Matthew Henry on Exodus 25:10-22
The first thing which is here ordered to be made is the ark with its appurtenances, the furniture of the most holy place, and the special token of God's presence, for which the tabernacle was erected to be the receptacle.
I. The ark itself was a chest, or coffer, in which the two tables of the law, written with the finger of God, were to be honourably deposited, and carefully kept. The dimensions of it are exactly ordered; if the Jewish cubit was, as some learned men compute, three inches longer than our half-yard (twenty-one inches in all), this chest or cabinet was about fifty-two inches long, thirty-one broad, and thirty-one deep. It was overlaid within and without with thin plates of gol…
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rings--staples for the poles, with which it was to be carried from place to place.
Adam Clarke on Exodus 25:11
A crown of gold round about - A border, or, as the Septuagint have it, κυματια χρυσα στεπτα κυκλω, waves of gold wreathed round about.
John Gill on Exodus 25:13
And thou shall make staves of shittim wood,.... Of the same, wood the ark was made of, see Exodus 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.
John Calvin on Exodus 25:1-22
Exodus 25:1-22
1. And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
1. Et loquutus est Jehova ad Mosen, dicendo:
2. Speak unto the children of Israel, that they bring me an offering: of every man that giveth it willingly with his heart ye shall take my offering.
2. Alloquere filios Israel ut tollant mihi levationem: ab omni viro cujus cor voluntarie dederit illam, sumetis levationem meam.
3. And this is the offering which ye shall take of them; gold, and silver, and brass,
3. Ista autem est oblatio quam capietis ab eis, aurum et argentum, et aes,
4. And blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine linen, and goats' hair,
4. Et hyacinthum, et purpuram, et vermiculum cocci, et byssum, et pilos caprar…
