Exodus 25:30

_AND THOU SHALT SET UPON THE TABLE SHEWBREAD BEFORE ME ALWAY._ Showbread, х_ LECHEM_ (H3899) _ PAANIYM_ (H6440)] - literally, bread of faces, presence bread [Septuagint, artoi enoopioi] (Leviticus 24:5); so called because it was constantly exhibited before the Lord, or because the bread of His presence, like the angel of His presence, pointed symbolically to Christ. It consisted of twelve unleavened loaves, said traditionally to have been laid in piles of six each. This bread was designed to be a symbol of the full and never-failing provision which is made in the Church for the spiritual sustenance and refreshment of God's people....

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....

Verse Exodus 25:30. _SHEW-BREAD_]_ __לחם פנים __lechem panim_ literally, _bread_ _of faces_; so called, either because they were placed _before the_ _presence_ or _face of God_ in the sanctuary, or because they were made _square_, as the Jews will have it. It is probable that they were in the form or _cubes_ or _hexaedrons_, each side presenting the same appearance; and hence the Jews might suppose they were called the _bread_ or _loaves of faces_: but the Hebrew text seems to intimate that they were called the _bread of faces_, פנים panim, because, as the Lord says, they were set לפני _lephanai, before my_ FACE. These loaves or cakes were _twelve_, representing, as is generally supposed, the twelve tribes of Israel. They were in two rows of six each. On the top of each row there was a golden dish with fr...

(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 SHALL SET UPON THE TABLE SHEWBREAD BEFORE ME ALWAYS. Which consisted of twelve cakes loaves, set in two rows upon the table, and stood there a whole week, and every sabbath were renewed; and when the old ones were took away, which were eaten by the priests, new ones were set, so that they were always before the Lord; and being continually before him, were called shewbread, or "bread of faces", being always before the face of God. This was a memorial of the goodness of God in daily providing bread for the people of Israel, and was presented to him as a thankful acknowledgment of it, and being the same they ate at their own tables; and this being eaten by the priests, was expressive of the communion between God and them, they being guests of his, and feeding on the same provisions. This shewbread may be considered either as typical of the church and people of God, who are all one...

SHEWBREAD Showbread, type of Christ, the Bread of God, nourisher of the Christian's life as a believer-priest (1 Peter 2:9); (Revelation 1:6). In (John 6:33) our Lord has more in mind the manna, that food which "came down"; but all typical meanings of "bread" are there gathered into His words. The manna is the life-giving Christ; the showbread, the life-sustaining Christ. The showbread typifies Christ as the "corn of wheat" (John 12:24) ground in the mill of suffering (John 12:27) and brought into the fire of judgment ...

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 ...

SHEWBREAD. Hebrew bread of faces; faces being put _for presence_ by Figure of speech _Metonymy_ (of Adjunct), App-6, denoting the Divine presence in which the bread stood, and from Whom all supplies, material and spiritual, came. First occurance. ME. Hebrew "My face. "So that here we have the Figure of speech _Paronomasia, "panim lephanai"_ (App-6)....