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Exodus 26:32

in Exodus 26

Hang it with gold hooks on four posts of acacia wood, overlaid with gold and standing on four silver bases.

BSB

The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾

ASV

and thou shalt hang it upon four pillars of acacia overlaid with gold; their hooks shall be of gold, upon four sockets of silver.

KJV

And thou shalt hang it upon four pillars of shittim wood overlaid with gold: their hooks shall be of gold, upon the four sockets of silver.

This verse in Exodus 26

Commentary

6 notes on this verse

A commentator

Adam Clarke

1762–1832

Commentary on the Bible · Written before 1832.

Their hooks shall be of gold - וויהם vaveyhem, which we translate their hooks, is rendered κεφαλιδες, capitals, by the Septuagint, and capita by the Vulgate. As the word וו vav or vau, plural ווים vavim, occurs only in this book, Exo 26:32, Exo 26:37; Exo 27:10, Exo 27:11, Exo 27:17; Exo 36:36, Exo 36:38; Exo 38:10, Exo 38:11, Exo 38:12, Exo 38:17, Exo 38:19, Exo 38:28; and is used in these places in reference to the same subject, it is very difficult to ascertain its precise meaning.

This site's exposition

Make a veil of blue, purple, and scarlet yarn

on Exodus 26:31-33

The veil carries cherubim like the inner curtain, and its one task is to “separate the Holy Place from the Most Holy Place”. Matthew 27:51 reports this curtain torn from top to bottom at the death of Jesus.

The record, by era

The Church Fathers1 voice

A commentator

Pacian of Barcelona

Commentary (church-history corpus) · Written before 391.

proposed

The tabernacle is a type of the church. So God says to Moses that the bases of the four pillars placed within it should be silver. What does silver mean except the clarity of the divine Word? Scripture says, "The words of the Lord are …

The Medieval Church1 voice

A commentator

Paterius

EXPOSITION OF THE OLD AND NEW TESTAMENT, EXODUS 44 · Written before 606.

proposed

The tabernacle is a type of the church. So God says to Moses that the bases of the four pillars placed within it should be silver. What does silver mean except the clarity of the divine Word? Scripture says, "The words of the Lord are …

The Puritans and the Awakening2 voices

And thou shalt hang it upon four pillars of shittim wood, overlaid with gold,....

A commentator

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

proposed

We have not boldness to enter into the holiest, in all acts of devotion, by the blood of Jesus, yet such as obliges us to a holy reverence and a humble sense of our distance. Another veil was for the outer door of the tabernacle,

The words behind it

14 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.

  • וְנָתַתָּ֣הand you will put

    venatatahH5414 →2011 times

  • אֹתָ֗הּ<obj.> it

    ʾotahH853 →10935 times

  • עַל־on

    ʾal-H5921 →5755 times

  • אַרְבָּעָה֙four

    ʾarbaahH702 →318 times

  • עַמּוּדֵ֣יpillars of

    ʾamudeiH5982 →111 times

  • שִׁטִּ֔יםacacia

    shitimH7848 →28 times

  • מְצֻפִּ֣יםoverlaid

    metzupimH6823 →47 times

  • זָהָ֔בgold

    zahavH2091 →389 times

  • וָוֵיהֶ֖םhooks their

    vaveihemH2053 →13 times

  • זָהָ֑ב[will be] gold

    zahavH2091 →389 times

  • עַל־on

    ʾal-H5921 →5755 times

  • אַרְבָּעָ֖הfour

    ʾarbaahH702 →318 times

  • אַדְנֵי־bases of

    ʾadnei-H134 →57 times

  • כָֽסֶף׃silver

    khasefH3701 →403 times

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

The walk

7 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

    Esther 1:6

    Hangings of white and blue linen were fastened with cords of fine white and purple material to silver rings on the marble pillars. Gold and silver couches were arranged on a mosaic pavement of…

    it leads to

    • Amos 6:4

      You lie on beds inlaid with ivory, and lounge upon your couches. You dine on lambs from the flock and calves from the stall.

    • Ezekiel 23:41

      You sat on a couch of luxury with a table spread before it, on which you had set My incense and My oil,

    • Esther 7:8

      Just as the king returned from the palace garden to the banquet hall, Haman was falling on the couch where Esther was reclining. The king exclaimed, “Would he actually assault the queen while I…

    • Amos 2:8

      They lie down beside every altar on garments taken in pledge. And in the house of their God, they drink wine obtained through fines.

    • Exodus 26:1

      “You are to construct the tabernacle itself with ten curtains of finely spun linen, each with blue, purple, and scarlet yarn, and cherubim skillfully worked into them.

  • Through

    Exodus 26:37

    Make five posts of acacia wood for the curtain, overlay them with gold hooks, and cast five bronze bases for them.

    it leads to

    • Exodus 36:38

      together with five posts and their hooks. He overlaid the tops of the posts and their bands with gold, and their five bases were bronze.

  • Through

    Exodus 36:38

    together with five posts and their hooks. He overlaid the tops of the posts and their bands with gold, and their five bases were bronze.

    it leads to

    • Exodus 27:10

      with twenty posts and twenty bronze bases, and silver hooks and bands on the posts.

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 Adam Clarke, Commentary on the Bible; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763); Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible; Pacian of Barcelona, Commentary (church-history corpus); Paterius, EXPOSITION OF THE OLD AND NEW TESTAMENT, EXODUS 44 and Sir Robert Anderson, Types in Hebrews.