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<a href="../exodus/37-22.htm" title="Exodus 37:22">►</a></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center" class="maintable2"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><div id="topverse">And a knop under two branches of the same, and a knop under two branches of the same, and a knop under two branches of the same, according to the six branches going out of it.</div><div id="jump">Jump to: <a href="/commentaries/barnes/exodus/37.htm" title="Barnes' Notes">Barnes</a> • <a href="/commentaries/benson/exodus/37.htm" title="Benson Commentary">Benson</a> • <a href="/commentaries/illustrator/exodus/37.htm" title="Biblical Illustrator">BI</a> • <a href="/commentaries/calvin/exodus/37.htm" title="Calvin's Commentaries">Calvin</a> • <a href="/commentaries/cambridge/exodus/37.htm" title="Cambridge Bible">Cambridge</a> • <a href="/commentaries/clarke/exodus/37.htm" title="Clarke's Commentary">Clarke</a> • <a href="/commentaries/darby/exodus/37.htm" title="Darby's Bible 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The incense represented the prayers of the saints. The sacrifice of the alter represented the Lamb of God that taketh away the sins of the world. The golden pot with manna, or bread from heaven, the flesh of Jesus Christ, which he gave for the life of the world. The candlestick, with its lights, the teaching and enlightening of the Holy Spirit. The shew-bread represented that provision for those who hunger and thirst after righteousness, which the gospel, the ordinances and the sacraments of the house of prayer, abundantly bestow. The exactness of the workmen to their rule, should be followed by us; seeking for the influences of the Holy Spirit, that we may rejoice in and glorify God while in this world, and at length be with him for ever.<a name="bar" id="bar"></a><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/barnes/exodus/36.htm">Barnes' Notes on the Bible</a></div>See the notes to <a href="http://biblehub.com/exodus/26.htm">Exodus 26</a>. <p>See the notes to <a href="http://biblehub.com/exodus/25.htm">Exodus 25</a>. <p>For <a href="http://biblehub.com/exodus/38-1.htm">Exodus 38:1-7</a> and <a href="http://biblehub.com/exodus/38-9.htm">Exodus 38:9-20</a> see the notes to <a href="http://biblehub.com/exodus/27.htm">Exodus 27</a>. <a name="jfb" id="jfb"></a><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/jfb/exodus/37.htm">Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary</a></div>17-22. he made the candlestick of pure gold—Practical readers will be apt to say, "Why do such works with the hammer, when they could have been cast so much easier—a process they were well acquainted with?" The only answer that can be given is, that it was done according to order. We have no doubt but there were reasons for so distinctive an order, something significant, which has not been revealed to us [Napier]. The whole of that sacred building was arranged with a view to inculcate through every part of its apparatus the great fundamental principles of revelation. Every object was symbolical of important truth—every piece of furniture was made the hieroglyphic of a doctrine or a duty—on the floor and along the sides of that movable edifice was exhibited, by emblematic signs addressed to the eye, the whole remedial scheme of the gospel. How far this spiritual instruction was received by every successive generation of the Israelites, it may not be easy to determine. But the tabernacle, like the law of which it was a part, was a schoolmaster to Christ [Ga 3:24, 25]. Just as the walls of schools are seen studded with pictorial figures, by which the children, in a manner level to their capacities and suited to arrest their volatile minds, are kept in constant and familiar remembrance of the lessons of piety and virtue, so the tabernacle was intended by its furniture and all its arrangements to serve as a "shadow of good things to come" [Heb 10:1]. In this view, the minute description given in this chapter respecting the ark and mercy seat, the table of showbread, the candlestick, the altar of incense, and the holy oil, were of the greatest utility and importance; and though there are a few things that are merely ornamental appendages, such as the knops and the flowers, yet, in introducing these into the tabernacle, God displayed the same wisdom and goodness as He has done by introducing real flowers into the kingdom of nature to engage and gratify the eye of man. <div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/poole/exodus/37.htm">Matthew Poole's Commentary</a></div> No text from Poole on this verse. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a name="gil" id="gil"></a><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/gill/exodus/37.htm">Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible</a></div>And Bezaleel made the ark of shittim wood,.... Jarchi says, because he gave his mind to this work more than the rest of the wise men, it is called by his name. It is a notion of some Jewish writers that the ark was made by Bezaleel, without the help of others; but there is no sufficient reason to be given for it; for other things are equally ascribed to him in this and the following chapter, as the mercy seat with the cherubim, the shewbread table, the candlestick of pure gold, the two altars, the laver of brass, with other things, which are only said to be made by him, because they were made by his direction, and he having the oversight of them while making; wherefore Aben Ezra observes, that this is particularly said for the glory of the ark. Of the ark, and all other things mentioned in this chapter; see Gill on <a href="/exodus/25-1.htm">Exodus 25:1</a> &c. to end of chapter; see Gill on <a href="/exodus/30-1.htm">Exodus 30:1</a> &c. to end of chapter. <a name="gsb" id="gsb"></a><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/gsb/exodus/37.htm">Geneva Study Bible</a></div><span class="cverse2">And a knop under two branches of the same, and a knop under two branches of the same, and a knop under two branches of the same, according to the six branches going out of it.