Exodus 25:38

_AND THE TONGS THEREOF, AND THE SNUFFDISHES THEREOF, SHALL BE OF PURE GOLD._ And the tongs thereof, х_ UWMALQAACHEYHAA_ (H4457)] - sometimes large tongs for a fire (cf. Isaiah 6:6); but here small tongs, or snuffers for lamps (cf. Exodus 37:23; Numbers 4:9; 1 Kings 7:49; 2 Chronicles 4:21)....

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....

Ver. 38 AND THE TONGS THEREOF,.... Which, according to Jarchi, was a sort of forks with which they took the wicks out of the oil, and put them in the lamps; or, as some think, the snuffers, but they are distinguished from tongs, 1 Kings 7:49 and the snuffdishes thereof shall be of pure gold; in which the tongs or snuffers were put, or into which the snuff itself was put that was snuffed off. Jarchi says they were a sort of small cups, in which they put the ashes of the lamp, morning by morning, when they trimmed the lamps from the ashes of the wicks which burned in the night, and were extinct: so Ben Gersom and Lyra say they were vessels full of water where those were put which were snuffed off, that they might not make a smoke, which is not improbable....

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

TONGS. snuffers (but no extinguishers)....

_tongs_ so Exodus 37:23, Num 4:9, 1 Kings 7:49 b (=2 Chronicles 4:21 a), Isaiah 6:6 †. In Isaiah 6:6 we should still say -tongs" (the Heb. is lit. _the two takers_), but not in the other cases. Probably in all cases something of the nature of _tweezers_for drawing up the wick is meant (like the _forcipes_figured in Smith's _Dict. of Class. Antiq._3. i. 872): -snuffers," which in the case of a lamp we should naturally think of, represents a different Heb. word (1

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...