12And thou shalt cast four rings of gold for it, and put them in the four corners thereof; and two rings shall be in the one side of it, and two rings in the other side of it.
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
And the staves shall be put into the rings, and the staves shall be upon the two sides of the altar, to bear it.
And he put the staves into the rings on the sides of the altar, to bear it withal; he made the altar hollow with boards.
The staves shall be in the rings of the ark: they shall not be taken from it.
And thou shalt overlay the boards with gold, and make their rings of gold for places for the bars: and thou shalt overlay the bars with gold.
And thou shalt make for it four rings of gold, and put the rings in the four corners that are on the four feet thereof.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 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…
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