Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Exodus 28:22
And thou shalt make upon the breastplate chains at the ends [of] wreathen work [of] pure gold.
22. The ‘chains like cords’ are those mentioned in v. 14, so that the verse is really superfluous.
Fuente: The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges
22 25. Two golden chains of wreathen work to be made, and attached at one end, by rings of gold, to the two upper corners of the pouch, and at the other, to the two rosettes ( v. 13 f.), in the two shoulder-straps, so that the pouch might hang down from them.
Fuente: The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges
22 28. How the pouch is to be kept in position on the front of the ephod.
Fuente: The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges
Some think these are the same with those mentioned Exo 28:14. But it seems improbable and without example that God should in this short description, and that within a few verses, give a new and second command concerning the same thing. It may rather seem that these are other chains fastened to the breastplate, as it follows, whereas those chains, Exo 28:14, seem to have been fastened to the ephod, to those ouches made in it for that purpose, Exo 28:13. And whereas these chains also are fastened in the said ouches, Exo 28:25, two several chains may well enough be fastened in divers parts of each of the ouches; and there seems to be this difference between the chains, those chains mentioned Exo 28:14 are said to be fastened only at one end, even to the ouches of the ephod, whence they might hang down loosely, whereas these are manifestly fastened at both ends, Exo 28:24,25.
Fuente: English Annotations on the Holy Bible by Matthew Poole
And thou shall make upon the breastplate chains at the ends,…. One end of them to be put to the breastplate, and the other end to the ouches on the shoulder pieces of the ephod, by which the breastplate hung from thence: the Targum of Jonathan renders it, chains of a certain determined size, of length and thickness exactly alike; or terminable ones, as it may be rendered, not circular like a locket, or chain of gold worn about the neck, but that had ends to it: some interpret it chains, made like ropes, in the same manner as cables are, twisted together; and such it is certain they were, by what follows:
of wreathen work of pure gold; not of circles and ringlets of gold coupled together, but of golden wires twisted together, as ropes are.
Fuente: John Gill’s Exposition of the Entire Bible
To bind the choshen to the ephod there were to be two close, corded chains of pure gold, which are described here in precisely the same manner as in Exo 28:14; so that Exo 28:22 is to be regarded as a simple repetition of Exo 28:14, not merely because these chains are only mentioned once in the account of the execution of the work (Exo 39:15), but because, according to Exo 28:25, these chains were to be fastened upon the rosettes notice in Exo 28:14, exactly like those described in Exo 28:13. These chains, which are called cords or strings at Exo 28:24, were to be attached to two golden rings at the two (upper) ends of the choshen , and the two ends of the chains were to be put, i.e., bound firmly to the golden settings of the shoulder-pieces of the ephod (Exo 28:13), upon the front of it (see at Exo 26:9 and Exo 25:37).
Fuente: Keil & Delitzsch Commentary on the Old Testament
Verses 22-29:
These verses explain the manner in which the breastplate was to be attached to the ephod. A gold ring was to be affixed to each corner of the breastplate. Two were in the upper corners, and two just behind the lower. A gold chain was passed through each of the two upper rings, then fastened to the settings holding the onyx stones at the shoulders of the ephod. A blue lace or ribbon was passed through each of the rings on the lower corners of the breastplate, then joined to two gold rings affixed to the “curious girdle” or belt of the ephod. These four fastenings attached the breastplate securely and permanently to the ephod.
Aaron bore the names of Israel’s tribes upon his shoulders, signifying that they were a burden. But he also bore their names on the breast-plate, over his heart, signifying that they were also beloved of God.
Fuente: Garner-Howes Baptist Commentary
(22) Chains at the ends.Rather, chains of equal length; or, chains of wreathen work. (See Note on Exo. 28:14.)
Of wreathen work.Heb., after the manner of ropes.
Fuente: Ellicott’s Commentary for English Readers (Old and New Testaments)
22-28. Chains rings This description shows in minute detail the manner in which the breastplate was securely fastened to the ephod . Josephus says that “whereas the rings were too weak of themselves to bear the weight of the stones, they made two other rings of a larger size, at the edge of that part of the breastplate which reached to the neck, and inserted into the very texture of the breastplate, to receive chains finely wrought, which connected them to the tops of the shoulders with golden bands, whose extremity turned backward and went into the ring on the prominent back part of the ephod; and this was for the security of the breastplate, that it might not fall out of its place . ”
Fuente: Whedon’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments
What is said of the ephod of the high priest with the curious girdle, proves that this ornament differed from the common ephod which had no girdle. Thus Samuel when a child had an ephod, 1Sa 2:18 . And David when he danced before the ark, 2Sa 6:14 . But this of the high priest had a girdle. Probably in allusion to what is said of Jesus, Isa 11:5 . John saw the Lord Jesus thus cloathed. Rev 1:13 .
Fuente: Hawker’s Poor Man’s Commentary (Old and New Testaments)
Exo 28:14
Reciprocal: 1Ki 7:17 – General 1Ki 7:18 – General