20And he made boards for the tabernacle of shittim wood, standing up.
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And rams' skins dyed red, and badgers' skins, and shittim wood,
And they shall make an ark of shittim wood: two cubits and a half shall be the length thereof, and a cubit and a half the breadth thereof, and a cubit and a half the height thereof.
And I made an ark of shittim wood, and hewed two tables of stone like unto the first, and went up into the mount, having the two tables in mine hand.
And thou shalt make boards for the tabernacle of shittim wood standing up. …
And Israel abode in Shittim, and the people began to commit whoredom with the daughters of Moab.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 14-34)Here, 1. The shelter and special protection that the church is under are signified by the curtains of hair-cloth, which were spread over the tabernacle, and the covering of rams’ skins and badgers’ skins over them, Exod. 36:14-19. God has provided for his people a shadow from the heat, and a covert from storm and rain , Isa. 4:6. They are armed against all weathers; the sun and the moon shall not…
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