“You shall make a lampstand of pure gold. The lampstand shall be made of hammered work: its base, its stem, its cups, its calyxes, and its flowers shall be of one piece with it.
31. And thou shalt make a candlestick. God would have seven bright lamps burning day and night in the Tabernacle: first, that the people might know that they were directed by God Himself as to how they were to worship Him aright, and that a light was set before their eyes which might disperse all the darkness of error; and, secondly, lest they should obscure...
The lampstand was solid gold, not hollow, and magnificently wrought with ornamental knops and flowers, but far more than decoration, it spoke truth. The tabernacle had no windows because that old covenant dwelt in darkness; the sun of righteousness had not yet risen. Yet God did not leave them in silence: His Word was their lamp, the prophets were branches spreading its light through the ages. We have the same light still, though the world remains a dark place without it.
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Commenting on Exodus 25:31-40
Three bowls made like unto almonds, with a knop and a flower in one branch,.... There were three bowls or cups in the form of almond nuts to each branch, which were either to hold oil for the lamps, as before observed, or, as others think, to catch the snuff which fell from them; and there were a "knop", which, according to the signification of...