Exodus 26:30-37

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Exodus 26:15-30

Very particular directions are here given about the boards of the tabernacle, which were to bear up the curtains, as the stakes of a tent which had need to be strong, Isa. 54:2. These boards had tenons which fell into the mortises that were made for them in silver bases. God took care to have every thing strong, as well as fine, in his tabernacle. Curtains without boards would have been shaken by every wind; but it is a good thing to have the heart established with grace, which is as the... read more

Matthew Henry

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Exodus 26:31-37

Two veils are here ordered to be made, 1. One for a partition between the holy place and the most holy, which not only forbade any to enter, but forbade them so much as to look into the holiest of all, Exod. 26:31, 33. Under that dispensation, divine grace was veiled, but now we behold it with open face, 2 Cor. 3:18. The apostle tells us (Heb. 9:8, 9) what was the meaning of this veil; it intimated that the ceremonial law could not make the comers thereunto perfect, nor would the observance of... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Exodus 26:30

And thou shall rear up the tabernacle ,.... When thus finished, and all the furniture belonging to it completed: according to the fashion thereof, which was showed thee in the mount ; this is the third time that this is observed to Moses in the account of the tabernacle; which shows how punctually God would have the pattern observed he had given him, and that all things might be particularly and exactly done according to it, see Hebrews 8:5 . read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Exodus 26:31

And thou shalt make a vail ,.... The use of this, as follows, was to divide the holy place from the most holy place in the tabernacle; it has its name from hardness, it being very stiff and strong, for it was made of thread six times doubled, and was four fingers thick, as the Jewish writers say: this vail may represent the sin of man, which separates between God and man, was removed by the death of Christ when the vail was rent, and so the way to heaven opened; or the obscurity of the legal... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Exodus 26:32

And thou shalt hang it upon four pillars of shittim wood, overlaid with gold ,.... For it was ten cubits long, and as many broad; and being of such a stiffness and thickness as it was, required so many pillars to support it: these pillars may signify the deity of Christ, which is the support of his human nature, and in which it has its personal subsistence, and gives all its actions and sufferings virtue and efficacy; and being of "shittim wood", which is incorruptible, may denote his... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Exodus 26:33

And thou shall hang up the vail under the taches ,.... Or clasps, which coupled the two grand curtains, or pieces of tapestry, each consisting of five curtains, of which the tabernacle was made, Exodus 26:6 , and by this it seems that the place where they met, and were clasped, was where the vail was hung between the holy and the most holy place: for, as Dr. Lightfoot F25 Works, vol, 1. p. 718. observes, according to the division of the house was the division of the curtains, the... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Exodus 26:34

And thou shalt put the mercy seat upon ark of the testimony ,.... With the cherubim of glory overshadowing it; all which were a representation of the way of man's salvation flowing from the mercy and grace of God, through the propitiation by Christ, and his perfect righteousness, by which the law is fulfilled; and all this is published in the Gospel by the ministers of it, signified by the cherubim: and these are all the things that were "in the most holy place"; and they were placed at the... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Exodus 26:35

And thou shalt set the table without the vail ,.... The table of shewbread, of which see Exodus 25:23 , this was not to be within the vail, but without it, in the holy place: and the candlestick opposite the table, of which see Exodus 25:31 , &c.; signifying, that in the church of God, in the present state of things, which the holy place was an emblem of, there are both food and light: the candlestick was placed on the side of the tabernacle, toward the south ; according to... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Exodus 26:36

And thou shalt make an hanging for the door of the tent ,.... At the east end of the tabernacle, which lay open and exposed, and for which as yet there was no provision; the west end of it, where stood the holy of holies, was enclosed with six boards, and two corner ones, Exodus 26:22 and the linen curtains hung down there to the silver bases, and so did the curtains of goats' hair, even to the ground, and half a curtain to spare, see Exodus 26:12 but for the east end, or entrance into... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Exodus 26:37

And thou shalt make for the hanging five pillars of shittim wood ,.... One at each corner of the entrance into the tabernacle, and the other three at a proper distance from each other, so as to make four ways for the priests to enter in at; as there might very well be, since there was a breadth of ten cubits, or five yards or more: and overlay them with gold ; with plates of gold, for a gild would soon wear off by continual use in passing and repassing. This is to be understood not of... read more

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