31And he made bars of shittim wood; five for the boards of the one side of the tabernacle,
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And thou shalt make bars of shittim wood; five for the boards of the one side of the tabernacle, …
And thou shalt make the staves of shittim wood, and overlay them with gold, that the table may be borne with them.
And thou shalt make the staves of shittim wood, and overlay them with gold.
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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