Construct twenty frames for the south side of the tabernacle,
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.
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Commenting on Exodus 26:15-30
And thou shall make forty sockets of silver under the twenty boards,.... Or bases (s), and which were properly the foundation of the tabernacle, on which it was settled and established; these sockets were the mortises for the two tenons of each board or plank to be placed in, and were as broad as the plank, and, joining each other, made one entire basis for...
The sockets, or bases, hold the tenons of the boards so they stand upright. The word 'southward' here shows the text was written in the desert, not Palestine; a man in Canaan would have no need to clarify what negeb means.
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Commenting on Exodus 26:18-21