The altar of incense was to be about a yard high, and half a yard square, with horns at the corners, a golden cornish round it, with rings and staves of gold for the convenience of carrying it, Exodus 30:1. It doth not appear that there was any grate to this altar for the ashes to fall into, that th... [ Continue Reading ]
Aaron was to burn sweet incense upon this altar every morning and every evening, which was intended not only to take away the ill smell of the flesh that was burnt daily on the brazen altar, but for the honour of God, and to shew the, acceptableness of his people's services to him. As by the offerin... [ Continue Reading ]
This altar was purified with the blood of the sin — offering put upon the horns of it every year, upon the day of atonement. See Leviticus 16:18. The high priest was to take this in his way as he came out from the holy of holies. This was to intimate, that the sins of the priests who ministered at t... [ Continue Reading ]
Perhaps the repetition of those words, the Lord spake unto Moses, here and afterwards, Exodus 30:17, Exodus 30:22, Exodus 30:34, intimates, that God did not deliver these precepts to Moses, in a continued discourse, but with many intermissions, giving him time either to write what was said to him, o... [ Continue Reading ]
Some think this refers only to the first numbering of them, when the tabernacle was set up, and that this tax was to make up what was wanting in the voluntary contributions. Others think it was to be always when the people were numbered; and that David offended in not demanding it when he numbered t... [ Continue Reading ]
The laver, or font was a large vessel, that would contain a good quantity of water. The foot of brass, it is supposed, was so contrived as to receive the water, which was let out of the laver, by spouts or cocks. They then had a laver for the priests only to wash in, but to us now there is a fountai... [ Continue Reading ]
Interpreters are not agreed concerning these ingredients: the spices, which were in all near half a hundred weight, were to be infused in the oil, which was to be about five or six quarts, and then strained out, leaving an admirable smell in the oil. With this oil God's tent and all the furniture of... [ Continue Reading ]
The incense which was burned upon the golden altar was prepared of sweet spices likewise, though not so rare and rich as those which the anointing oil was compounded of. This was prepared once a year, (the Jews say) a pound for each day of the year, and three pound over for the day of atonement. Whe... [ Continue Reading ]