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From the Blue Letter Bible
Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Exd 25:23 — 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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a table
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Exd 37:10-16; Exd 40:22,23; Lev 24:6; Num 3:31; 1Ki 7:48; 1Ch 28:16; 2Ch 4:8,19; Eze 40:41,42; Hbr 9:2 |
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shittim wood
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"Shittim wood is probably the acacia Nilotica. St. Jerome says, that the shittim wood grows in the deserts of Arabia, and is like white thorn, as to its colour and leaves; but the tree is so large as to furnish very long planks. The wood is hard, tough, and extremely beautiful. It is thought he means the black acacia, because that is the most common tree in the deserts of Arabia. It is of the size of a large mulberry tree. The spreading branches and larger limbs are armed with thorns, which grow three together. The bark is rough; and the leaves are oblong, standing opposite each other. The flowers, though sometimes white, are generally of a bright yellow; and the fruit, which resembles a bean, is contained in pods like those of the lupin. ""The acacia,"" says Dr. Shaw, ""being by much the largest and most common tree in the deserts,"" (Arabia Petrĉa,) we have some reason to conjecture that the shittim wood was the wood of the acacia, especially as its flowers are of an excellent smell; for the shittah tree is, in " |
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Exd 37:10 |
And he made the table [of] shittim wood: two cubits [was] the length thereof, and a cubit the breadth thereof, and a cubit and a half the height thereof: |
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Exd 37:11 |
And he overlaid it with pure gold, and made thereunto a crown of gold round about. |
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Exd 37:12 |
Also he made thereunto a border of an handbreadth round about; and made a crown of gold for the border thereof round about. |
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Exd 37:13 |
And he cast for it four rings of gold, and put the rings upon the four corners that [were] in the four feet thereof. |
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Exd 37:14 |
Over against the border were the rings, the places for the staves to bear the table. |
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Exd 37:15 |
And he made the staves [of] shittim wood, and overlaid them with gold, to bear the table. |
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Exd 37:16 |
And he made the vessels which [were] upon the table, his dishes, and his spoons, and his bowls, and his covers to cover withal, [of] pure gold. |
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Exd 40:22 |
And he put the table in the tent of the congregation, upon the side of the tabernacle northward, without the vail. |
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Exd 40:23 |
And he set the bread in order upon it before the LORD; as the LORD had commanded Moses. |
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Lev 24:6 |
And thou shalt set them in two rows, six on a row, upon the pure table before the LORD. |
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Num 3:31 |
And their charge [shall be] the ark, and the table, and the candlestick, and the altars, and the vessels of the sanctuary wherewith they minister, and the hanging, and all the service thereof. |
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1Ki 7:48 |
And Solomon made all the vessels that [pertained] unto the house of the LORD: the altar of gold, and the table of gold, whereupon the shewbread [was], |
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1Ch 28:16 |
And by weight [he gave] gold for the tables of shewbread, for every table; and [likewise] silver for the tables of silver: |
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2Ch 4:8 |
He made also ten tables, and placed [them] in the temple, five on the right side, and five on the left. And he made an hundred basons of gold. |
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2Ch 4:19 |
And Solomon made all the vessels that [were for] the house of God, the golden altar also, and the tables whereon the shewbread [was set]; |
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Eze 40:41 |
Four tables [were] on this side, and four tables on that side, by the side of the gate; eight tables, whereupon they slew [their sacrifices]. |
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Eze 40:42 |
And the four tables [were] of hewn stone for the burnt offering, of a cubit and an half long, and a cubit and an half broad, and one cubit high: whereupon also they laid the instruments wherewith they slew the burnt offering and the sacrifice. |
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Hbr 9:2 |
For there was a tabernacle made; the first, wherein [was] the candlestick, and the table, and the shewbread; which is called the sanctuary. |
Cite This Page: (explanation of citations)
Scott, Thomas. "Exodus 25:23," The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge. Blue Letter Bible. 1836. 9 Jul 2004. .
<http://www.blueletterbible.org/tsk_b/Exd/25/23.html>.
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