Exodus 40:2

Expositor's Dictionary of Texts - Exodus 40:1-38

Exodus 40:2 What makes worship impressive is just its publicity, its external manifestation, its sound, its splendour, its observance universally and visibly, holding its sway through all the details both of our outward and of our inward life. Joubert. All the charm of ritual and ceremonial in worship has for Pater an indefinable and constant attraction. He is for ever recurring to it, because it seems to him to interpret and express an emotion, a need of the human spirit, whose concern is to... read more

Arno Clemens Gaebelein

Arno Gaebelein's Annotated Bible - Exodus 40:1-38

7. The Tabernacle Set Up, the Finished Work and the Glory CHAPTER 40 1. Jehovah gives the directions (Exodus 40:1-15 ) 2. Moses’ obedience (Exodus 40:16 ) 3. The tabernacle set up (Exodus 40:17-19 ) 4. The ark brought in (Exodus 40:20-21 ) 5. The furniture placed and the offerings brought (Exodus 40:22-29 ) 6. The laver and the court (Exodus 40:30-33 ) 7. The glory of the Lord filled the tabernacle (Exodus 40:34-38 ) While the people had offered and the chosen workmen labored in... read more

John Calvin

Geneva Study Bible - Exodus 40:2

40:2 On the {a} first day of the first month shalt thou set up the tabernacle of the tent of the congregation.(a) After that Moses had been 40 days and 40 nights in the mountain, that is, from the beginning of August to the tenth of September, he came down, and caused this work to be done: which when finished, was set up in Abib, half March and half April. read more

L.M. Grant

L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible - Exodus 40:1-38

THE TABERNACLE ERECTED AND ARRANGED (vs.1-33) About one year had elapsed after the Passover in Egypt. Now the Lord instructs Moses to set up the tabernacle on the first day of the first month. The first article of furniture then mentioned is the ark (v.3), to be placed inside the tabernacle, for this speaks of Christ as the Sustainer of the throne of God. Therefore it had a place of real separation, for it had to be separate even from the table, the lampstand and the incense altar, for these... read more

James Gray

James Gray's Concise Bible Commentary - Exodus 40:1-38

THE TABERNACLE ERECTED The closing chapters detail the execution of the plan of the Tabernacle previously revealed. In the first we are told of the offerings the people made for the work, in the next four the progress of the building is recorded, and the last we have the completion and acceptance of the whole on God’s part. NOTE (1) that an important principle in the gifts was the willingness of those who gave (Exodus 35:5 ); (2) the women contributed as well as the men (Exodus 35:22 ); (3)... read more

Robert Hawker

Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary - Exodus 40:1-2

Numbers 7:1 . It was just one year, wanting only 14 days, from the time of the people's coming out of Egypt, to the consecration of the tabernacle. Memorable providences demand suitable memorandums. 2 Chronicles 29:17 . read more

George Haydock

George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary - Exodus 40:2

Month of the second year, ver. 15. The first day of every month was kept with some degree of solemnity, though it was not a day of rest. (Numbers xxxiii. 11.; 1 Kings xx. 5.; &c.) (Calmet) read more

Matthew Henry

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on the Bible - Exodus 40:1-15

1-15 When a new year begins, we should seek to serve God better than the year before. In half a year the tabernacle was completed. When the hearts of numbers are earnest in a good cause, much may be done in a short time; and when the commandments of God are continually attended to, as the rule of working, all will be done well. The high-priesthood was in the family of Aaron till Christ came, and in Him, the substance of all these shadows, it continues for ever. read more

Frank Binford Hole

F. B. Hole's Old and New Testament Commentary - Exodus 40:1-38

Exodus 40 The closing chapter of Exodus falls into three sections. First, verses Exo_40:1-15 which give the instructions delivered to Moses by the Lord, as to the erection of the tabernacle and its contents and the installing of the priests. Second, verses Exo_40:16-33 , the record of the careful obedience of Moses, so that everything was carried out in accordance with the divine instructions. Verse Exo_40:33 ends with the words, "So Moses finished the work." This carries our minds on to... read more

Paul E. Kretzmann

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann - Exodus 40:1-16

The Tabernacle Set Up v. 1. And the Lord spake unto Moses, saying, v. 2. On the first day of the first month shalt thou set up the Tabernacle of the Tent of the Congregation. This was on the first of Nisan, or Abib, at the beginning of the second year after the children of Israel had left Egypt. The Tabernacle was to be in readiness for the first anniversary of the Passover Festival. v. 3. And thou shalt put therein the Ark of the Testimony, where the Decalog, the testimony of the Lord to... read more