Bezaleel and his workmen are still busy, making I. The ark with the mercy-seat and the cherubim, Ex. 37:1–9. II. The table with its vessels, Ex. 37:10–16. III. The candlestick with its appurtenances, Ex. 37:17–24. IV. The golden altar for incense, Ex. 37:25–28. V. The holy oil and incense, Ex.

I. It may be thought strange that Moses, when he had recorded so fully the instructions given him upon the mount for the making of all these things, should here record as particularly the making of them, when it might have sufficed only to have said, in a few words, that each of these things was…

Here is, 1. The making of the table on which the show-bread was to be continually placed. God is a good householder, that always keeps a plentiful table. Is the world his tabernacle? His providence in it spreads a table for all the creatures: he provides food for all flesh.

Here is, 1. The making of the golden altar, on which incense was to be burnt daily, which signified both the prayers of saints and the intercession of Christ, to which are owing the acceptableness and success of those prayers.