. A comprehensive dictionary of the Bible . prevent the rain penetrating throughthe joints. As the two cubits which were in excessat the W. hung at an angle, the depth of fringewould be practically about the same as on thesides. (5.) As to the disposition of the side-barsof shittim-wood that joined the boards together,the explanation hinted at above seems the mostreasonable—that the 5 bars named in verses 26,27, were joined end to end, as Josephus asserts, andthe bar mentioned in ver. 28 was the ridge-pole ofthe roof. The Hebrew will equally well bear the 1096 TEM TEM translation and the middl
. A comprehensive dictionary of the Bible . prevent the rain penetrating throughthe joints. As the two cubits which were in excessat the W. hung at an angle, the depth of fringewould be practically about the same as on thesides. (5.) As to the disposition of the side-barsof shittim-wood that joined the boards together,the explanation hinted at above seems the mostreasonable—that the 5 bars named in verses 26,27, were joined end to end, as Josephus asserts, andthe bar mentioned in ver. 28 was the ridge-pole ofthe roof. The Hebrew will equally well bear the 1096 TEM TEM translation and the middle bar which is between(instead of, in the midst of) the boards shallreach from end to end. Probably a ridge-polewas employed with supports. One pillar in thecentre where the curtains were joined would be sufficient, and if the centre-board at the back orthe Holy of Holies was 15 cubits high, the wholewould be easily constructed. (6.) Mr. Fergussonsupposes the sides of the Verandah which sur-rounded the Sanctuary were enclosed, for Solo-. mons Temple was surrounded on all sides but thefront by a range of small cells 5 cubits wide, inwhich resided the priests who were specially at-tached to the Temple-service, and such an arrange-ment would have been both easy and convenient atthe Tabernacle. Solomons Temple. It was David who first pro-posed to replace the Tabernacle by a more perma-nent building, but was forbidden for the reasonsassigned by the prophet Nathan (2 Sam. vii. 5, &c),
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