Exodus 25:33

_THREE BOWLS MADE LIKE UNTO ALMONDS, WITH A KNOP AND A FLOWER IN ONE BRANCH; AND THREE BOWLS MADE LIKE ALMONDS IN THE OTHER BRANCH, WITH A KNOP AND A FLOWER: SO IN THE SIX BRANCHES THAT COME OUT OF THE CANDLESTICK._ No JFB commentary on these verses....

31-40 The candlestick represents the light of God's word and Spirit, in and through Christ Jesus, afforded in this dark world to his believing people, to direct their worship and obedience, and to afford them consolations. The church is still dark, as the tabernacle was, in comparison with what it will be in heaven; but the word of God is a light shining in a dark place, 2 Peter 1:19, and a dark place indeed the world would be without it. In ver. Exodus 25:40 is an express caution to Moses. Nothing was left to his own fancy, or to that of the workmen, or the people; but the will of God must be observed in every particular. Christ's instruction to his disciples, Matthew 28:20, is like this, Observe all things whatsoever I have co...

Exodus 25:31 A CANDLESTICK OF PURE GOLD - (Compare Exodus 37:17.) A lampstand rather than a candlestick. Its purpose was to support seven oil-lamps. Its height appears to have been about three feet, and its width two feet. The original foot was lost or stolen when the candlestick was taken out of the temple, and the pedestal in the sculpture was added by some Roman artist to set off the trophy. HIS SHAFT, AND HIS BRANCHES, HIS BOWLS, HIS KNOPS, AND HIS FLOWERS - Or, its base, its stem, its flower cups, its knobs, and its lilies. Exodus 25:33 THREE BOWLS MADE LIKE UNTO ALMONDS - Three cups of a

EXPOSITION THE GOLDEN CANDLESTICK (Exodus 25:31-2). Though the holy of holies was always dark, unless when lighted by. the glory of God (Exodus 40:34, Exodus 40:35), the holy place, in which many of the priests' functions were to be performed, was to be always kept light. In the day-time sufficient light entered from the porch in front; but, as evening drew on, some artificial illumination was required. In connection with this object, the golden candlestick, or rather lamp-stand, was designed, which, together with its appurtenances, is described in the remainder of the chapter....

THREE BOWLS MADE LIKE UNTO ALMONDS, WITH A KNOP AND A FLOWER IN ONE BRANCH,.... There were three bowls or cups in the form of almond nuts to each branch, which were either to hold oil for the lamps, as before observed, or, as others think, to catch the snuff which fell from them; and there were a "knop", which, according to the signification of the word, was in the form of a pomegranate, and a flower, which the Targum of Jonathan renders a lily; and they are both in Scripture emblems of the saints endowed with the gifts and graces of the Spirit: AND THREE BOWLS MADE LIKE ALMONDS IN THE OTHER BRANCH; on the other side of the candlestick, opposite to the former: SO IN THE SIX BRANCHES THAT COME OUT OF THE CANDLESTICK; there were the same number of bowls, with a knop and a flower in the rest of the branches, as in those mentioned....

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 25:31 P. THE GOLDEN CANDLESTICK (or LAMPSTAND, _ cf. Exodus 37:17_ and Exodus 25:24). This was of massive gold, weighing 96 lbs., with its vessels (Exodus 25:40), having a base, a central stem, and six branches, all ornamented with bosses shaped like almond flowers, each cup or entire blossom being made up of the outer knop or calyx and the inner flower or corolla, three bosses on each branch and four on the central stem, as well as knops at the three points where the pairs of branches met the stem (Exodus 25:31). The seven lamps were

THREE. Note connection with four, Exodus 25:34, making seven. See App-10....

There were three of these cups, shaped like almond-flowers, in each of the six branches....

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...