And thou shalt make the seven lamps thereof: and they shall light the lamps thereof, that they may give light over against it.
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Gill's Exposition
And look that thou make them,.... Or see that they are made by workmen employed:
after their pattern, which was showed thee in the mount; from whence it appears, that as Moses was showed the model…
Exo 25:31 A candlestick of pure gold - (Compare Exo 37:17-24.) A lampstand rather than a candlestick. Its purpose was to support seven oil-lamps. Its height appears to have been about three feet, and…
I. The next thing ordered to be made for the furnishing of God's palace was a rich stately candlestick, all of pure gold, not hollow, but solid. The particular directions here given concerning it…
Cambridge Bible
the lamps probably of the type called Phoenician, of which numerous specimens, made in terra cotta, have been found at Gezer, and other places excavated recently in Palestine: they are in shape like a…
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