Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Exodus 26:26
By bars you may understand either, 1. Several rows or orders of bars, one bar beginning at the end of the other, and each containing four cubits in length, and altogether twenty cubits, which was the length of the tabernacle; or, 2. Single bars, which seem truer, 1. Because the word signifies bars, not rows of bars; and why should we go from the proper signification of the word without cause? 2. If bars be put for rows of bars, there must be five rows of bars on a side, there being so many bars... read more
Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible - Exodus 26:1-37
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 26:1-2 Chronicles :. cf. Exodus 36:8-Psalms :); the framework that should support them ( Exodus 26:15-Amos :; cf. Exodus 36:20-Nahum :); the inner partition or veil ( Exodus 26:31-Micah :; cf. Exodus 36:35 f.) and the contents of the interior ( Exodus 26:34 f; cf. Exodus 40:20; cf. Exodus 40:22;... read more