Exodus 36 - Introduction
_THE OFFERINGS ARE DELIVERED TO THE WORKMEN: THE LIBERALITY OF THE PEOPLE IS RESTRAINED._ _Before Christ 1490._... [ Continue Reading ]
_THE OFFERINGS ARE DELIVERED TO THE WORKMEN: THE LIBERALITY OF THE PEOPLE IS RESTRAINED._ _Before Christ 1490._... [ Continue Reading ]
THEN WROUGHT BEZALEEL, &C.— As this verse stands, it seems to make the sense incoherent, as if _Bezaleel,_ &c. had set about the work before Moses delivered it to them: see Exodus 36:2. Junius, therefore, judiciously connects it with the last chapter; and renders it, _therefore Bezaleel and Aholiah... [ Continue Reading ]
AND THEY BROUGHT YET UNTO HIM FREE-OFFERINGS EVERY MORNING— Nothing can be more pleasing to observe, than this liberality of the people: conscious how much they had offended by their offerings to form the idolatrous calf, they now seem desirous to prove their repentance by the cheerful zeal wherewit... [ Continue Reading ]
_EXODUS 36:8_.— It may be proper to observe here, for the sake of the learned reader, that the Vatican edition of the LXX varies much from all other copies of the Bible; giving us here that description of the priests' vestments, which we have in the 39th chapter, instead of the description of the ta... [ Continue Reading ]
_EXODUS 36:9_.— We have here, 1. The tabernacle completed. The inside is finished first. _Note;_ Our first care must be about the hidden man of the heart. 2. The coverings are prepared to guard it from the injuries of the weather. They who dwell under the shadow of Jesus, the true Tabernacle, have... [ Continue Reading ]