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Exodus 25:3

The Pulpit Commentary on Exodus 25:3

The Pulpit Commentary · Joseph S. Exell and contributors · Public domain

This is the offering—gold and silver and brass. Gold was needed for the overlaying of the boards, whereof the ark was composed (); for the "crown of gold," which surmounted it (ibid.); for the "rings" (); the "mercy-seat" ()—the cherubim (); the dishes, the spoons, the covers, the bowls (); the candlestick (); the tongs and snuff dishes (); the hooks and taches (, ); for the covering of the table of shew bread (); and of the staves and pillars ( : , ); and also for many parts of the dress of the High Priest (, , , , etc.). Silver was required for the sockets which supported the hoards of the Tabernacle (); and for the "hooks" and "fillets" of the pillars of the court () Brass, or rather bronze, was wanted for the "taches" which coupled together the curtains of the tent (); for the "sockets" which received the pillars or tent-poles (); for the external coating of the altar (); for the vessels and utensils of the altar (); for the covering of its staves (); for the sockets of the pillars of the Court (); for the "pins" of the Court (); and generally for the vessels of the Tabernacle (ibid.). To understand how the Israelites could supply all that was wanted, we must remember,

1. That they had a certain amount of ancestral wealth, as that which Joseph had accumulated, and what Jacob and his sons had brought with them into Egypt.

2. That they had received large presents of gold and silver from the Egyptians just before their departure (); and

3. That they had recently defeated, and no doubt despoiled, the Amalekites (). Whether they had further made money by trade since they entered the Sinaitic peninsula, may be doubted. The supposition is not at all needed in order to account for their wealth.

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