Exodus 26:35

_AND THOU SHALT PUT THE MERCY SEAT UPON THE ARK OF THE TESTIMONY IN THE MOST HOLY PLACE._ No JFB commentary on these verses....

31-37 A vail, or curtain, separated the holy place from the most holy place. It was hung upon pillars. This vail was for a partition between the holy place and the most holy; which forbade any to look into the holiest of all. The apostle tells what was the meaning of this vail, Hebrews 9:8. That the ceremonial law could not make the comers thereunto perfect, nor would the observance of it bring men to heaven; the way into the holiest of all was not made manifest, while the first tabernacle was standing. Life and immortality lay hidden till they were brought to light by the gospel; which was signified by the rending of this vail at the death of Christ, Matthew 27:51. We have now boldness to enter into the holiest, in all acts of worship, by the blood of Jesus; yet such as obliges us to holy reverence. Another vail w...

(Compare Exodus 36:8.) The tabernacle was to comprise three main parts, the tabernacle Exodus 26:1, more strictly so-called, its tent Exodus 26:7, and its covering Exodus 26:14 (Compare Exodus 35:11; Exodus 39:33; Exodus 40:19, Exodus 40:34;...

EXPOSITION EXODUS 26:1 THE TABERNACLE. The sacred furniture which the tabernacle was to contain having been described, with the exception of the "altar of incense" the description of which is reserved for Exodus 30:1. (Exodus 30:1)-directions were next given for the sacred structure itself. This was to consist of three main things— 1. A quadrangular enclosure thirty cubits long by ten broad, open at one end, and on the other three sides enclosed by boards of acacia-wood overlaid with gold—called the _mishkan_, or "the dwelling-place," in our version usually translated "tabernacle." 2....

AND THOU SHALT SET THE TABLE WITHOUT THE VAIL,.... The table of shewbread, of which see Exodus 25:23, this was not to be within the vail, but without it, in the holy place: and the candlestick opposite the table, of which see Exodus 25:31, c. signifying, that in the church of God, in the present state of things, which the holy place was an emblem of, there are both food and light: the candlestick was placed ON THE SIDE OF THE TABERNACLE, TOWARD THE SOUTH according to Jarchi, two cubits and a half from the side of it: AND THOU SHALT PUT THE TABLE ON THE NORTH SIDE; of the tabernacle, directly opposite the candlestick, two cubits and a half from the south side, as the same writer says;...

CHAPTER 26 THE TABERNACLE AND ITS CONSTRUCTION _ 1. The curtains (Exodus 26:1)_ 2. The coverings (Exodus 26:7) 3. The boards (Exodus 26:15) 4. The vail (Exodus 26:31) 5. The hangings for the door (Exodus 26:36) While the tabernacle is a type of the heavenly places (Hebrews 9:23) it is also a type of Christ, who tabernacled among men. The wonderful foreshadowings we find here down to the minutest details is an evidence of in

EXODUS 26. P. THE DWELLING. This chapter deals with the tent, or tabernacle proper, describing in succession the four thicknesses of different materials which were to make its covering (Exodus 26:1. _cf._ Exodus 36:8); the framework that should support them (Exodus 26:15; cf. Exodus 36:20); the inner partition or veil (Exodus 26:31; cf. Exodus 36:35 f.) and the contents of the interior ...

CANDLESTICK. lampstand....

The _veil_, to separate the Holy place from the Holy of holies, made of the same richly coloured tapestry, with figures of cherubim woven into it (the -work of the designer"), as the curtain (_v._1), and suspended on four gilt pillars of acacia wood, _vv._31 33 (cf. Exodus 36:35-36). The position of the ark, the table of the Presence-bread, and he candlestick, _vv._34 5 (cf. Exodus 40:20; Exodus 40:22; Exodus 40:24)....

AND THOU SHALT SET THE TABLE WITHOUT THE VAIL— The _table_ and _candlestick, food_ and _light,_ were to be placed opposite each other. From this description of the tabernacle, into which no light could enter, the use of the candlestick, which was lighted up every day, is manifest. The table, according to Ainsworth and others, being without the vail, signified that the twelve tribes, represented by the twelve cakes upon the table, were shut out from the mysteries of the Gospel, Hebrews 9:8; Hebrews 10:19 and Hebrews 11:39 and in respect of heaven itself, we all, in this life, are yet _without,_ and enter in only by the _anchor of hope,_...