Its snuffers and its snuff dishes shall be of pure gold.
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Its snuffers and its snuff dishes shall be of pure gold.
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And the tongs thereof, and the snuffdishes thereof, shall be of pure gold.
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And the tongs thereof, and the snuffdishes thereof, shall be of pure gold.
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Passages linked to Exodus 25:38 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, ordered by reader-vote popularity; verse text shown in World English Bible.
- Exodus 37:23 He made its seven lamps, and its snuffers, and its snuff dishes, of pure gold.
- Numbers 4:9 “They shall take a blue cloth and cover the lamp stand of the light, its lamps, its snuffers, its snuff dishes, and all its oil vessels, with which they minister to it.
- 1 Kings 7:50 the cups, the snuffers, the basins, the spoons, and the fire pans, of pure gold; and the hinges, both for the doors of the inner house, the most holy place, and for the doors of the house, of the temple, of gold.
- 2 Kings 12:13 But there were not made for Yahweh’s house cups of silver, snuffers, basins, trumpets, any vessels of gold, or vessels of silver, of the money that was brought into Yahweh’s house;
- 2 Kings 25:14 They took away the pots, the shovels, the snuffers, the spoons, and all the vessels of bronze with which they ministered.
- 2 Chronicles 4:21 and the flowers, the lamps, and the tongs of gold that was perfect gold;
- Isaiah 6:6 Then one of the seraphim flew to me, having a live coal in his hand, which he had taken with the tongs from off the altar.
- Jeremiah 52:18 They also took away the pots, the shovels, the snuffers, the basins, the spoons, and all the vessels of bronze with which they ministered.
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John Trapp 1656 · Public Domain Exo 25:38 And the tongs thereof, and the snuffdishes…
Exo 25:38 And the tongs thereof, and the snuffdishes thereof, [shall be of] pure gold.
Ver. 38. And the tongs.] All of gold; betokening the purity of doctrine and discipline in the Church.
John Trapp, A Commentary or Exposition upon All the Books of the Old and New Testament (1647–1656) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.
Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary 1859 · Public Domain Put out, with the oil, &c. Nothing was to…
Put out, with the oil, &c. Nothing was to be treated with disrespect that had been dedicated to God’s service. (Haydock) --- Alexander adorned the temple of Apollo with a grand candlestick, resembling a tree laden with fruit; (Pliny, [Natural History?] xxxiv. 8,) and Dionysius the younger made a present of one to the prytaneum of Athens, which had 365 lamps upon it. They stood on the ground, and burnt oil, being the more necessary, as the ancient temples had generally no windows. The Egyptians, according to Clement of Alexandria (strom. 1,) were the first who introduced them into their temples. (Calmet) --- Solomon set up ten candlesticks, five on the north, and five on the south of the holy place, 3 Kings vii. 49.
George Leo Haydock (1774–1849), Haydock's Catholic Family Bible and Commentary, 1859 edition — public domain. Excludes Psalms (Douay-Rheims chapter numbering differs from Protestant) and Deuterocanonical books (Catholic canon only).
Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown 1871 · Public Domain
tongs--snuffers.
Jamieson, Fausset & Brown — Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871) — public domain (CC PDM 1.0). Text via the HelloAO Bible API.
Daniel D. Whedon 1874 · Public Domain 38. Tongs… snuffdishes — The one for snuffing and…
38. Tongs… snuffdishes — The one for snuffing and trimming the lamps, the other for holding the burned snuffings when removed from the wicks. These latter were a small sort of fire-pans or ash-pans. Comp. Exo_27:3. The exact form of these is nowhere described.
Daniel D. Whedon (gen. ed.), Commentary on the Old and New Testaments (1874–1909) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.
The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges 1878 · Public Domain 38. tongs] so Exo_37:23, Num_4:9, 1Ki_7:49 b (=2Ch_4:21 a),…
38. tongs] so Exo_37:23, Num_4:9, 1Ki_7:49 b (=2Ch_4:21 a), Isa_6:6†. In Isa_6:6 we should still say ‘tongs’ (the Heb. is lit. the two takers), but not in the other cases. Probably in all cases something of the nature of tweezers for drawing up the wick is meant (like the forcipes figured in Smith’s Dict. of Class. Antiq.3. i. 872): ‘snuffers,’ which in the case of a lamp we should naturally think of, represents a different Heb. word (1Ki_7:50 al.).
snuffdishes] so Exo_37:23, Num_4:9. The same word (lit. (fire-) catcher) is also used for what we should denote by the separate terms fire-pan (Exo_27:3 al.), and censer (Num_16:6 al.).
The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges (gen. ed. J. J. S. Perowne; Cambridge University Press, 1878–1918) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers 1878 · Public Domain (38) Tongs . . . snuffdishes.—“Tongs,” or pincers, were…
(38) Tongs . . . snuffdishes.—“Tongs,” or pincers, were required for trimming the wicks of the lamps, and removing loose portions; “snuffdishes” for receiving the fragments thus removed.
A Bible Commentary for English Readers, edited by Charles John Ellicott (1878–1897) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.
The Pulpit Commentary 1880 · Public Domain The tongs thereof. Tongs or pincers were required for…
The tongs thereof. Tongs or pincers were required for trimming the wicks of the lamps. Compare 1Ki_7:49; 2Ch_4:21. Snuff-dishes were also needed for the reception of the fragments removed from the wicks by the tongs. "Snuffers," though the word is used in Exo_27:2-3, in the place of tongs, had not been indented, and were indeed unknown to the ancients.
The Pulpit Commentary (1880–1919), ed. H.D.M. Spence-Jones & Joseph S. Exell — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.