Exodus 37:17

Then he made the support for the lights, all of the best gold; its base and its pillar were of hammered gold; its cups and buds and flowers were all made out of the same metal:

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In The King James Version

And he made the candlestick of pure gold: of beaten work made he the candlestick; his shaft, and his branch, his bowls, his knops, and his flowers, were of the same:

In Context

16And all the table-vessels, the plates and spoons and basins and the cups for liquids, he made of the best gold.

18It had six branches coming out from its sides, three from one side and three from the other;

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Cross References

Exodus 25:31And you are to make a support for lights, of the best gold; its base and its pillar are to be of hammered gold; its cups, its buds, and its flowers are to be made of the same metal.

Leviticus 24:4Let Aaron put the lights in order on the support before the Lord at all times.

2 Chronicles 13:11By whom burned offerings and perfumes are sent up in smoke before the Lord every morning and every evening; and they put out the holy bread on its table and the gold support for the lights with its lights burning every evening; for we keep the orders given to us by the Lord our God, but you have gone away from him.

Zechariah 4:11And I made answer and said to him, What are these two olive-trees on the right side of the light-support and on the left?

John 1:4What came into existence in him was life, and the life was the light of men.

Hebrews 9:2For the first Tent was made ready, having in it the vessels for the lights and the table and the ordering of the bread; and this is named the holy place.

Matthew Henry on Exodus 37:11-25

10 And he made the table of shittim wood: two cubits was the length thereof, and a cubit the breadth thereof, and a cubit and a half the height thereof: 11 And he overlaid it with pure gold, and made thereunto a crown of gold round about. 12 Also he made thereunto a border of an handbreadth round about; and made a crown of gold for the border thereof round about. 13 And he cast for it four rings of gold, and put the rings upon the four corners that were in the four feet thereof. 14 Over against the border were the… Read the whole commentary →

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