Hollow with boards shalt thou make it: as it was shewed thee in the mount, so shall they make it.
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Gill's Exposition
Hollow with boards shalt thou make it,.... The frame of it being made of boards of shittim wood, there was nothing within side but the grate, which was put within the square, down into the middle of…
(Compare Exo 38:1-7.) The great altar which stood in the court immediately in front of the tabernacle was commonly called the altar of burnt-offering, because on it were burnt the whole…
Adam Clarke
Hollow with boards - It seems to have been a kind of frame-work, and to have had nothing solid in the inside, and only covered with the grating at the top. This rendered it more light and portable.
As God intended in the tabernacle to manifest his presence among his people, so there they were to pay their devotions to him, not in the tabernacle itself (into that only the priests entered as God's…
Cambridge Bible
Hollow with planks it was a hollow framework or casing.
in the mount see Exo 25:9.
It is difficult to reconcile satisfactorily this plated -altar" (v.1) of acacia wood, borne upon the shoulders of…
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