Keluaran 25:8

25:8 Let them make ¹  for me a sanctuary, ²  so that I may live among them.

Keluaran 25:2

25:2 “Tell the Israelites to take ³  an offering ⁴  for me; from every person motivated by a willing ⁵  heart you ⁶  are to receive my offering.

1 Tawarikh 6:18

6:18 The sons of Kohath:

Amram, Izhar, Hebron, and Uzziel.

Yehezkiel 48:35

48:35 The circumference of the city will be six miles. ⁷  The name of the city from that day forward will be: ‘The Lord Is There.’” ⁸ 

Zakharia 2:10

2:10 “Sing out and be happy, Zion my daughter! ⁹  For look, I have come; I will settle in your midst,” says the Lord.

[25:8]  ¹ tn The verb is a perfect with vav (ו) consecutive; it follows in the sequence initiated by the imperative in v. 2 and continues with the force of a command.

[25:8]  ² tn The word here is מִקְדּשׁ (miqdash), “a sanctuary” or “holy place”; cf. NLT “sacred residence.” The purpose of building it is to enable Yahweh to reside (וְשָׁכַנְתִּי, vÿshakhanti) in their midst. U. Cassuto reminds the reader that God did not need a place to dwell, but the Israelites needed a dwelling place for him, so that they would look to it and be reminded that he was in their midst (Exodus, 327).

[25:2]  ³ tn The verb is וְיִקְחוּ (vÿyiqkhu), the Qal imperfect or jussive with vav; after the imperative “speak” this verb indicates the purpose or result: “speak…that they may take” and continues with the force of a command.

[25:2]  ⁴ tn The “offering” (תְּרוּמָה, tÿrumah) is perhaps better understood as a contribution since it was a freewill offering. There is some question about the etymology of the word. The traditional meaning of “heave-offering” derives from the idea of “elevation,” a root meaning “to be high” lying behind the word. B. Jacob says it is something sorted out of a mass of material and designated for a higher purpose (Exodus, 765). S. R. Driver (Exodus, 263) corrects the idea of “heave-offering” by relating the root to the Hiphil form of that root, herim, “to lift” or “take off.” He suggests the noun means “what is taken off” from a larger mass and so designated for sacred purposes. The LXX has “something taken off.”

[25:2]  ⁵ tn The verb יִדְּבֶנּוּ (yiddÿvennu) is related to the word for the “freewill offering” (נְדָבָה, nÿdavah). The verb is used of volunteering for military campaigns (Judg 5:2, 9) and the willing offerings for both the first and second temples (see 1 Chr 29:5, 6, 9, 14, 17).

[25:2]  ⁶ tn The pronoun is plural.

[48:35]  ⁷ tn Heb “eighteen thousand cubits” (i.e., 9.45 kilometers).

[48:35]  ⁸ sn See Rev 21:12-21.

[2:10]  ⁹ sn This individualizing of Zion as a daughter draws attention to the corporate nature of the covenant community and also to the tenderness with which the Lord regards his chosen people.