PUBLIC-DOMAIN CHRISTIAN BOOK
John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible — Exodus
Gill, John, 1697-1771 · 275,869 words · 607 reading sections
Exodus 23:14
Exodus 23:14 Ver. 14. Three times thou shall keep a feast unto me in the year. The feast of the passover, on the fourteenth of the month Nisan or March; and the feast of weeks or pentecost fifty days after that; and the feast of tabernacles on the fifteenth day of Tisri or September.…
55 wordsSECTION 362Exodus 23:15
Exodus 23:15 Ver. 15. Thou shalt keep the feast of unleavened bread,.... Which began on the fourteenth of the month Abib or Nisan, and lasted seven days, during which time no leavened bread was to be eaten by the Israelites, or to be in their houses, of which see the notes on: See Gill on "Ex 12:15" See Gill on "Ex 1…
428 wordsSECTION 363Exodus 23:16
Exodus 23:16 Ver. 16. And the feast of harvest,.... This is the second feast, the feast of wheat harvest, between which and barley harvest were fifty days; or between the firstfruits of the one and the first fruits of the other were seven weeks, as Aben Ezra observes, and was sometimes called the feast of weeks; at wh…
274 wordsSECTION 364Exodus 23:17
Exodus 23:17 Ver. 17. Three times in the year all thy males shall appear before the Lord thy God. In the city of Jerusalem, when they were come into the land of Canaan, and the temple was there built: here they were to show themselves before the Lord as being his, and devoted to his service; concerning which the Misni…
119 wordsSECTION 365Exodus 23:18
Exodus 23:18 Ver. 18. Thou shall not offer the blood of my sacrifice with leavened bread,.... This belongs to the feast of the passover; for, as all the Jewish writers agree, this sacrifice is the sacrifice of the passover, as it is sometimes called, see Ex 12:27 now when the paschal lamb was killed, and its blood she…
4,000 wordsSECTION 366Exodus 24:1
Exodus 24:1 INTRODUCTION TO EXODUS 24 In this chapter we have an account that Moses was ordered to come up to the Lord alone, Ex 24:1, but that before he did go up, he related to the people all the above laws delivered to him, which they promised obedience to, and so a covenant was made between God and the people by …
392 wordsSECTION 367Exodus 24:2
Exodus 24:2 Ver. 2. And Moses alone shall come near the Lord,.... Into the cloud where he was, and talk with him face to face, as a man talketh with his friend; which was great nearness indeed, and a peculiar favour and high honour was this: but they shall not come nigh; Aaron, Nadab, and Abihu, and the seventy elder…
132 wordsSECTION 368Exodus 24:3
Exodus 24:3 Ver. 3. And Moses came and told the people all the words of the Lord, and all the judgments,.... Which according to Jarchi were the seven commands given to the sons of Noah, the laws concerning the sabbath, and honouring parents, the red heifer, and the judgments at Marah; but all these they were acquainte…
278 wordsSECTION 369Exodus 24:4
Exodus 24:4 Ver. 4. And Moses wrote all the words of the Lord,.... Jarchi says, all from the creation, to the giving of the law, and the commands at Marah; but though these were written by him, yet not at this time; but as Aben Ezra more truly observes, what are mentioned in this "parashah", or section, or what is con…
224 wordsSECTION 370Exodus 24:5
Exodus 24:5 Ver. 5. And he sent young men of the children Israel,.... To the altar under the hill he had these young men, according to Jarchi, were the firstborn of the children of Israel; and so the Targums Onkelos and Jonathan; and the latter adds, "for unto this hour the worship was among the firstborn, as yet the…
196 wordsSECTION 371Exodus 24:6
Exodus 24:6 Ver. 6. And Moses took half of the blood, and put it in basins,.... Half of the blood of the above sacrifices, this he put into basins, and set by, in order to sprinkle on the people: and half of the blood he sprinkled on the altar; the Targum of Onkelos adds, to atone for the people. But the altar here s…
96 wordsSECTION 372Exodus 24:7
Exodus 24:7 Ver. 7. And he took the book of the covenant,.... Which contained the words of the Lord he is said to write, Ex 24:4, and consisted both of laws and judgments required of the people, and to which they had given their assent, and promised obedience to; and of promises made by the Lord of sending his angel b…
