_A.M. 2513. B.C. 1491._ In this chapter directions are given, (1,) _ Concerning the brazen altar, Exodus 27:1._ (2,) _ Concerning the court of the tabernacle, Exodus 27:9._ (3,) _ Concerning the oil for the lamp, Exodus 27:20; Exodus 27:21._... [ Continue Reading ]
_Thou shalt make an altar_ As God intended in the tabernacle to manifest his presence among his people, so there they were to pay their devotions to him; not in the tabernacle itself, into that only the priests entered as God's domestic servants, but in the court before the tabernacle, where, as com... [ Continue Reading ]
_Thou shalt make the horns of it_ Pinnacles or spires, rising up at the corners, wrought out of the same wood; which was partly for ornament, and partly for use. To them the animals were bound, and part of the blood was applied, and to them malefactors fled for refuge.... [ Continue Reading ]
_Thou shalt make for it a grate of net-work_ This was the principal part of the altar. It was let into the hollow about the middle of it, and here the fire was kept, and the sacrifice burned. It was a broad plate of brass full of holes, like a net or sieve, and partly hollow that the fire might burn... [ Continue Reading ]
_Thou shalt make the court_ Such a place as we call a _court- yard_, uncovered above, but enclosed with pillars and hangings of fine linen. This court, according to common computation, was fifty yards long and twenty-five broad. In it stood the tabernacle toward the upper west end; between the taber... [ Continue Reading ]
_Pure oil-olive beaten_ Not squeezed out by a press or mill, such being full of sediment; but which run freely from the olives when bruised or beaten with a pestle. _To cause the lamp to burn always_ Josephus, who was himself a priest, says, they burned the lamps day and night, three of them being k... [ Continue Reading ]