30And there were eight boards; and their sockets were sixteen sockets of silver, under every board two sockets.
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And they shall be eight boards, and their sockets of silver, sixteen sockets; two sockets under one board, and two sockets under another board.
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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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