5._Take ye from among you an offering. _I have introduced a passage from chapter 35, wherein Moses again requires what he had before prescribed; but he goes more into detail, and treats at greater length of the parts of the tabernacle. In the former passage he employed a verb, where he here uses a n... [ Continue Reading ]
10._And every wise-hearted among you. _Thus he denominates the artificers, who excelled in shrewdness of intellect, and so, after having commanded them severally of their private means to supply the materials, he now exhorts others to contribute their industry for shaping and joining them together.... [ Continue Reading ]
20._And all the congregation of the children of Israel_. There is no reason why any one should be surprised that the order of the narrative is changed, since it plainly appears from many passages that the order of time is not always observed by Moses. Thus he appears here to connect the fall of the... [ Continue Reading ]
22._And they came, both men and women_. Express mention is made of the women, not only whose bounty, but whose labors, as it soon afterwards appears, God designed to make use of in the work of the sanctuary. Moses magnifies the fervor of their pious desires, because they did not spare their ornament... [ Continue Reading ]
30._See, the Lord hath called by name Bezaleel_. This was a great stimulus to encourage them, when they plainly saw that God presided over the work; a conspicuous proof of which was that new and extraordinary power wherewith Bezaleel and Aboliab were endued; for although they had before been noble a... [ Continue Reading ]
31._And he hath filled him with the spirit of God_. He again magnifies at greater length the excellence of genius and ability, (which had been given to Bezaleel.) (296) For it was a remarkable instance of God’s power, that, after the Israelites had been so contemptuously and oppressively enslaved, t... [ Continue Reading ]