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Exodus 25:1-17

Exodus 25:1 Instructions for the Tabernacle. The instructions for the tabernacle (Exodus 25:1) and the description of those instructions being carried out (Exodus 35:4) make up most of the second half of the book of Exodus 1:1. The tabernacle is the means through which the Lord chose to dwell among his people (see Exodus 25:8; Exodus 29:45). There are two important keys to understanding the symbolism of the tabernacle. First, the tabernacle is seen as a palace for Israel’s divine king. He is enthroned on the ark of the covenant in the Most Holy Place. Second, the tabernacle, like the garden of Eden, is where God dwells, and various details of the tabernacle suggest it is a mini-Eden.

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See also Exodus 25:1-17 in other biblical comments:

  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    CHAPTER XXV _The Lord addresses Moses out of the Divine glory, and commands him_ _to speak unto the Israelites, that they may give him_ free-will _offerings_, 1, 2. _The different kinds of offerin...

  • 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

    THE LORD [HEBREW. _ JEHOVAH._ SPAKE. See notes on Exodus 3:7 and Exodus 6:10....

  • 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

    AND THE LORD SPAKE UNTO MOSES— The Almighty, as King of the Jews, having delivered his laws, and ratified his covenant with them, now calls _for an offering,_ in token of homage from his subjects, for...

  • 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

    _AND THE LORD SPAKE UNTO MOSES, SAYING,_ The Lord spake unto Moses, saying. The business that chiefly occupied Moses on the mount, whatever other disclosures were made to him there, was in receiving...

  • 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...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    וַ יְדַבֵּ֥ר יְהוָ֖ה אֶל ־מֹשֶׁ֥ה לֵּ אמֹֽר

  • 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...

  • 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....

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

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  • 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 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

    AND THE LORD SPAKE UNTO MOSES,.... When on the mount, and in the midst of the cloud with him: SAYING; as follows....

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying, Ver. 1. _And the Lord spake unto Moses._] Gave him the ceremonial law also - as before he had done the moral and judicial - which was their gospel....

  • 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...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    And the Lord spake unto Moses, saying,...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    OFFERINGS OF THE ISRAELITES REQUESTED...

  • 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...

  • 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

    EXODUS CHAPTER 25 Moses is commanded to take a free-will offering to set up the tabernacle, and of what, EXODUS 25:1. God commands him to make a sanctuary, EXODUS 25:8; chargeth him how and whereof to...

  • 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 25:1 LORD H3068 spoke H1696 (H8762) Moses H4872 saying H559 (H8800)...

  • 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

    THE LORD SPOKE UNTO MOSES The general authority for the types of Exodus is found: (1) as to the persons and events, in (1 Corinthians 10:1). (2) as to the tabernacle, in (Hebrews 9:1). Having the a...

  • 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 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...

  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    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 were not lawful or possible to utter; and therefore, in the...

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