245 wordsSECTION 373Exodus 24:8
Exodus 24:8 Ver. 8. And Moses took the blood,.... The other half of the blood which was in the basins: and sprinkled it on the people; not on the whole body of the people, who could not be brought nigh enough, and were too numerous to be all sprinkled with it; though the apostle so expresses it, a part being put for …
241 wordsSECTION 374Exodus 24:9
Exodus 24:9 Ver. 9. Then went up Moses and Aaron, Nadab and Abihu,.... After the above things were done, the words of the Lord were told the people, and the book of the covenant read unto them, to which they agreed, sacrifices were offered, and the blood of them sprinkled on the altar, and on the people. The Samaritan…
93 wordsSECTION 375Exodus 24:10
Exodus 24:10 Ver. 10. And they saw the God of Israel,.... The Targum of Jonathan restrains this to Nadab and Abihu whereas it is doubtless true of Moses and Aaron, and the seventy elders, who all saw him, and who were witnesses to the people that it was a divine Person that spoke to Moses, and delivered the laws unto …
552 wordsSECTION 376Exodus 24:11
Exodus 24:11 Ver. 11. And upon the nobles of the children of Israel he laid not his hand,.... Which some interpret of his hand of prophecy, and of the measure of the Spirit, such an one as Moses had, and by virtue of which he lived forty days and nights without eating and drinking; but these not having such a measure …
263 wordsSECTION 377Exodus 24:12
Exodus 24:12 Ver. 12. And the Lord said unto Moses, come up to me into the mount,.... For as yet Moses was not got up to the top of the mount, only up some part of it with the elders, though at some distance from the people: but now he is bid to come up higher: and be there; continue there, as he did six days after t…
200 wordsSECTION 378Exodus 24:13
Exodus 24:13 Ver. 13. And Moses rose up, and his minister Joshua,.... In order to go up higher on the mount. Joshua, and he only, was to go up higher with him, though not to the top of the mount, at least not into the cloud upon it, as Moses did. Joshua was his minister or servant, and waited upon him wherever he went…
296 wordsSECTION 379Exodus 24:14
Exodus 24:14 Ver. 14. And he said unto the elders,.... The seventy elders which were selected out of the several tribes of Israel, and now about to return to the camp: tarry ye here for us; meaning himself and Joshua, who was going with him: until we come again unto you; perhaps Moses might not know how long his sta…
198 wordsSECTION 380Exodus 24:15
Exodus 24:15 Ver. 15. And Moses went up into the mount,.... To the top of it, and as it seems alone, leaving Joshua behind in a lower part of the mountain: and a cloud covered the mount; in which cloud Jehovah was.…
43 wordsSECTION 381Exodus 24:16
Exodus 24:16 Ver. 16. And the glory of the Lord abode upon Mount Sinai,.... The divine Shechinah or Majesty, some visible token of it, an exceeding great brightness and splendour: and the cloud covered it six days; either the glory of the Lord, so that it could not be seen it had been; or the mount, as Jarchi; but th…
247 wordsSECTION 382Exodus 24:17
Exodus 24:17 Ver. 17. And the sight of the glory of the Lord was like devouring fire on the top of the mount,.... For when God spoke out of the cloud, the glory of the Lord flashed out like devouring fire; it was not devouring fire, but it was like it; it was like a great blaze of fire, which consumes all that is in i…
117 wordsSECTION 383Exodus 24:18
Exodus 24:18 Ver. 18. And Moses went into the midst of the cloud,.... Where the glory of God was, and he must at this time be endowed with more than ordinary courage to enter into it, when the glory of the Lord flashed out of it like flames of fire; yet being called of God he was not intimidated, but with great sereni…
315 wordsSECTION 384Exodus 25:1
Exodus 25:1 INTRODUCTION TO EXODUS 25 In this chapter an order is given for a freewill offering towards various things for the worship and service of God, and the materials to be offered, which would be useful and acceptable, are mentioned particularly, Ex 25:1, as also another order to build a sanctuary for God, aft…
