Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Exodus 26:19
And thou shalt make forty sockets of silver under the twenty boards; two sockets under one board for his two tenons, and two sockets under another board for his two tenons.
19. sockets ] bases (Eze 41:22 RVm.), or pedestals (cf. Job 38:6 ‘foundations’; Son 5:15 supporting pillars), i.e. solid blocks of silver acc. to Exo 38:27 weighing a talent (96 lbs.) each resting on the ground, and, naturally, with ‘sockets’ in them to receive the ‘tenons.’ A talent of silver, of the sacred standard, weighed probably DB. iii. 422 b , 419 b ) about 96 lbs. av.: so that, as a cubit ft. of silver weighs 655 lbs., the talent would amount to about 250 cubic inches, i.e. it might form a block about 7 in. square and 5 in. deep: two such blocks were to stand under each of the frames. Kennedy, however, discarding Exo 38:27 as part of a late addition to P (see on Exo 38:24-31), pictures each base as a square plinth, cubit on the side and a cubit high, the whole forming thus a continuous wall under the frames; the weight of each base in this case would be about 1240 lbs.
Fuente: The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges
Forty sockets, or bases, or pedestals, or feet, upon which the boards stood, and to which they were fastened.
Fuente: English Annotations on the Holy Bible by Matthew Poole
And thou shall make forty sockets of silver under the twenty boards,…. Or bases s, and which were properly the foundation of the tabernacle, on which it was settled and established; these sockets were the mortises for the two tenons of each board or plank to be placed in, and were as broad as the plank, and, joining each other, made one entire basis for the whole structure; each socket contained a talent of silver, and was made of the silver given at the numbering of the people, Ex 38:25, and a talent of silver, according to Bishop Cumberland, amounted to three hundred and fifty three pounds, eleven shillings and some odd pence of our money: by which may be judged the whole value of this silver foundation, which, with the four sockets of the vail, consisted of one hundred of them, which answer to the one hundred talents of silver collected at the above offering:
two sockets under one board for his two tenons, and two sockets under another board for his two tenons; and so in all the twenty boards, which took up the whole forty on the south side.
s “bases”, V. L. Pagninus, Montanus, Tigurine version, Piscator, Drusius.
Fuente: John Gill’s Exposition of the Entire Bible
(19) Forty sockets.Each socket was to receive one of the tenons. As there were twenty boards (Exo. 26:18), and two tenons to each board (Exo. 26:17), the sockets had to be forty.
Fuente: Ellicott’s Commentary for English Readers (Old and New Testaments)
19. Forty sockets Or bases; since two of these were to be placed under each board to receive the two tenons. Comp . Exo 26:17. They were evidently of the nature of morticed blocks of silver, which formed a continuous foundation for the board structure, and would serve to separate and keep the lower ends of the boards from the ground.
Fuente: Whedon’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments
sockets of silver
Silver symbolizes redemption. (See Scofield “Exo 25:1”).
(See Scofield “Exo 38:27”). All the tabernacle rests upon silver except the hangings of the gate, the way of access. See Scofield “Exo 27:17”.
Fuente: Scofield Reference Bible Notes
forty sockets of silver: Exo 26:25, Exo 26:37, Exo 27:10, Exo 27:12-18, Exo 36:24-26, Exo 38:27, Exo 38:30, Exo 38:31, Exo 40:18, Num 3:36, Num 4:31, Num 4:32, Son 5:15
Reciprocal: Exo 26:17 – tenons Exo 26:21 – two sockets under one board