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Exodus 25:28

in Exodus 25

Make the poles of acacia wood and overlay them with gold, so that the table may be carried with them.

BSB

The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾

ASV

And thou shalt make the staves of acacia wood, and overlay them with gold, that the table may be borne with them.

KJV

And thou shalt make the staves of shittim wood, and overlay them with gold, that the table may be borne with them.

This verse in Exodus 25

Commentary

2 notes on this verse

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 Puritans and the Awakening1 voice

And thou shall make the staves of shittim wood, and overlay them with gold,....

The words behind it

12 Hebrew words

Every 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.

  • וְעָשִׂ֤יתָand you will make

    veasitaH6213 →2628 times

  • אֶת־<obj.>

    ʾet-H853 →10935 times

  • הַבַּדִּים֙the poles

    habadimH905 →200 times

  • עֲצֵ֣יwood<s> of

    ʾatzeiH6086 →328 times

  • שִׁטִּ֔יםacacia

    shitimH7848 →28 times

  • וְצִפִּיתָ֥and you will overlay

    vetzipitaH6823 →47 times

  • אֹתָ֖ם<obj.> them

    ʾotamH853 →10935 times

  • זָהָ֑בgold

    zahavH2091 →389 times

  • וְנִשָּׂא־and it will be carried

    venisa'-H5375 →656 times

  • בָ֖םby <the> them

    vam

  • אֶת־<obj.>

    ʾet-H853 →10935 times

  • הַשֻּׁלְחָֽן׃the table

    hashulchanH7979 →71 times

A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.

The walk

8 stops

Each 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

    Acts 9:15

    “Go!” said the Lord. “This man is My chosen instrument to carry My name before the Gentiles and their kings, and before the people of Israel.

    it leads to

    • Galatians 1:15–16

      But when God, who set me apart from my mother’s womb and called me by His grace, was pleased

    • Ephesians 3:7–8

      I became a servant of this gospel by the gift of God’s grace, given me through the working of His power.

    • Romans 11:13

      I am speaking to you Gentiles. Inasmuch as I am the apostle to the Gentiles, I magnify my ministry

    • 2 Timothy 4:16–17

      At my first defense, no one stood with me, but everyone deserted me. May it not be charged against them.

    • Acts 26:17–20

      I will rescue you from your own people and from the Gentiles. I am sending you to them

  • Through

    Numbers 10:17

    Then the tabernacle was taken down, and the Gershonites and the Merarites set out, transporting it.

    it leads to

    • Numbers 7:6–8

      So Moses took the carts and oxen and gave them to the Levites.

    • Numbers 1:51

      Whenever the tabernacle is to move, the Levites are to take it down, and whenever it is to be pitched, the Levites are to set it up. Any outsider who goes near it must…

  • Through

    Exodus 25:27

    The rings are to be close to the rim, to serve as holders for the poles used to carry the table.

    it leads to

    • Exodus 25:14

      Insert the poles into the rings on the sides of the ark, in order to carry it.

Where this verse is studied

About Exodus

The Israelites Leaving Egypt, David Roberts, 1829. Public domain.
The Israelites Leaving Egypt, David Roberts, 1829. Public domain.

This page draws on 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.