Exodus 37:17

_AND HE MADE THE CANDLESTICK OF PURE GOLD: OF BEATEN WORK MADE HE THE CANDLESTICK; HIS SHAFT, AND HIS BRANCH, HIS BOWLS, HIS KNOPS, AND HIS FLOWERS, WERE OF THE SAME:_ He made the candlestick of pure gold. Practical readers will be apt to say, 'Why do such works with the hammer, when they could have been cast so much easier-a process they were well acquainted with?' The only answer that can be given is, that it was done according to order. We have no doubt but there were reasons for so distinctive an order-something significant which has not been revealed to us (Napier). The whole of that sacred building was arranged with a view to inculcate through every part of its apparatus the great fundamental principles of revelation. Every object was symbolical of important truth-every piece of furniture was made the hieroglyphic of a doctrine or a duty-on the floor and along the sides of that mo...

Verse Exodus 37:17. _HE MADE THE CANDLESTICK_] See this described in the note on Exodus 25:31. Exodus 25:31, Exodus 25:31....

EXPOSITION EXODUS 37:1 THE FURTHER PROGRESS OF THE WORK THE CONSTRUCTION OF THE FURNITURE FOR THE HOLY OF HOLIES (Exodus 37:1, Exodus 37:9) AND FOR THE HOLY PLACE (Exodus 37:10-2) THE MAKING OF

Exodus 37:1....

CHAPTER 37 THE ARK, THE TABLE, THE CANDLESTICK, AND THE INCENSE ALTAR, THE OIL AND INCENSE _ 1. The ark made by Bezaleel (Exodus 37:1)_ 2. The table of shittim wood (Exodus 37:10) 3. The candlestick (Exodus 37:17) 4. The incense altar (Exodus 37:25) 5. The oil and incense (Exodus 37:29) The word of Jehovah is literally carried out, because the Holy Spirit was in the workmen. Compare verses 1-9 with 25:10-22; verses 10-16 with 25:23-30; verses 17-24 with 25:31-40; verses 25-28 with 30:1-10; verse 29 with 30:

EXODUS 37. P S. FURNITURE OF THE TENT. The several items are named in due order: the Ark (Exodus 37:1; cf. Exodus 25:10), the Table (Exodus 37:10; cf. Exodus 25:23), the Lampstand (Exodus 37:17; cf. Exodus 25:31), the Altar of Incense (Exodus 37:25; cf. Exodus 30:1 Ps., but not in LXX), the ho

AND HE MADE THE CANDLESTICK, &C.— The word of God is the golden candlestick, pure in itself, without alloy, and serving to enlighten us for all the spiritual services whereunto we are consecrated. May we know how to value the inestimable blessing, and never provoke God to remove his blessed and holy word from us by our sins against the light of it....

THE TEXT OF EXODUS TRANSLATION 37 And Be-zal-el made the ark of acacia wood: two cubits and a half was the length of it, and a cubit and a half the breadth of it, and a cubit and a half the height of it. (2) And he overlaid it with pure gold within and without, and made a crown of gold to it round about. (3) And he cast for it four rings of gold, in the four feet thereof; even two rings on the one side of it, and two rings on the other side of it. (4) And he made staves of acacia wood, and overlaid them with gold. (5) And he put the staves into the rings on the sides of the ark, to bear the ark. (6) And he made a mercy-seat of pure gold: two cubits and a half _was_ the length thereof, and a cubit and a half the breadth thereof. (7) And he made two cher-u-bim of gold; of beaten work made he them, at the two ends of the mercy-seat; (8) one cher-ub at the one end, and one cher-ub at the oth...

37:17 candlestick (b-5) Or 'lamp-stand,' and so in vers. 18,19,20, and ch. 25.34....

1-9. The Ark and Mercy seat: see Exodus 25:10. 10-16. Table of Shewbread: see Exodus 25:23. 17-24. The Candlestick: see Exodus 25:31. 25-28. The Altar of Incense: see Exodus 30:1. This is mentioned here in its natural position along with the other furniture of the Holy Place....