Exodus 25:27

_AND THOU SHALT MAKE UNTO IT A BORDER OF AN HAND BREADTH ROUND ABOUT, AND THOU SHALT MAKE A GOLDEN CROWN TO THE BORDER THEREOF ROUND ABOUT._ No JFB commentary on these verses....

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

OVER AGAINST THE BORDER,.... Or "under" it, as the Septuagint and Vulgate Latin versions. Jarchi says the rings were fixed to the feet over against the top of the border: SHALL THE RINGS BE FOR PLACING OF THE STAVES TO BEAR THE TABLE; into these rings staves were to be put, to carry the table from place to place, when it was necessary, as while they were in the wilderness, and before the tabernacle had a fixed settled place for it; for wherever the tabernacle was carried, the ark and the table were also: where the church of Christ is, there he is, and there are the word and ordinances; and which are sometimes moved from place to place, as from the land of Judea into the Gentile world, from the eastern part of the world to the more northern; and that by the ministers of the word, who bear the name, and carry the Gospel of Christ into the several parts of the world, as this table was bore...

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 ...

The rings were close by the points at which the -frame" (_v._25) met the legs, and where probably the legs began to be rounded, and to assume the character of -feet....

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

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 SHALL TAKE MY OFFERING. (3) AND THIS IS THE OFFERING WHICH YE SHALL TAKE OF THEM: GOLD, AND SILVER, AND BRASS, (4) AND BLUE, AND PURPLE, AND SCARLET, AND FINE LINEN, AND GOATS-' _hair,_ (5) AND RAMS-' SKINS DYED RED, AND SEALSKINS, AND ACACIA WOOD, (6) OIL FOR THE LIGHT, SPICES FOR THE ANOINTING OIL, AND FOR THE SWEET INCENSE, (7) ONYX STONES, AND STONES TO BE SET, FOR THE EPH-OD, AND FOR THE BREASTPLATE. (8) AND LET THEM MAKE ME A SANCTUARY, THAT I MAY DWELL AMONG THEM. (9) ACCORDING TO ALL THAT I SHOW THEE, THE PATTERN OF THE TABERNACLE, AND THE PATTERN OF ALL THE FURNITURE THEREOF, EVEN SO SHALL YE MAKE IT. (10) And they shall make an ark of acacia wood: two cubits and a half shall be the...