84This was the dedication of the altar, in the day when it was anointed, by the princes of Israel: twelve chargers of silver, twelve silver bowls, twelve spoons of gold:
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And the princes offered for dedicating of the altar in the day that it was anointed, even the princes offered their offering before the altar.
And it came to pass on the day that Moses had fully set up the tabernacle, and had anointed it, and sanctified it, and all the instruments thereof, both the altar and all the vessels thereof, and had anointed them, and sanctified them;
And some of the chief of the fathers, when they came to the house of the LORD which is at Jerusalem, offered freely for the house of God to set it up in his place: …
We have an altar, whereof they have no right to eat which serve the tabernacle.
And the wall of the city had twelve foundations, and in them the names of the twelve apostles of the Lamb.
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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 10-89)We have here an account of the great solemnity of dedicating the altars, both that of burnt-offerings and that of incense; they had been sanctified before, when they were anointed ( Lev. 8:10 ; 11 ), but now they were handselled, as it were, by the princes, with their free-will offerings. They began the use of them with rich presents, great expressions of joy and gladness, and extraordinary respec…
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