Exodus 25:9 NIV

Bridgeway Bible Commentary - Exodus 25:1-9

Click image for full-size version25:1-31:18 THE TABERNACLE AND THE PRIESTHOODPurpose of the tabernacleThe cloud on the mountain was only a temporary sign of God’s presence with his people. Now that Israel was beginning a new era, God gave the people a tabernacle, or tent, as a permanent sign that he dwelt among them and was part of them. He was the very centre of their national life. This tabernacle was known as the tent of meeting (39:32), for it was the place where God met with his people. It... read more

E.W. Bullinger

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Exodus 25:9

pattern . Compare Hebrews 8:5 . Not a plan, but a model. The reality is in heaven. So with the temple, later. 1 Chronicles 28:11-19 . With the utmost exactitude certain representative measurements given. Nine others, vital to construction, but not for significance, not given. Probably these Divine silences were to make any unauthorized structures impossible. These nine were: (1) Thickness of sides and bottom of ark; (2) thickness of mercy seat and details of cherubim; (3) thickness of table;... read more

James Burton Coffman

Coffman Commentaries on the Bible - Exodus 25:8-9

THE ORDER TO CONSTRUCT THE TABERNACLE"And let them make me a sanctuary, that I may dwell among them. 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.""Even so shall ye make it ..." No deviation whatever was to be allowed. Even all of the furniture was to be constructed according to Divine law, the size of each item, the height of each article, the materials out of which it was to be constructed, the form of... read more

Thomas Coke

Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - Exodus 25:9

Exodus 25:9. According to all— This verse might be rendered, more intelligibly perhaps, And ye shall make all things, according to the pattern of the tabernacle, and the pattern of all the instruments thereof, which I shall shew you; see Exo 25:40 and Hebrews 8:5. This verse, as well as that at the close of the chapter, seems to supply us with an abundant confutation of their opinion, who hold, that these sacred utensils, and, indeed, the whole Jewish ritual, were modelled after the pattern of... read more

Robert Jamieson; A. R. Fausset; David Brown

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - Exodus 25:9

9. According to all that I show thee, after the pattern of the tabernacle—The proposed erection could be, in the circumstances of the Israelites, not of a fixed and stable but of a temporary and movable description, capable of being carried about with them in their various sojournings. It was made after "the pattern" shown to Moses, by which is now generally understood, not that it was an unheard-of novelty, or an entirely original structure, for it is ascertained to have borne resemblance in... read more

Thomas Constable

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Exodus 25:1-9

2. Contributions for the construction of the sanctuary 25:1-9"Only voluntary gifts were acceptable as materials for the Lord’s house (Exodus 25:2; Exodus 35:3; Exodus 35:21-22; Exodus 35:29), since love rather than compulsion is the basis of all truly biblical giving (2 Corinthians 9:7)." [Note: Youngblood, p. 113.] Moses usually employed one of four different terms to describe the tabernacle each of which emphasizes one of its purposes, though other names also appear.1. Sanctuary (Exodus 25:8)... read more

John Dummelow

John Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible - Exodus 25:1-40

The Vessels of the SanctuaryChapters 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... read more

Charles John Ellicott

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - Exodus 25:9

(9) The pattern.—It has been maintained that God shewed to Moses (1) a material structure, furnished with material objects, as the model which he was to follow in making the Tabernacle and its appurtenances; (2) a pictorial representation of the whole; (3) a series of visions in which the forms were represented to the eye of the mind. The entire analogy of the Divine dealings is in favour of the last-mentioned view. read more

William Nicoll

Expositor's Dictionary of Texts - Exodus 25:1-40

Exodus 25:4 We know it to have been by Divine command that the Israelites, rescued from servitude, veiled the tabernacle with its rain of purple and scarlet, while the under sunshine flashed through the fall of the colour from its tenons of gold. Ruskin, Stones of Venice, (vol. 11.). References. XXV. 8. W. Allen Whitworth, The Sanctuary of God, p. 1. T. Champness, New Coins from Old Gold, p. 32. XXV. 9. T. M. Morris, Christian World Pulpit, vol. lxiv. 1903, p. 228. XXV. 10-22. Spurgeon, ... read more

William Nicoll

Expositor's Bible Commentary - Exodus 25:1-40

CHAPTER XXV.THE SHRINE AND ITS FURNITURE.Exodus 25:1-40The first direction given to Moses on the mountain is to prepare for the making of a tabernacle wherein God may dwell with man. For this he must invite offerings of various kinds, metals and gems, skins and fabrics, oil and spices; and the humblest man whose heart is willing may contribute toward an abode for Him Whom the heaven of heavens cannot contain.Strange indeed is the contrast between the mountain burning up to heaven, and the lowly... read more

Bridgeway Bible Commentary - Exodus 25:1-9

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Exodus 25:9

Coffman Commentaries on the Bible - Exodus 25:8-9

Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - Exodus 25:9

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - Exodus 25:9

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Exodus 25:1-9

John Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible - Exodus 25:1-40

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - Exodus 25:9

Expositor's Dictionary of Texts - Exodus 25:1-40

Expositor's Bible Commentary - Exodus 25:1-40

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