an idea or a phrase, imports and of necessity secures the passing...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    EXODUS 25:1 Instructions for the Tabernacle. The instructions for the tabernacle (Exodus 25:1) and the description of those instructions being carried out ...

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    CRITICAL NOTES.— Exodus 25:2. An offering.] Trumah, from the root _rom_, “that which is taken off,” from what has been put by as private property reserved for special enjoyment. Hence the injunction,...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    INSTRUCTIONS CONCERNING THE TABERNACLE AND ITS FURNITURE, INCLUDING THE PRIESTLY ATTIRE. EXPOSITION THE TABERNACLE AND THE GIFTS FOR IT. The great principles of t

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    Now it is interesting as God gives to him the design, He starts not with the tabernacle itself but with the furnishings within the tabernacle. So in chapter twenty-five, we begin with the materials th...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    they Exodus 35:5 Numbers 7:3 Deuteronomy 16:16 Deuteronomy 16:17...

  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    Speak unto the children of Israel that they bring me an offering — This offering was to be given willingly, and with the heart. It was not prescribed to them what or how much they must give, but it wa...

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