{"id":2262,"date":"2022-09-23T23:37:48","date_gmt":"2022-09-24T04:37:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/exegetical-and-hermeneutical-commentary-of-exodus-2618\/"},"modified":"2022-09-23T23:37:48","modified_gmt":"2022-09-24T04:37:48","slug":"exegetical-and-hermeneutical-commentary-of-exodus-2618","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/exegetical-and-hermeneutical-commentary-of-exodus-2618\/","title":{"rendered":"Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Exodus 26:18"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 align='center'><b><i> And thou shalt make the boards for the tabernacle, twenty boards on the south side southward. <\/i><\/b><\/h3>\n<p> <strong> 18<\/strong>. <em> for the south side southward<\/em> ] lit., with not quite the same tautology as the English, <strong> towards<\/strong> (the) <strong> Negeb<\/strong>, <em> southward<\/em>. The &lsquo;Negeb&rsquo; (properly, as Aram. shews, meaning <em> dry land<\/em>) is a geographical term denoting the arid district in the S. of Judah (<span class='bible'>Gen 12:9<\/span> RVm., <span class='bible'>Jos 15:21<\/span>, and often); as this district was on the S. of Canaan, it became the most usual word in Heb. for &lsquo;south.&rsquo; Its use in the Pent. is an indication that this was written after Israel had lived long enough in Canaan for &lsquo;ngeb&rsquo; to have acquired this sense. The same pleonasm recurs in <span class='bible'>Exo 27:9<\/span>, and in the || ||, <span class='bible'>Exo 38:9<\/span>, <span class='bible'>Exo 36:23<\/span>, <span class='bible'>Eze 47:19<\/span>; <span class='bible'>Eze 48:28<\/span>; and there are similar ones in <span class='bible'>Exo 27:13<\/span> (|| <span class='bible'>Exo 38:13<\/span>), <span class='bible'>Num 34:15<\/span>.<\/p>\n<h4 align='right'><i><b>Fuente: The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n<p> <strong> 18 25<\/strong>. The number of frames for each side of the Dwelling, and the arrangements for holding them firmly in their place.<\/p>\n<h4 align='right'><i><b>Fuente: The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n<p><strong>And thou shalt make the boards for the tabernacle<\/strong>,&#8230;. As in the manner before described, so in number as follows:<\/p>\n<p><strong>twenty boards on the south side southward<\/strong>; which being a cubit and a half broad, made the length of the tabernacle fifteen yards according to the common account; but if these were cubits of twenty one inches, then its length was much greater.<\/p>\n<h4 align='right'><i><b>Fuente: John Gill&#8217;s Exposition of the Entire Bible<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n<p> Twenty of these boards were to be prepared for the side of the dwelling that was turned towards the south, and forty sockets (  foundations, <span class='bible'>Job 38:6<\/span>) or bases for the pegs, i.e., to put the pegs of the boards into, that the boards might stand upright; and the same number of boards and sockets for the north side.  , &ldquo;southward,&rdquo; is added to   in <span class='bible'>Exo 26:18<\/span>, to give a clearer definition of <em> negeb<\/em>, which primarily means the dry, and then the country to the south; an evident proof that at that time <em> negeb<\/em> was not established as a geographical term for the south, and therefore that it was not written here by a Palestinian, as <em> Knobel<\/em> supposes, but by Moses in the desert.<\/p>\n<p> The form of the &ldquo;sockets&rdquo; is not explained, and even in <span class='bible'>Exo 38:27<\/span>, in the summing up of the gifts presented for the work, it is merely stated that a talent of silver (about 93 lb.) was applied to every socket.<\/p>\n<h4 align='right'><i><b>Fuente: Keil &amp; Delitzsch Commentary on the Old Testament<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n<p>(18) <strong>On the south side southward.<\/strong>Rather, <em>on the south side to the right. <\/em>The tabernacle faced the east, and was regarded as looking in that direction. Thus its south wall was on the right.<\/p>\n<h4 align='right'><i><b>Fuente: Ellicott&#8217;s Commentary for English Readers (Old and New Testaments)<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n<p> <strong> 18<\/strong>. <strong> <\/strong> <strong> Twenty boards <\/strong> From this we learn the length of the <em> mishcan <\/em> or tabernacle of boards, namely, thirty cubits, (45 feet,) since each board was a cubit and a half wide . <span class='bible'>Exo 26:16<\/span>. <\/p>\n<p><strong> South side southward <\/strong> Or, <em> Negebward toward the right<\/em> <em> .<\/em> <em> <\/em> The person is supposed to face the same way as the structure, namely, to the east, in which case the south would be to his right.<\/p>\n<h4 align='right'><i><b>Fuente: Whedon&#8217;s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n<p> The costly furniture reminds us of what is said of the New Jerusalem, <span class='bible'>Rev 21:18<\/span> . But is not the whole intended to lead to Jesus? <span class='bible'>Rev 21:22<\/span> .<\/p>\n<h4 align='right'><i><b>Fuente: Hawker&#8217;s Poor Man&#8217;s Commentary (Old and New Testaments)<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n<p>side = Hebrew. pe&#8217;ah = region. <\/p>\n<h4 align='right'><i><b>Fuente: Companion Bible Notes, Appendices and Graphics<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n<p>Reciprocal: Exo 26:15 &#8211; boards Job 38:6 &#8211; foundations<\/p>\n<h4 align='right'><i><b>Fuente: The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>And thou shalt make the boards for the tabernacle, twenty boards on the south side southward. 18. for the south side southward ] lit., with not quite the same tautology as the English, towards (the) Negeb, southward. The &lsquo;Negeb&rsquo; (properly, as Aram. shews, meaning dry land) is a geographical term denoting the arid district in &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/exegetical-and-hermeneutical-commentary-of-exodus-2618\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Exodus 26:18&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2262","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-commentary"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2262","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2262"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2262\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2262"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2262"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2262"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}