Exodus 25:24

_AND THOU SHALT OVERLAY IT WITH PURE GOLD, AND MAKE THERETO A CROWN OF GOLD ROUND ABOUT._ Crown - the moulding, or ornamental rim, which is thought to have been raised above the level of the table, to prevent anything from falling off....

23-30 A table was to be made of wood, overlaid with gold, to stand in the outer tabernacle, to be always furnished with the shew-bread. This table, with the articles on it, and its use, seems to typify the communion which the Lord holds with his redeemed people in his ordinances, the provisions of his house, the feasts they are favoured with. Also the food for their souls, which they always find when they hunger after it; and the delight he takes in their persons and services, as presented before him in Christ....

(Compare Exodus 37:10.) The table and the candlestick figured on the Arch of Titus at Rome are those of the Maccabaean times, but made as nearly as possible after the ancient models reproduced under the direction of Solomon and Zerubbabel. The details and size of the figure, and the description of Josephus, appear to agree very nearly with the directions here given to Moses, and to illustrate them in several particulars. Josephus says that the table was like the so-called Delphic tables, richly ornamented pieces of furniture in use amongst the Romans, which were sometimes, if not always, covered with gold or silver. Exodus 25:24 See Exodus 25:11 note. The m

EXPOSITION THE TABLE OF SHEW-BREAD. From the description of the ark, which constituted the sole furniture of the most holy place, God proceeded to describe the furniture of the holy place, or body of the tabernacle, which was to consist of three objects— 1. A table, called the table of shew-bread ("bread of presence" or "bread of setting-forth"). 2. A candelabrum, or lamp-stand; and 3. An altar for the offering of incense. Of these the table seems to have been regarded as of primary importance; and its description is therefore made to follow immediately on that of the ark. It was of acacia wood, overlaid with pure gold, and was of the most ordinary shape—oblong-square, _i.e; _with four legs, one at each corner. The only peculiar features of the table, besides its mater

AND THOU SHALT OVERLAY IT WITH PURE GOLD,.... Cover it with a plate of gold, so that the wood was not seen; which may denote either the excellency of Christ's human nature, being pure and spotless, and adorned with the grace of the Spirit of God without measure; or rather of his divine nature, which is the head of Christ, and said to be as the most fine gold, for in him dwells all the fulness of the Godhead bodily: AND MAKE THERETO A CROWN OF GOLD ROUND ABOUT; that is, on both sides and at both ends; for though it is called a crown, it was a square, and this was both to ornament the table, and to keep from falling off of it what was set upon it. Jarchi says, it was a sign of the crown of the kingdom, for a table signifies riches and greatness, as they say a king's table: and indeed this was the table of the King of kings, who has on his head many crowns, and one must be made upon his ta...

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. The golden candlestick (Exodus 25:31) This is another intensely interesting portion of this great book. To give a few annotations and hints on the tabernacle is an extremely difficult task, for there is such a wonderful mine of wealth here that a book of hundreds of pages could not contain all. The tabernacle concerning which the Lord instructed Moses was the earthly place of worship of Israel; i

EXODUS 25:23 P. THE TABLE OF SHEWBREAD (_cf. Exodus 37:10_). It was an ancient custom to spread tables with food and drink as oblations to the gods, who were supposed to need food and drink (Leviticus 24:5 *). And the custom persisted long after men's ideas had changed, coming to be an acknowledgment of God's gift of daily bread. It may well typify the sympathetic share that the Creator and Preserver of all mankind takes in the creaturely needs and interests of His children. The table was of gilded wood, 3 × 1½ × 2¼ feet, with a gold rim or bead (Exodus 25:23 f.), strengthened by a 3-inch beaded frame round the legs ...

CROWN OF GOLD. Note the three "crowns": (1) Ark (Exodus 25:11), _the crown of the Law._ The atoning blood between it, and the cherubim its executant. (2) Altar of incense (Exodus 30:3), _the crown of the priesthood._ Its incense fired only by the fire from the altar of burnt offering. (3) Table of shewbread (Exodus 25:24), _the crown of the king-dom._ The twelve tribes symbolised by the twelve loaves....

_a crown_ rather, _a_beaded or spiral MOULDING, as explained on _v._11. The moulding appears (see the fig.) to have run all round the edge of each end and side, producing the appearance of four sunk panels: cf. Jos. Ant. iii. 6. 6 -and it is hollowed out on each side, hollowing out as it were the surface (of the side) for four finger-breadths, a spiral (moulding) running round both the upper and the lower part of the body (of the table)....

THOU SHALT ALSO MAKE A TABLE OF SHITTIM-WOOD— The next piece of furniture was the table for the _shewbread,_ Exodus 25:30 which, like the _ark,_ was to be made _of shittim-wood, overlaid with pure gold,_ with a _border_ and a _golden crown,_ or a circular rim of gold, with _rings_ and _staves,_ as for the ark; and, to furnish this table, _dishes, spoons, covers,_ and _bowls_ of _pure gold,_ were to be made, Exodus 25:29. Dr. Cudworth, in his Treatise on the Sacrament, ch. 6 speaks thus of this table and its furniture: "When God had brought the children of Israel out of Egypt, resolving to manifest himself in a peculiar manner present among them, he thought good to dwell amongst them in a visible and external manner; and therefore, while they were in the wilder