Exodus 27

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Exodus 27

In this chapter directions are given, I. Concerning the brazen altar for burnt-offerings, Exod. 27:1-8. II. Concerning the court of the tabernacle, with the hangings of it, Exod. 27:9-19. III. Concerning oil for the lamp, Exod. 27:20, 21. read more

Matthew Henry

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Exodus 27:1-8

As God intended in the tabernacle to manifest his presence among his people, so there they were to pay their devotions to him, not in the tabernacle itself (into that only the priests entered as God's domestic servants), but in the court before the tabernacle, where, as common subjects, they attended. There an altar was ordered to be set up, to which they must bring their sacrifices, and on which their priests must offer them to God: and this altar was to sanctify their gifts. Here they were... read more

Matthew Henry

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Exodus 27:9-19

Before the tabernacle there was to be a court or yard, enclosed with hangings of the finest linen that was used for tents. This court, according to the common computation of cubits, was fifty yards long, and twenty-five broad. Pillars were set up at convenient distances, in sockets of brass, the pillars filleted with silver, and silver tenter-hooks in them, on which the linen hangings were fastened: the hanging which served for the gate was finer than the rest, Exod. 27:16. This court was a... read more

Matthew Henry

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Exodus 27:20-21

We read of the candlestick in the twenty-fifth chapter; here is an order given for the keeping of the lamps constantly burning in it, else it was useless; in every candlestick there should be a burning and shining light; candlesticks without candles are as wells without water or as clouds without rain. Now, 1. The people were to provide the oil; from them the Lord's ministers must have their maintenance. Or, rather, the pure oil signified the gifts and graces of the Spirit, which are... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Exodus 27

INTRODUCTION TO EXODUS 27 This chapter treats of the altar of burnt offering, and of all things relative to it, Exodus 27:1 , of the court of the tabernacle, its hangings on each side, with pillars, sockets, and hooks for them, Exodus 27:9 and it is concluded with an order to the Israelites to bring oil olive for the lamp of the sanctuary, Exodus 27:20 . read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Exodus 27:1

And thou shall make an altar of shittim wood ,.... This is a different altar from that made of earth before the tabernacle was built, Exodus 20:24 and from the altar of incense, Exodus 30:1 this was to offer burnt offerings on, and was placed at the door of the tabernacle, in the court of the people, where they brought their sacrifices to the priests to offer for them: it stood in the open air, as it was proper it should, that the smoke or the sacrifices might ascend up and scatter. This... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Exodus 27:2

Which were either for ornament, or for keeping what was laid upon the altar from falling off, or for the fastening of the sacrifice to them, and were what criminals fled to for refuge, and laid hold on; and may denote the power of Christ, who is the horn of salvation to preserve his people from a final falling away, and from ruin and destruction, and his protection of those that fly to him for refuge; and these horns being at the corners of the altar may respect the four parts of the world,... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Exodus 27:3

And thou shall make his pans to receive his ashes ,.... Not to receive them in as they fell, but to gather them up in, and carry them away; and this was done every morning about cockcrowing, not much sooner nor later F3 Misn. Yoma, c. 1. sect. 8. & Maimon, in ib. : and his shovels ; to throw up the ashes together to be put into the pans; Jarchi describes this vessel to be like the cover of a brass pot, with a handle to it; the same we call a fire shovel: and his basins : to... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Exodus 27:4

And thou shalt, make for it a grate of network of brass ,.... Or "sieve", as in Amos 9:9 , it was a plate of brass with holes in it, to let through either the blood that drained from the parts of the sacrifice, or the ashes of it; for this was the focus or hearth, on which the sacrifice and the wood were laid and burnt: this, according to the Targum of Jonathan on Exodus 38:4 was to receive the coals and bones which fell from the altar: and so may denote the purity of Christ's sacrifice,... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Exodus 27:5

And thou shalt put it under the compass of the altar beneath ,.... That is, the grate was to be put within the square compass of the altar, in the hollow part of it, for the wood and sacrifice to be laid upon it: that the net may be even to the midst of the altar ; and as the altar was three cubits high, this net or grate was let down by chains to its rings a cubit and a half, and being of such a depth was capable of containing a great deal. read more

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