He put the lampstand in the tent of meeting, opposite the table on the south side of the tabernacle,
Don't wait to be settled before you worship God. A tabernacle in the wilderness is more needful than a palace later; our carcases may fall here, and we may be fixed in another world before we come to fix in this. Moses obeyed every particular in the order God appointed, repeating his obedience seven times over: not adding, not diminishing, not varying in the least punctilio.
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Commenting on Exodus 40:16-33
And he put the golden altar,.... The altar of incense; so called because it was overlaid with gold, and to distinguish it from the altar of burnt offering, which was covered with brass: to this altar there is an allusion in Rev 8:3.
The table stood on the north side of the front room, the candlestick opposite on the south, and the golden altar centered before the curtain of the holy place. The shew-bread was arranged in two rows upon the table according to its measure, and everything was set in place according to the pattern God had shown.
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Commenting on Exodus 40:22-28