Exodus 25:23
in Exodus 25You are also to make a table of acacia wood two cubits long, a cubit wide, and a cubit and a half high.
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ASV
And thou shalt make a table of acacia wood: two cubits shall be the length thereof, and a cubit the breadth thereof, and a cubit and a half the height thereof.
KJV
Thou shalt also make a table of shittim wood: two cubits shall be the length thereof, and a cubit the breadth thereof, and a cubit and a half the height thereof.
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This verse in Exodus 25
Commentary
6 notes on this verseA commentator
Albert Barnes1798–1870
Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869)
(Compare Exo 37:10-16.) The table and the candlestick figured on the Arch of Titus at Rome are those of the Maccabaean times, but made as nearly as possible after the ancient models reproduced under the direction of Solomon and Zerubbabel. The details and size of the figure, and the description of Josephus, appear to agree very nearly with the directions here given to Moses, and to illustrate them in several particulars.
This site's exposition
You are also to make a table of acacia wood
on Exodus 25:23-28
The table follows the ark's plan: acacia wood overlaid with gold, a gold molding, rings at the four legs and poles to carry it. Everything in the holy place is made to be carried, and Numbers 4 sets out who carries what.
The record, by era
The Medieval Church1 voice
A dividing wall of cedar planks, twenty cubits high, was built in the temple to separate the inner sanctuary, that is, the Holy of Holies, from the forepart of the temple. The innersanctuary was twenty cubits deep, twenty cubits wide and twenty cubits high. The …
The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice
Thou shalt also make a table of shittim wood,.... As the sanctuary or tabernacle was an house for God to dwell in, he would have the proper furniture of an house, as a table, candlestick, &c.
The Nineteenth Century2 voices
A commentator
Jamieson, Fausset & Brown1802–1910
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)
proposed
table of shittim wood--of the same material and decorations as the ark [see on Ex 25:5], and like it, too, furnished with rings for the poles on which it was carried [Ex 25:26].
quarantine:debris (2026-07-29) — starts-lowercase
Thou shalt also make a table of shittim wood - The same wood, the acacia, of which the arkstaves, etc., were made. On the subject of the ark, table of shew-bread, etc., Dr. Cudworth, in his very learned and excellent treatise on the Lord’s Supper, has the following remarks: - “When God had brought the children of Israel out of Egypt, resolving to manifest himself in a peculiar manner present among them, he thought good to dwell amongst them in a visible and external manner; and therefore, while they were in the wilderness, and sojourned in tents, he would have a tent or tabernacle built to sojourn with them also. This mystery of the tabernacle was fully understood by the learned Nachmanides, who, in few words, but pregnant, expresseth himself to this purpose: ‘The mystery of the tabernacle was this, that it was to be a place for the shechinah, or habitation of Divinity, to be fixed in;’ and this, no doubt, as a special type of God’s future dwelling in Christ’s human nature, which was the True Shechinah: but when the Jews were come into their land, and had there built them houses, God intended to have a fixed dwelling-house also; and therefore his movable tabernacle was to be turned into a standing temple. Now the tabernacle or temple, being thus as a house for God to dwell in visibly, to make up the notion of dwelling or habitation complete there must be all things suitable to a house belonging to it; hence, in the holy place, there must be a table, and a candlestick, because this was the ordinary furniture of a room, as the fore-commended Nachmanides observes. The table must have its dishes, and spoons, and bowls, and covers belonging to it, though they were never used; and always be furnished with bread upon it. The candlestick must have its lamps continually burning. […]
The words behind it
11 Hebrew wordsEvery Hebrew word of this verse in the order it stands, with what it means and the door to its own study. The last column counts the times a word stands in the whole Bible: the rarer the word, the more the places it appears belong together.
| Hebrew | Sound | Meaning | Word study | In the Bible |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| וְעָשִׂ֥יתָ | veasita | and you will make | H6213 → | 2628 times |
| שֻׁלְחָ֖ן | shulchan | a table | H7979 → | 71 times |
| עֲצֵ֣י | ʾatzei | wood<s> of | H6086 → | 328 times |
| שִׁטִּ֑ים | shitim | acacia | H7848 → | 28 times |
| אַמָּתַ֤יִם | ʾamatayim | [will be] two cubits | H520 → | 247 times |
| אָרְכּוֹ֙ | ʾareko | length its | H753 → | 95 times |
| וְאַמָּ֣ה | veamah | and [will be] a cubit | H520 → | 247 times |
| רָחְבּ֔וֹ | rachebo | breadth its | H7341 → | 101 times |
| וְאַמָּ֥ה | veamah | and [will be] a cubit | H520 → | 247 times |
| וָחֵ֖צִי | vachetzi | and a half | H2677 → | 125 times |
| קֹמָתֽוֹ׃ | komato | height its | H6967 → | 45 times |
וְעָשִׂ֥יתָand you will make
veasitaH6213 →2628 times
שֻׁלְחָ֖ןa table
shulchanH7979 →71 times
עֲצֵ֣יwood<s> of
ʾatzeiH6086 →328 times
שִׁטִּ֑יםacacia
shitimH7848 →28 times
אַמָּתַ֤יִם[will be] two cubits
ʾamatayimH520 →247 times
אָרְכּוֹ֙length its
ʾarekoH753 →95 times
וְאַמָּ֣הand [will be] a cubit
veamahH520 →247 times
רָחְבּ֔וֹbreadth its
racheboH7341 →101 times
וְאַמָּ֥הand [will be] a cubit
veamahH520 →247 times
וָחֵ֖צִיand a half
vachetziH2677 →125 times
קֹמָתֽוֹ׃height its
komatoH6967 →45 times
A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.
The walk
8 stopsEach card is a verse this one points to, and under it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it.
Through
2 Chronicles 4:8Additionally, he made ten tables and placed them in the temple, five on the south side and five on the north. He also made a hundred gold bowls.
it leads to
- 1 Kings 7:48
Solomon also made all the furnishings for the house of the LORD: the golden altar; the golden table on which was placed the Bread of the Presence;
Reached by 2 separate paths from here.
- 1 Corinthians 10:21
You cannot drink the cup of the Lord and the cup of demons too; you cannot partake in the table of the Lord and the table of demons too.
- 1 Kings 7:48
Through
1 Kings 7:48Solomon also made all the furnishings for the house of the LORD: the golden altar; the golden table on which was placed the Bread of the Presence;
it leads to
- 2 Chronicles 4:8
Additionally, he made ten tables and placed them in the temple, five on the south side and five on the north. He also made a hundred gold bowls.
Reached by 2 separate paths from here.
- Exodus 37:10–16
He also made the table of acacia wood two cubits long, a cubit wide, and a cubit and a half high.
Reached by 2 separate paths from here.
- Exodus 39:36
the table with all its utensils and the Bread of the Presence;
- 2 Chronicles 4:8
Through
Hebrews 9:2A tabernacle was prepared. In its first room were the lampstand, the table, and the consecrated bread. This was called the Holy Place.
it leads to
- Exodus 40:4
Then bring in the table and set out its arrangement; bring in the lampstand as well, and set up its lamps.
- Leviticus 24:5–8
You are also to take fine flour and bake twelve loaves, using two-tenths of an ephah for each loaf,
- Exodus 26:35
And place the table outside the veil on the north side of the tabernacle, and put the lampstand opposite the table, on the south side.
- Exodus 40:4
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This page draws on Adam Clarke, Commentary on the Bible; Albert Barnes, Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869); Bede, Homilies on the Gospels 25; Jamieson, Fausset & Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763) and Keil and Delitzsch, Biblical Commentary on the Old Testament: The Pentateuch.