Exodus 38:20

All the nails used for the House and the open space round it were of brass.

Bible in Basic English

In The King James Version

And all the pins of the tabernacle, and of the court round about, were of brass.

In Context

19There were four pillars with their bases, all of brass, the hooks being of silver, and their tops and their bands being covered with silver.

21This is the price of the making of the House, even the House of witness, as it was valued by the word of Moses, for the work of the Levites under the direction of Ithamar, the son of Aaron the priest.

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Cross References

2 Chronicles 3:9And fifty shekels weight of gold was used for the nails. He had all the higher rooms plated with gold.

Ecclesiastes 12:11The words of the wise are pointed, and sayings grouped together are like nails fixed with a hammer; they are given by one guide.

Isaiah 33:20Let your eyes be resting on Zion, the town of our holy feasts: you will see Jerusalem, a quiet resting-place, a tent which will not be moved, whose tent-pins will never be pulled up, and whose cords will never be broken.

Colossians 2:19And not joined to the Head, from whom all the body, being given strength and kept together through its joins and bands, has its growth with the increase of God.

Matthew Henry on Exodus 38:10-21

9 And he made the court: on the south side southward the hangings of the court were of fine twined linen, an hundred cubits: 10 Their pillars were twenty, and their brazen sockets twenty; the hooks of the pillars and their fillets were of silver. 11 And for the north side the hangings were an hundred cubits, their pillars were twenty, and their sockets of brass twenty; the hooks of the pillars and their fillets of silver. 12 And for the west side were hangings of fifty cubits, their pillars ten, and their sockets… Read the whole commentary →

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