</span></div></div><div id="centbox"><div class="padcent"><div class="comtype">EXEGETICAL (ORIGINAL LANGUAGES)</div>Exodus 37:21<a name="kad" id="kad"></a><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/kad/exodus/37.htm">Keil and Delitzsch Biblical Commentary on the Old Testament</a></div>Preparation of the vessels of the dwelling: viz., the ark of the covenant (<a href="http://biblehub.com/exodus/37-1.htm">Exodus 37:1-9</a>, as in <a href="http://biblehub.com/exodus/25-10.htm">Exodus 25:10-22</a>); the table of shew-bread and its vessels (<a href="http://biblehub.com/exodus/37-10.htm">Exodus 37:10-16</a>, as in <a href="http://biblehub.com/exodus/25-23.htm">Exodus 25:23-30</a>); the candlestick (<a href="http://biblehub.com/exodus/37-17.htm">Exodus 37:17-24</a>, as in <a href="http://biblehub.com/exodus/25-31.htm">Exodus 25:31-40</a>); the altar of incense (<a href="http://biblehub.com/exodus/37-25.htm">Exodus 37:25-28</a>, as in <a href="http://biblehub.com/exodus/30-1.htm">Exodus 30:1-10</a>); the anointing oil and incense (<a href="/exodus/37-29.htm">Exodus 37:29</a>), directions for the preparation of which are given in <a href="http://biblehub.com/exodus/30-22.htm">Exodus 30:22-38</a>; the altar of burnt-offering (<a href="http://biblehub.com/exodus/38-1.htm">Exodus 38:1-7</a>, as in <a href="http://biblehub.com/exodus/27-1.htm">Exodus 27:1-8</a>); the laver (<a href="http://biblehub.com/exodus/37-8.htm">Exodus 37:8</a>, as in <a href="http://biblehub.com/exodus/30-17.htm">Exodus 30:17-21</a>); and the court (<a href="http://biblehub.com/exodus/37-9.htm">Exodus 37:9-20</a>, as in <a href="http://biblehub.com/exodus/27-9.htm">Exodus 27:9-19</a>). The order corresponds on the whole to the list of the separate articles in <a href="http://biblehub.com/exodus/35-11.htm">Exodus 35:11-19</a>, and to the construction of the entire sanctuary; but the holy chest (the ark), as being the most holy thing of all, is distinguished above all the rest, by being expressly mentioned as the work of Bezaleel, the chief architect of the whole. <div class="vheading2">Links</div><a href="/interlinear/exodus/37-21.htm">Exodus 37:21 Interlinear</a><br /><a href="/texts/exodus/37-21.htm">Exodus 37:21 Parallel Texts</a><br /><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/niv/exodus/37-21.htm">Exodus 37:21 NIV</a><br /><a href="/nlt/exodus/37-21.htm">Exodus 37:21 NLT</a><br /><a href="/esv/exodus/37-21.htm">Exodus 37:21 ESV</a><br /><a href="/nasb/exodus/37-21.htm">Exodus 37:21 NASB</a><br /><a href="/kjv/exodus/37-21.htm">Exodus 37:21 KJV</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="http://bibleapps.com/exodus/37-21.htm">Exodus 37:21 Bible Apps</a><br /><a href="/exodus/37-21.htm">Exodus 37:21 Parallel</a><br /><a href="http://bibliaparalela.com/exodus/37-21.htm">Exodus 37:21 Biblia Paralela</a><br /><a href="http://holybible.com.cn/exodus/37-21.htm">Exodus 37:21 Chinese Bible</a><br /><a href="http://saintebible.com/exodus/37-21.htm">Exodus 37:21 French Bible</a><br /><a href="http://bibeltext.com/exodus/37-21.htm">Exodus 37:21 German Bible</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/">Bible Hub</a><br /></div></div></td></tr></table></div><div id="mdd"><div align="center"><div class="bot2"><table align="center" width="100%"><tr><td align="center"><div align="center"> <script id="3d27ed63fc4348d5b062c4527ae09445"> (new Image()).src = 'https://capi.connatix.com/tr/si?token=51ce25d5-1a8c-424a-8695-4bd48c750f35&cid=3a9f82d0-4344-4f8d-ac0c-e1a0eb43a405'; </script> <script id="b817b7107f1d4a7997da1b3c33457e03"> (new Image()).src = 'https://capi.connatix.com/tr/si?token=cb0edd8b-b416-47eb-8c6d-3cc96561f7e8&cid=3a9f82d0-4344-4f8d-ac0c-e1a0eb43a405'; </script><br /><br />  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-2'> </div><br /><br />  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-0' style='max-width: 300px;'> </div><br /><br />  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-3'> </div><br /><br />  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-1' style='max-width: 300px;'> </div><br /><br />  <div align="center" id='div-gpt-ad-1531425649696-0'> </div><br /><br /> <ins class="adsbygoogle" style="display:inline-block;width:200px;height:200px" data-ad-client="ca-pub-3753401421161123" data-ad-slot="3592799687"></ins> <script> (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); </script><br /><br /> </div> <div id="left"><a href="../exodus/37-20.htm" onmouseover='lft.src="/leftgif.png"' onmouseout='lft.src="/left.png"' title="Exodus 37:20"><img src="/left.png" name="lft" border="0" alt="Exodus 37:20" /></a></div><div id="right"><a href="../exodus/37-22.htm" onmouseover='rght.src="/rightgif.png"' onmouseout='rght.src="/right.png"' title="Exodus 37:22"><img src="/right.png" name="rght" border="0" alt="Exodus 37:22" /></a></div><div id="botleft"><a href="#" onmouseover='botleft.src="/botleftgif.png"' onmouseout='botleft.src="/botleft.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botleft.png" name="botleft" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="botright"><a href="#" onmouseover='botright.src="/botrightgif.png"' onmouseout='botright.src="/botright.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botright.png" name="botright" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div> <div id="bot"><iframe width="100%" height="1500" scrolling="no" src="/botmenubhnew2.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></div></td></tr></table></div></body></html>