181 wordsSECTION 385Exodus 25:2
Exodus 25:2 Ver. 2. Speak unto the children of Israel,.... That is, when he should go down from the mountain to the camp: that they bring me an offering; the Targums of Onkelos and Jonathan call it a "separation": something separated from their substance, and devoted to the service of God, and for the use of the sanc…
322 wordsSECTION 386Exodus 25:3
Exodus 25:3 Ver. 3. And this is the offering which ye shall take of them,.... That is, some one or other of the following things were to be taken of each of them that had a heart, and it was in the power of their hands to give; it was not expected that something of each of these should be had of everyone, but every ma…
376 wordsSECTION 387Exodus 25:4
Exodus 25:4 Ver. 4. And blue, and purple, and scarlet,.... The Jewish doctors are much divided about the sense of the words so rendered by us; some will have one colour, and some another meant; but, according to those learned men, who have taken much pains in searching into the meaning of them, as Bochart and Braunius…
298 wordsSECTION 388Exodus 25:5
Exodus 25:5 Ver. 5. And rams' skins died red,.... Of these were made a covering for the tent or tabernacle: and badgers' skins, which were for the same use: the Septuagint version calls them hyacinth or blue skins; according to which, they seem to be the rams' skins died blue; and so Josephus {b} seems to have unders…
443 wordsSECTION 389Exodus 25:6
Exodus 25:6 Ver. 6. Oil for the light,.... For the light of the lamps in the candlestick: this was oil olive, as the Targum of Jonathan, and so Jarchi, see Ex 27:20, spices for anointing oil; for the anointing of Aaron and his sons, and the tabernacle and its vessels, such as pure myrrh, sweet cinnamon, sweet calamus…
109 wordsSECTION 390Exodus 25:7
Exodus 25:7 Ver. 7. Onyx stones,.... So called from their likeness to the nail of a man's finger: the Targum of Onkelos calls them stones of beryl; and the Targum of Jonathan gems of beryl; and the Septuagint version, stones of sardius; and some take them to be the sardonyx stones, which have a likeness both to the on…
135 wordsSECTION 391Exodus 25:8
Exodus 25:8 Ver. 8. And let them make me a sanctuary,.... An holy place to dwell in, and so called from his dwelling in it, as follows: that I may dwell amongst them; in the midst of them, where the tabernacle was always placed; and there he dwelt as their King and their God, to whom they might have recourse on all o…
231 wordsSECTION 392Exodus 25:9
Exodus 25:9 Ver. 9. According to all that I show thee,.... That is, the sanctuary was to be made in all respects exactly according to the view of it that Moses now had upon the mount from God, and which he was to communicate to the workmen for their instruction and direction; after the pattern of the tabernacle, and …
193 wordsSECTION 393Exodus 25:10
Exodus 25:10 Ver. 10. And they shall make an ark of shittim wood,.... A chest or coffer to put things into, and into this were to be put the two tables of stone on which the law was written, and it was to be made of the wood before mentioned, Ex 25:5 this was a very eminent type of Christ, with whom the name of an ark…
394 wordsSECTION 394Exodus 25:11
Exodus 25:11 Ver. 11. And thou shalt overlay it with pure gold,.... Not gild it, but put a plate of pure gold over it: within and without shalt thou overlay it; so that nothing of the wood could be seen: this may denote the glory of Christ in both his natures, divine and human, the riches of his person and office, wh…
183 wordsSECTION 395Exodus 25:12
Exodus 25:12 Ver. 12. And thou shalt cast four rings of gold for it,.... For which a mould was to be made, and the gold being melted was poured into it, and so the rings were fashioned: and put them in the corners thereof; or, "in its feet", as Aben Ezra, though Jarchi says it had no feet; but as the word used so sig…
182 wordsSECTION 396Exodus 25:13
Exodus 25:13 Ver. 13. And thou shall make staves of shittim wood,.... Of the same, wood the ark was made of, see Ex 25:5 and overlay them with gold; cover them with plates of gold, so that they appeared to be all of gold, the wood being not to be seen.…
53 wordsSECTION 397Exodus 25:14
