Matthew Poole and continuators on Exodus 25:37

37 And thou shalt make the seven lamps thereof: and they shall light the lamps thereof, that they may give light over against it .

Whom I shall appoint for that work.

(i. e.) Either 1. The table of Shew-bread. Or rather 2. The Candlestick, as it is expressed, Numb. 8. 2. where by the Candlestick you are to understand, as here verse 33. 34. the stem or main body of it, and the sense is, that the lamps shall be so placed, that they and their light may look towards that stem: unless you will suppose that the seven lamps were distinct and separated from the candlestick and fastned to the sides of the Tabernacle, in several places, and all giving light to or over against the great candlestick which was in the midst, as the candlestick did over against them, which is also now usual among us.

Marginal references: chap. 27. 20. and 3[illegible: 1+ letters]. 8. Lev. 24. 3, 4.; Or, cause to ascend.; Heb. the face of it.