Two tenons must be connected to each other for each frame. Make all the frames of the tabernacle in this way.
Boards without grace in the heart are like curtains without boards: shaken by every wind and soon falling. God's tabernacle was strong as well as fine, and so must our profession be. The new Jerusalem needs no gilded boards; its glory far exceeds the old, for wisdom outweighs all the gold and silver that ever adorned a tent.
AI summary
Commenting on Exodus 26:15-30
And thou shalt make the boards for the tabernacle,.... As in the manner before described, so in number as follows: twenty boards on the south side southward; which being a cubit and a half broad, made the length of the tabernacle fifteen yards according to the common account; but if these were cubits of twenty one inches, then its length was much greater.
Exo 26:17 Every board was to have two ידות (lit., hands or holders) to hold them upright, pegs therefore; and they were to be “bound to one another” (משׁלּב, from שׁלב in Chald. to connect, hence שׁלבּים in 1Ki 7:28, the corner plates that hold together the four sides of a chest), not “pegged into one another,” but joined together by a fastening dovetailed into...