John Trapp on Nehemiah 10:33

Verſe 33. For the ſhewbread] Here are recited the ſeverall uſes whereunto that tribute or Impoſt was put: the half-ſhekel enjoyned by the Law being not enough, by reaſon the people were as yet ſo few. This though Junius denieth, yet the Hebrews all conſent about it.

To make an atonement] That is, an agreement, Heb. To cover or expiate; to purge away, or take away uncleanneſſe; to ſatisfie for ſin, and to pacifie wrath. By the Prieſts making atonement legally was typified Chriſts making reconciliation betwixt God and man; for he alone is the propitiation for our ſinnes, 1 John 2.2. But how much miſtaken were our Anceſtours in times of Popery,Act. and Mon. 1077. who built religious houſes, and gave large maintenance to them to buy off their ſinnes, to deliver their ſoules from hell, to fetch their friends out of Purgatory, &c.