Joseph Benson’s Bible Commentary
Exodus 25:4-5
Blue, and purple, and scarlet Materials of those colours. Shittim-wood A kind of wood growing in Egypt and the deserts of Arabia, very durable and precious.
Blue, and purple, and scarlet Materials of those colours. Shittim-wood A kind of wood growing in Egypt and the deserts of Arabia, very durable and precious.
Verse Exodus 25:4. _BLUE_] תכלת _techeleth_, generally supposed to mean an _azure_ or _sky colour_; rendered by the Septuagint ὑακινθον, and by the Vulgate _hyacinthum_, a _sky-blue_ or _deep violet_...
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...
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.
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...
PURPLE, &c. These colours connected with the crucifixion. Matthew 27:28; John 19:2. White mentioned last. So in Revelation 19:13; Revel
_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...
Materials spun or woven. _blue_ more exactly, PURPLE-BLUE (LXX. ὑάκινθος, ὑακίνθινος, -dark blue"), or VIOLET (Esther 1:6 AV.), i.e. yarn or stump so coloured by means of a dye obtained from a shell-f...
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...
_AND BLUE, AND PURPLE, AND SCARLET, AND FINE LINEN, AND GOATS' HAIR,_ Blue, х_ UWTKEELET_ (H8504)] - from a shellfish, Helix Ianthina (Linnoeus), a species of mussel found in the Mediterranean, with...
25:4 byssus, (b-8) A white material, see Note, Genesis 41:42 ....
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...
BLUE, etc.] the yarns of which the hangings were to be woven by the women: see Exodus 35:25; Exodus 39:1....
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...
AND BLUE, AND PURPLE, AND SCARLET. — The colours intended are probably a dark blue produced from indigo, which was the only blue known to the Egyptians, a purplish crimson derived from the _murex trun...
וּ תְכֵ֧לֶת וְ אַרְגָּמָ֛ן וְ תֹולַ֥עַת שָׁנִ
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...
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...
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...
Scarlet twice dyed. Aquila and Symmachus have transparent. This colour is often confounded with purple, as our Saviour's robe is styled scarlet by St. Matthew xxvii. 28; and purple by St. John xix. 2....
Perhaps the things here particularized, beside their first use, had a spiritual allusion. See Revelation 3:18....
"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...
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...
AND BLUE, AND PURPLE, AND SCARLET,.... The Jewish doctors are much divided about the sense of the words so rendered by us; some will have one colour, and some another meant; but, according to those le...
And blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine linen, and goats' [hair], Ver. 4. _And blue, and purple, and scarlet,_] i.e., Wool dyed with these colours; Heb 9:19 to teach the Church that both themselv...
[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...
and blue, a hyacinth colored or dark-blue purple, AND PURPLE, that is, the purple proper, of a brilliant dark-red, AND SCARLET, or crimson purple, dyed with the color prepared from the coccus insect,...
OFFERINGS OF THE ISRAELITES REQUESTED...
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...
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...
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...
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...
BLUE, or _sky-coloured_; but here you must not understand the mere colours, which could not be offered, but some materials proper for the work, and of the colours here mentioned, to wit, wool, or thre...
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...
Exodus 25:4 blue H8504 purple H713 scarlet H8438 H8144 linen H8336 goats H5795 fine linen - or, silk,...
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...
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...
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...
_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...
EXODUS 25:1 Instructions for the Tabernacle. The instructions for the tabernacle (Exodus 25:1) and the description of those instructions being carried out ...
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,...
INSTRUCTIONS CONCERNING THE TABERNACLE AND ITS FURNITURE, INCLUDING THE PRIESTLY ATTIRE. EXPOSITION THE TABERNACLE AND THE GIFTS FOR IT. The great principles of t
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...
blue. Techaileth, generally supposed to mean an azure or Genesis 41:42 Ezekiel 16:10 Revelation 19:8...
Blue, and purple, and scarlet — Materials of those colours....