Exodus 39:32

_AND THEY TIED UNTO IT A LACE OF BLUE, TO FASTEN IT ON HIGH UPON THE MITRE; AS THE LORD COMMANDED MOSES._ No JFB commentary on these verses....

32._Thus was all the work of the tabernacle_. A brief summary is now subjoined, whereby he indicates that in no part was there the least defect, and also declares that the children of Israel had so obeyed God’s commands, that the work itself varied in no respect from its pattern. “The children of Israel,” he says, “did according to all that the Lord commanded Moses, so did they;” whence we gather that no part of the building was impaired by any admixture. Afterwards it is added, that the tabernacle with its utensils and furniture was brought before Moses, and that all things were approved of by his judgment; for he is said to have “blessed them,” because they had duly and faithfully obeyed God’s command. This, however, was not a simple prayer, as of a private individual; but it was a promise of reward, such as might awaken confidence in the minds of the people, when they heard from the m...

32-43 The tabernacle was a type or emblem of Jesus Christ. As the Most High dwelt visibly within the sanctuary, even on the ark, so did he reside in the human nature and tabernacle of his dear Son; in Christ dwelt all the fulness of the Godhead bodily, Colossians 2:9. The tabernacle was a symbol of every real Christian. In the soul of every true follower of the Saviour the Father dwells, the object of his worship, and the author of his blessings. The tabernacle also typified the church of the Redeemer. The meanest and the mightiest are alike dear to the Father's love, freely exercised through faith in Christ. The tabernacle was a type and emblem of the heavenly temple, Revelation 21:3. What, then, will be the splendour of His appearance, when the cloud shall be withdrawn, and his faithful worshippers shall...

Verse Exodus 39:32. _DID ACCORDING TO ALL THAT THE LORD COMMANDED MOSES_] This refers to the command given Exodus 25:40; and Moses has taken care to _repeat_ every thing in the most circumstantial detail, to show that he had conscientiously observed all the directions he had received....

EXPOSITION EXODUS 39:1 THE FURTHER PROGRESS OF THE WORK—THE MAKING OF THE PRIESTS' DRESSES. EXODUS 39:32-2 THE GENERAL APPROVAL OF THE WORK BY MOSES. The entire work for the structure of the tabernacle being completed, it only remained for Bezaleel and Aholiab to take in band the priestly vestments, which had been prescribed with the greatest elaboration in...

THUS WAS ALL THE WORK OF THE TABERNACLE OF THE TENT OF THE CONGREGATION FINISHED,.... Both the tabernacle, consisting of the court, the holy place, and the most holy place, and the tent or covering that was over it, with all things appertaining to the service of it, as before described: AND THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL DID ACCORDING TO ALL THAT THE LORD COMMANDED MOSES, SO DID THEY: both the people in general, and the artificers in particular; the people brought gold, silver, and brass, c. as was proposed to them and the artificers wrought these and all other things, according to the directions and instructions they received....

CHAPTER 39 THE PRIESTLY GARMENTS AND THE WORK FINISHED _ 1. The material used (Exodus 39:1)_ 2. The ephod (Exodus 39:2) 3. The breastplate (Exodus 39:8) 4. The robe, the bells and pomegranates (Exodus 39:22) 5. The coats (Exodus 39:27) 6. The holy crown (Exodus 39:30) 7. The work finished (Exodus 39:32) All is done “as the Lor

EXODUS 39. P S. VESTMENTS AND SUMMARY. Exodus 39:1 a and Exodus 39:1 b are doublets, and Exodus 39:1 a perhaps once began a full account of the woven fabrics, now given in another place. The explanation in Exodus 39:3 as to the way in which they worked in the gold is new here. There is abridgment in some verses, and after a sentence concluding the full account of the constructive process a fresh summary follows, the workers being generalised (Exodus 39:32; Exodus 39:42) as the chil

TABERNACLE. Hebrew. _mishkan,_ habitation (App-40). and the children of Israel did, &c. Read "thus did the children of Israel, according", &c....

Subscription, in P's manner (cf. Genesis 2:1), to the entire enumeration (Exodus 36:8 to Exodus 39:31). _the_ DWELLING _of the tent of meeting_ the pleonasm, as Exodus 40:2; Exodus 40:6; Exodus 40:29; cf. _v._40. _and_, &c. for the form of sentence (in the Heb.), see on Exodus 7:6....