Exo 35:22, Deu 29:11-12, 31:11-12, 2Sa 6:19, Act 8:3, 12, 9:2, 22:4 | TSK | STEP | bracelets.{Chach,} either a hook or clasp to join garments together; {fibula,} as Montanus renders; or bracelets, which are hooked or clasped together; so Vulgate, {armillas.} tablets.{Kumoz,} as Bochart thinks, a kind of girdle, swathe, or zone. every man.

Exodus 35:22

bracelets.{Chach,} either a hook or clasp to join garments together; {fibula,} as Montanus renders; or bracelets, which are hooked or clasped together; so Vulgate, {armillas.}

32:3; Nu 31:50; Isa 3:19; Eze 16:11

tablets.{Kumoz,} as Bochart thinks, a kind of girdle, swathe, or zone.

every man.

1Ch 29:6,7; 2Ch 24:9-14; Ezr 2:68,69; Ne 7:70-72; Isa 60:9,13

Mt 2:11; Mr 12:41-44

Deuteronomy 29:11-12

stranger.

5:14; Ex 12:38,48,49; Nu 11:4

the hewer.

Jos 9:21-27; Ga 3:28; Col 3:11

thou shouldest.

5:2,3; Ex 19:5,6; Jos 24:25; 2Ki 11:17; 2Ch 15:12-15

enter. Heb. pass.This is an allusion to the solemn ceremony used by several ancient nations, when they entered into a covenant with each other. The victims, slain as a sacrifice on this occasion, were divided, and and parts laid asunder: the contracting parties then passed between them, imprecating, as a curse on those who violated the sacred compact, that they might in like manner be cut asunder. (Ge 15:10.) St. Cyril, in his work against Julian, shows that passing between the divided parts of a victim was used also among the Chaldeans and other people.

into his oath.

14; 2Ch 15:12-15; Ne 10:28,29