Exodus 25:14 Ver. 14. And thou shall put the staves into the rings by the sides of the ark,.... This shows for what use the rings were; namely, to put the staves into them and the use of the staves thus put was, that the ark might be borne with them; which staves overlaid with gold, and put into golden rings, figured…
107 wordsSECTION 398Exodus 25:15
Exodus 25:15 Ver. 15. The staves shall be in the rings of the ark,.... Not only be put into them, but remain in them, yea, always: they shall not be taken from it; or, as the Septuagint version is, be immovable; so that those gold rings in the ark may signify the churches of Christ, which are instrumental to bear his…
164 wordsSECTION 399Exodus 25:16
Exodus 25:16 Ver. 16. And thou shall put into the ark the testimony that I shall give thee. Which was the principal use of it: by the "testimony" is meant the law, written on two tables of stone; so called, because it was a testification of the mind and will of God, what he would have done or omitted; and as the Israe…
175 wordsSECTION 400Exodus 25:17
Exodus 25:17 Ver. 17. And thou shall make a mercy seat of pure gold,.... Or "covering" {n}; so Jarchi and Aben Ezra; for so the word properly signifies; and what is meant was no more than a cover of the ark, which was open at the top, and this was the lid of it, and exactly answered to it, as appears by the dimensions…
720 wordsSECTION 401Exodus 25:18
Exodus 25:18 Ver. 18. And thou shalt make two cherubim of gold,.... Which some take to be in the form of birds, and others of winged animals, such as the like were never seen, so Josephus; the Jews commonly suppose they were in the form of young men, which they observe the word signifies in the Chaldee language; other…
517 wordsSECTION 402Exodus 25:19
Exodus 25:19 Ver. 19. And make one cherub on the one end, and the other cherub on the other end,.... The situation of the cherubim is particularly explained, lest, as Jarchi observes, it should be thought that there were two at both ends of the mercy seat; whereas there were only one at one end, and another at the oth…
5,147 wordsSECTION 403Exodus 26:1
Exodus 26:1 INTRODUCTION TO EXODUS 26 In this chapter a description is given of the tabernacle itself, and first of its inward curtains, of their number, matter, length, and breadth, and the manner of coupling them together, Ex 26:1, and then of the outward curtains of it, their number, matter, length, and breadth, a…
756 wordsSECTION 404Exodus 26:2
Exodus 26:2 Ver. 2. The length of one curtain shall be twenty eight cubits,.... Or fourteen yards: and the breadth of one curtain four cubits; or two yards; according to the common notion of a cubit being half a yard; but if, as Dr. Cumberland says, the Jewish and Egyptian cubit was three inches longer, this will mak…
89 wordsSECTION 405Exodus 26:3
Exodus 26:3 Ver. 3. The five curtains shall be coupled together one to another,.... Five of the ten curtains were to be sewed together, and make as it were one curtain: and other five curtains shall be coupled one to another: the other five were to be joined together in like manner, and so made two large pieces of ta…
82 wordsSECTION 406Exodus 26:4
Exodus 26:4 Ver. 4. And thou shall make loops of blue upon the edge of the one curtain,.... The first large curtain, consisting of five sewed together, at the edge of that: from the selvedge in the coupling; where it was to be coupled with the other great curtain; "loops" or "eyelet holes" {h}, were to be made: these…
144 wordsSECTION 407Exodus 26:5
Exodus 26:5 Ver. 5. Fifty loops shalt thou make in the one curtain,.... In the first great curtain, or in the outermost of the five that were sewed together: and fifty loops shalt thou make in the edge of the curtain that is in the coupling of the second; as many also were to be made in the outermost of the second gr…
122 wordsSECTION 408Exodus 26:6
Exodus 26:6 Ver. 6. And thou shalt make fifty taches of gold,.... Which some render "buttons" {i}, others "hooks" {k} they seem to be "clasps"; the use of them follows: and couple the curtains together with the taches; the two great curtains were made out of the ten, which had in them fifty {i} yorq "fibulas", Tigur…
72 wordsSECTION 409Exodus 26:7
