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From the Blue Letter Bible
Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
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pillars of shittim
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Exd 26:37; Exd 36:38; Est 1:6 |
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their hooks shall be of gold
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The Hebrew waveyhem, which we translate their hooks, is rendered by the LXX. [kephalides] and by the Vulgate, capiata, capitals. Hence Calmet contends, 1. That if Moses does not mean the capitals of the pillars by this word, he mentions them nowhere else; and it would seem strange, that while he describes them with so much exactness, that he should not mention the capitals; or that pillars every way so correctly formed, should have been destitute of this necessary ornament. 2. As Moses was commanded to make the wavim of the pillars, and their fillets, of silver, (Exd 27:10, 11,) and the wavim of the pillars of the vail of gold, (Exd 36:36,) and that 1,775 shekels were employed in making them, overlaying their chapiters, rasheyhem, their heads, and filleting them, (Exd 38:28,) it is more reasonable to suppose that all this is spoken of the capitals of pillars, than of any kind of hooks, especially as hooks are mentioned under the word taches or clasps. But as the root wavah seems to signify to connect, (for [w |
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Exd 26:37 |
And thou shalt make for the hanging five pillars [of] shittim [wood], and overlay them with gold, [and] their hooks [shall be of] gold: and thou shalt cast five sockets of brass for them. |
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Exd 36:38 |
And the five pillars of it with their hooks: and he overlaid their chapiters and their fillets with gold: but their five sockets [were of] brass. |
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Est 1:6 |
[Where were] white, green, and blue, [hangings], fastened with cords of fine linen and purple to silver rings and pillars of marble: the beds [were of] gold and silver, upon a pavement of red, and blue, and white, and black, marble. |
their hooks shall be of gold
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Exd 27:10 |
And the twenty pillars thereof and their twenty sockets [shall be of] brass; the hooks of the pillars and their fillets [shall be of] silver. |
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Exd 27:11 |
And likewise for the north side in length [there shall be] hangings of an hundred [cubits] long, and his twenty pillars and their twenty sockets [of] brass; the hooks of the pillars and their fillets [of] silver. |
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Exd 36:36 |
And he made thereunto four pillars [of] shittim [wood], and overlaid them with gold: their hooks [were of] gold; and he cast for them four sockets of silver. |
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Exd 38:28 |
And of the thousand seven hundred seventy and five shekels he made hooks for the pillars, and overlaid their chapiters, and filleted them. |
Cite This Page: (explanation of citations)
Scott, Thomas. "Exodus 26:32," The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge. Blue Letter Bible. 1836. 9 Jul 2004. .
<http://www.blueletterbible.org/tsk_b/Exd/26/32.html>.
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