Exodus 37

AN this chapter Moses gives an account of the making 6f all the furniture of the taherna61c, with such exactness, as he describes the making of the tabernacle itself, in the’foregoing chapter: to shew that God’s directions about the making every thing was punctually observed; nothing being omitted or added, but all made according to the pattern in the mount, (xxv. 9. 40.) In which chapter most of the things here mentioned are explained; and there needs little to be added here.-

Exodus 37:1

And Bezaleel made the ark of shittim^wood, &c. Abarbinel fancies, that though other things were made by inferior artificers, whom Bezaleel directed; yet the ark, because of its dignity and pre-eminence, above all other things, was made by him, without the help of any other. And so Rambam also; from whence the Jews commonly called it (as Buxtorf observes), the ark of Bezaleel. But this hath no good foundation; for he is said to have made also every thing else in the tabernacle; the fable, and all its vessels: in short, every thing mentioned in this chapter, and in the next also, and in the foregoing, (ver. 10, 11, &c.) He therefore is said to have made the ark, &c. because he gave directions to the under workmen, and saw them make it. VeT. 10. And he made the table of shittim-wood, &c] Next to the ark, the mercy-seat, and the cherubiras whieh belong to it, the table and the vessels appertaining to it were the principal things within the tabernacle. See xxv. 23, &c. where all the things mentioned between this’ verse and the seventeenth arc explained. Vcr. 17. And he made the candlestick, be] The orders