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Tabernacle
Moses was commanded to make after a divine pattern - Ex 25:9; 26:30; Heb 8:5
Made of the free-will offerings of the people - Ex 25:1-8; 35:4,5,21-29
Divine wisdom given to Bezaleel to make - Ex 31:2-7; 35:30-35; 36:1
CALLED THE
- Tabernacle of the Lord
- Jos 22:19; 1Ki 2:28; 1Ch 16:39- Tabernacle of testimony or witness
- Ex 38:21; Nu 1:50; 17:7,8; 2Ch 24:6; Ac 7:44- Tabernacle of the congregation
- Ex 27:21; 33:7; 40:26- Tabernacle of Shiloh
- Ps 78:60- Tabernacle of Joseph
- Ps 78:67- Temple of the Lord
- 1Sa 1:9; 3:3- House of the Lord
- Jos 6:24; 1Sa 1:7,24Was a moveable tent suited to the unsettled condition of Israel - 2Sa 7:6,7
Designed for manifestation of God's presence and for his worship - Ex 25:8; 29:42,43
THE BOARDS OF
- Made of shittim wood
- Ex 26:15; 36:20- Ten cubits high by one and a half broad
- Ex 26:16; 36:21- Had each two tenons fitted into sockets of silver
- Ex 26:17,19; 36:22-24- Twenty on south side
- Ex 26:18; 36:23- Twenty on north side
- Ex 26:20; 36:25- Six, and two corner boards for west side
- Ex 26:22-25; 36:27-30- Supported by bars of shittim wood resting in rings of gold
- Ex 26:26-29; 36:31-33- With the bars, covered with gold
- Ex 26:26-29; 36:34The door of, a curtain of blue and purple suspended by gold rings from five pillars of shittim wood - Ex 26:36,37; 36:37,38
COVERINGS OF
- The first or inner, ten curtains of blue, purple, &c joined
with loops and golden taches - Ex 26:1-6; 36:8-13- The second, eleven curtains of goats' hair
- Ex 26:7-13; 36:14-18- The third of rams' skins dyed red
- Ex 26:14; 36:19- The fourth or outward of badgers' skins
- Ex 26:14; 36:19Divided by a vail of blue, purple, suspended from four pillars of shittim - Ex 26:31-33; 36:35,36; 40:21
DIVIDED INTO
- The holy place
- Ex 26:33; Heb 9:2-6- The most holy place
- Ex 26:34; Heb 9:3,7Had a court round about - Ex 40:8
The table of show-bread, the golden candlestick, and the altar of incense were place in the holy place - Ex 26:35; 40:22,24,26; Heb 9:2
The ark and mercy-seat put in the most holy place - Ex 26:33,34; 40:20,21; Heb 9:4
COURT OF
- One hundred cubits long and fifty cubits wide
- Ex 27:18- Surrounded by curtains of fine line suspended from pillars
in sockets of brass - Ex 27:9-15; 38:9-16- The gate of, a hanging of blue, purple, &c twenty cubits
wide, suspended from four pillars, &c - Ex 27:16; 38:18- Contained the brazen altar and laver of brass
- Ex 40:29,30- All the pillars of, filleted with silver, &c
- Ex 27:17; 38:17- All the vessels of, made of brass
- Ex 27:19First reared, on the first day of the second year after the exodus - Ex 40:2,17
WAS SET UP
- By Moses at Mount Sinai
- Ex 40:18,19; Nu 10:11,12- At Gilgal
- Jos 5:10,11- In Shiloh
- Jos 18:1; 19:51- In Nob
- 1Sa 21:1-6- Finally at Gibeon
- 1Ch 16:39; 21:29Anointed and consecrated with oil - Ex 40:9; Le 8:10; Nu 7:1
Sprinkled and purified with blood - Heb 9:21
Sanctified by the glory of the Lord - Ex 29:43; 40:34; Nu 9:15
The Lord appeared in, over the mercy-seat - Ex 25:22; Le 16:2; Nu 7:89
The cloud of glory rested on, by night and day during its abode in the wilderness - Ex 40:38; Nu 9:15,16
The journeys of Israel regulated by the cloud on - Ex 40:36,37
THE PRIESTS
- Alone could enter
- Nu 18:3,5- Performed all services in
- Nu 3:10; 18:1,2; Heb 9:6- Were the ministers of
- Heb 8:2THE LEVITES
- Appointed over, and had charge of
- Nu 1:50; 8:24; 18:2-4- Did the inferior service of
- Nu 3:6-8- Took down, and put up
- Nu 1:51- Carried
- Nu 4:15,25,31- Pitched their tents around
- Nu 1:53; 3:23,29,35Free-will offerings made at the first rearing of - Nu 7:1-9
Free-will offerings made at the dedication of the altar of - Nu 7:10-87
All offerings to be made at - Le 17:4; De 12:5,6,11,13,14
Punishment for defiling - Le 15:31; Nu 19:13
A permanent house substituted for, when the kingdom was established - 2Sa 7:5-13
ILLUSTRATIVE
- Of Christ
- Isa 4:6; Joh 1:14; Heb 9:8,9,11- Of the Church
- Ps 15:1; Isa 16:5; 54:2; Heb 8:2; Re 21:2,3- Of the body
- 2Co 5:1; 2Pe 1:13- (The holy of holies,) of heaven
- Heb 6:19,20; 9:12,24; 10:19- (The vail,) of Christ's body
- Heb 10:20- (The vail,) of the obscurity of the Mosaic age
- Heb 9:8,10; Ro 16:25,26; Re 11:19 Next Topic (Temple, The First)