Exodus 25:34

_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....

AND IN THE CANDLESTICK SHALL BE FOUR BOWLS,.... That is, in the trunk or body of it; the branches had but three apiece, but this being larger had four: and these were also MADE LIKE UNTO ALMONDS, WITH THEIR KNOPS AND THEIR FLOWERS; as the bowls on the branches had with them....

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

There were also four similar cups in the candlestick itself, i.e. in its central shaft. _Vv._34, 35 are commonly understood to mean that there were four cups altogether in the central shaft, one towards the top, and the other three so placed that the -knop" was just below the points where the three pairs of branches diverged from the central shaft; but (observe -and" at the beginning of _v._35) Kennedy (p. 664 a) may be right in supposing the meaning to be that there were to be four -knops and flowers" combined on the upper and lower parts of the shaft, and three -knops" alone under the points where the three pairs of branches diverged from it....

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...

THE VESSELS OF THE SANCTUARY Chapter s 25-31 are taken up with prescriptions regarding the Construction of a Tabernacle, i.e. a tent, to form the visible dwelling-place of Jehovah in the midst of His people, the place where He would meet them and receive their worship. The entire structure consisted of three parts. There was an outer Court, 100 cubits by 50, open to the sky, the sides of which were composed of curtains supported on pillars. The entrance was at the eastern end; inside, facing the door, was the altar of burnt offering, and behind that the brazen laver. Within this court and towards the western end was a covered tabernacle, divided by a hanging curtain into two chambers. The outer of these, called the Holy Place, contained the Table of Shewbread, the Candlestick, and the Altar of Incense. The Inner chamber, the Holy of Holies, or Most Holy Place, contained the Ark of the Co...