He shall order the lamps upon the pure candlestick before the LORD continually.
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Gill's Exposition
He shall order the lamps on the pure candlestick,.... So called, as Jarchi suggests, for these two reasons, partly because it was made of pure gold, and partly because it was to be kept pure and…
The oil for the lamps of the tabernacle and the meal for the showbread were to be offerings from the Congregation, like the meal for the Pentecostal loaves, Lev 23:17. It appears that the…
Care is here taken, and orders are given, for the decent furnishing of the candlestick and table in God's house.
I. The lamps must always be kept burning. The law for this we had before, Exo 27:20,…
Cambridge Bible
The v.-has somewhat the air of a later addition to make the directions quite plain" (Oxf. Hex.). For -continually" the LXX. have -until the morning."
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