The altar and the court. “And you shall make the altar [for burnt offerings] of acacia wood, five cubits long and five cubits wide; the altar shall be square, and its height shall be three cubits. Exo 27:1
INTRODUCTION TO THE OLD TESTAMENT
The Nation Israel Delivered and Organized
III. ISRAEL AT SINAI, Exodus 19:1-40:38
4. Moses in the Mount; Directions for the Tabernacle, Exodus 24:12-31:18
51. What great truth finds expression in the brazen altar?
THE BRONZE ALTAR
“And you shall make the altar [for burnt offerings] of acacia wood, five cubits long and five cubits wide; the altar shall be square, and its height shall be three cubits.
Make horns (horn-shaped projections) for it on its four corners; the horns shall be of one piece with it, and you shall overlay it with bronze.
You shall make pots to remove its ashes, and shovels, basins [to catch the blood of the sacrificed animal], meat-forks, and firepans [to store live coals]. You shall make all its utensils of bronze.
Also make a grate for it, a network of bronze; and on the grid you are to make four bronze rings at its four corners.
And you shall put it under the ledge of the altar, so that the grid will extend halfway up the altar.
You shall make [carrying] poles for the altar, poles of acacia wood, overlaid with bronze.
The poles shall be inserted through the rings on the two sides of the altar so that it may be carried. [Num_4:14-15]
You are to make the altar hollow with planks; as you were shown on the mountain [of Sinai], so shall it be made.
THE COURT OF THE TABERNACLE
“You shall make the court of the tabernacle. The south side of the court is to have curtains of fine twisted linen, a hundred cubits long for one side;
it shall have twenty pillars and twenty bronze sockets; but the hooks of the pillars and their fasteners shall be silver;
likewise for the north side there shall be curtains, a hundred cubits long, and its twenty pillars and twenty bronze sockets; but the hooks of the pillars and their fasteners shall be silver.
For the width of the court on the west side there shall be curtains of fifty cubits, with ten pillars (support poles) and ten sockets.
The width of the court [to the front], on the east side shall be fifty cubits.
The curtains for one side [of the gate] shall be fifteen cubits with three pillars and three sockets.
On the other side [of the gate] the curtains shall be fifteen cubits with three pillars and three sockets.
For the gate of the court there shall be a screen [to provide a covering] of twenty cubits, of blue, purple, and scarlet fabric and finely woven [embroidered] linen, the work of an embroiderer, with four pillars and four [base] sockets.
All the pillars (support poles) around the court shall be joined together with silver rods; their hooks shall be of silver and their sockets of bronze.
The length of the court shall be a hundred cubits, and the width fifty [cubits] throughout, and the height five cubits of fine twisted linen, and their sockets of bronze.
All the tabernacle’s utensils and instruments used in all its service, nd all its stakes, and all the stakes for the court, shall be of bronze.
Comments by
F.B.Meyer
On
Exodus 27:1-19
THE ALTAR AND THE COURT
The brazen altar is dealt with long before any particular mention is made of the altar of incense, because the question of our relationship with God, through the death of our Lord on the Cross, must precede our fellowship with Him, and our successful intercession. Each of these altars was made of the same kind of wood, but in the case of the altar we are now considering, and which stood in front of the Tabernacle, the wood was encased in brass, that metal suggesting the severity of the sacrificial flame that burned at the Crucifixion, when Christ our Passover was sacrificed for us. Let us distinguish between these altars. We have passed beyond the one; we are called to minister perpetually at the other. The court was fifty yards long by twenty-five broad, and was formed by curtains of fine-twined yarn. There must be separation between God’s priests and the world. See 1Pe_2:5.
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