9And he made the court: on the south side southward the hangings of the court were of fine twined linen, an hundred cubits:
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And thou shalt make the court of the tabernacle: for the south side southward there shall be hangings for the court of fine twined linen of an hundred cubits long for one side: …
God is greatly to be feared in the assembly of the saints, and to be had in reverence of all them that are about him.
Enter into his gates with thanksgiving, and into his courts with praise: be thankful unto him, and bless his name.
My soul longeth, yea, even fainteth for the courts of the LORD: my heart and my flesh crieth out for the living God.
And thou shalt set up the court round about, and hang up the hanging at the court gate.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 9-20)The walls of the court, or church-yard, were like the rest curtains or hangings, made according to the appointment, Exod. 27:9-19 This represented the state of the Old-Testament church: it was a garden enclosed; the worshippers were then confined to a little compass. But the enclosure being of curtains only intimated that the confinement of the church in one particular nation was not to be perpetu…
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