Exodus 26:7 Ver. 7. And thou shalt make curtains of goats' hair,.... Jarchi calls it the flower or down of goats, the softer and finer part of their hair, which was spun by women, as appears from Ex 35:26, and was made up into a stuff somewhat like our camelot; these curtains were coarser than the former, and were mad…
336 wordsSECTION 410Exodus 26:8
Exodus 26:8 Ver. 8. The length of one curtain shall be thirty cubits, and the breadth of one curtain four cubits,.... The breadth of them is the same with the linen curtains, but the length of them two cubits more; the reason of which was, that they might hang down lower on either side, and the better preserve them fr…
78 wordsSECTION 411Exodus 26:9
Exodus 26:9 Ver. 9. And thou shall couple five curtains by themselves,.... And make one large curtain of them, as was ordered with respect to the linen curtains: and six curtains by themselves; as there were eleven of them, such a division was made of five into one large curtain, and six into another; and as that whi…
232 wordsSECTION 412Exodus 26:10
Exodus 26:10 Ver. 10. And thou shalt make fifty loops on the edge of the one curtain, that is outmost in the coupling,.... Just in like manner, and in the same place where they were ordered to be put on the linen curtains, only these are not said to be of blue, but perhaps were wrought with goats hair: and fifty loops…
92 wordsSECTION 413Exodus 26:11
Exodus 26:11 Ver. 11. And thou shalt make fifty taches of brass,.... As these curtains were coarser, and also the loops, so the taches, hooks, or clasps, were made of meaner metal, but answered the purpose of joining and coupling together full as well: and put the taches into the loops; one end of the hook or clasp in…
118 wordsSECTION 414Exodus 26:12
Exodus 26:12 Ver. 12. And the remnant that remaineth of the curtains of the tent,.... Of the goat hair curtains, which were one more than the linen curtains: the half curtain that remaineth; for the other half extended to the east end of it, at the entrance of the tabernacle, and hung down and was doubled there, and …
199 wordsSECTION 415Exodus 26:13
Exodus 26:13 Ver. 13. And a cubit on the one side, and a cubit on the other side o that which remaineth in the length of the curtains of the tent,.... The curtains of the tent, or the goat hair curtains, were two cubits longer than the other, and these are the two cubits, one on one side and the other on the other, wh…
167 wordsSECTION 416Exodus 26:14
Exodus 26:14 Ver. 14. And thou shalt make a covering for the tent of rams' skins dyed red,.... This was a covering that was put over the curtains of goats' skin; but whether it went all over them, or only upon the roof of the tabernacle they covered, to keep out the rains from soaking through, is not certain, nor very…
259 wordsSECTION 417Exodus 26:15
Exodus 26:15 Ver. 15. And thou shalt make the boards for the tabernacle,.... Which were the pillars and supports, and properly the walls of it, which gave it its firmness and security, or otherwise the curtains would have been blown about by every wind: they were to be made of shittim wood standing up; just as they g…
135 wordsSECTION 418Exodus 26:16
Exodus 26:16 Ver. 16. Ten cubits shall be the length of a board,.... Or five yards, according to the common cubit: and a cubit and a half shall be the breadth of one board; or three quarters of a yard; and from hence we may learn what were the height and the length of the tabernacle; according to the common computati…
145 wordsSECTION 419Exodus 26:17
Exodus 26:17 Ver. 17. Two tenons shall there be on one board,.... Every board was to be so cut and shaped at the lower end of it, as to have, as it were, "two hands" {r}, as in the original, to enter into, lay hold on, and fasten in mortises: set in order one against another; at a proper distance from each other, as …
93 wordsSECTION 420Exodus 26:18
Exodus 26:18 Ver. 18. And thou shalt make the boards for the tabernacle,.... As in the manner before described, so in number as follows: twenty boards on the south side southward; which being a cubit and a half broad, made the length of the tabernacle fifteen yards according to the common account; but if these were c…
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