IT is a very foolish fancy of some of the Jewish rabbin that this prophet was the son of the Shunamite woman that was at first miraculously given, and afterwards raised to life, by Elisha (2 Kings iv.), as they say also that the prophet Jonah was the son of the widow of Zarephath, which Elijah raised to life. It is a more probable conjecture of their modern chronologers that he lived and prophesied in the reign of king Manasseh, when wickedness abounded, and destruction was hastening on, destruction by the Chaldeans, whom this prophet mentions as the instruments of God's judgments: and Manasseh was himself carried to Babylon, as an earnest of what should come afterwards. In the apocryphal story of Bel and the Dragon mention is made of Habakkuk the prophet in the land of Judah, who was carried thence by an angel to Babylon, to feed Daniel in the den: those who give credit to that story take pains to reconcile our prophet's living before the captivity, and foretelling it, with that. Huetius thinks that that was another of the same name, a prophet, this of the tribe of Simeon, that of Levi: others that he lived so long as to the end of that captivity, though he prophesied of it before it came. And some have imagined that Habakkuk's feeding Daniel in the den is to be understood mystically, that Daniel then lived by faith, as Habakkuk had said the just should do: he was fed by that word, Hab. ii. 4. The prophecy of this book is a mixture of the prophet's addresses to God in the people's name and to the people in God's name: for it is the office of the prophet to carry messages both ways. We have in it a lively representation of the intercourse and communion between a gracious God and a gracious soul. The whole refers particularly to the invasion of the land of Judah by the Chaldeans, which brought spoil upon the people of God, a just punishment of the spoil they had been guilty of among themselves: but it is of general use, especially to help us through that great temptation with which good men have in all ages been exercised, arising from the power and prosperity of the wicked and the sufferings of the righteous by it.

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1: And Bezaleel made the ark of shittim wood: two cubits and a half was the length ofit, and a cubit and a half the breadth of it, and a cubit and a half the height of it:

2: And he overlaid it with pure gold within and without, and made a crown of gold to it roundabout.

3: And he cast for it four rings of gold, to be set by the four corners of it; even two rings upon the one side of it, and two rings upon the other side of it.

4: And he made staves of shittim wood, and overlaid them with gold.

5: And he put the staves into the rings by the sides of the ark, to bear the ark.

6: And he made the mercy seat of pure gold: two cubits and a half was the length thereof, and onecubit and a half the breadth thereof.

7: And he made two cherubim of gold, beaten out of one piece made he them, on the two ends of the mercy seat;

8: One cherub on the end on this side, and another cherub on the other end on that side: out of the mercy seat made he the cherubim on the two ends thereof.

9: And the cherubim spread out their wings on high, and covered with their wings over the mercy seat, with their faces one to another; even to the mercy seatward were the faces of the cherubim.

10: And he made the table of shittim wood: two cubits was the length thereof, and a cubit the breadth thereof, and a cubit and a half the height thereof:

11: And he overlaid it with pure gold, and made thereunto a crown of gold round about.

12: Also he made thereunto a border of an handbreadth round about; and made a crown of gold for the border thereof round about.

13: And he cast for it four rings of gold, and put the rings upon the four corners that were in the four feet thereof.

14: Over against the border were the rings, the places for the staves to bear the table.

15: And he made the staves of shittim wood, and overlaid them with gold, to bear the table.

16: And he made the vessels which were upon the table, his dishes, and his spoons, and his bowls, and his covers to cover withal, of pure gold.

17: And he made the candlestick of pure gold: of beaten work made he the candlestick; his shaft, and his branch, hisbowls, his knops, and his flowers, were of the same:

18: And six branches going out of the sides thereof; three branches of the candlestick out of the one side thereof, and three branches of the candlestick out of the other side thereof:

19: Three bowls made after the fashion of almonds in one branch, a knop and a flower; and three bowls made like almonds in another branch, a knop and a flower: so throughout the sixbranches going out of the candlestick.

20: And in the candlestick were four bowls made like almonds, his knops, and his flowers:

21: And a knop under two branches of the same, and a knop under two branches of the same, and a knop under two branches of the same, according to the six branches going out of it.

22: Their knops and their branches were of the same: all of it was one beaten work of pure gold.

23: And he made his seven lamps, and his snuffers, and his snuffdishes, of pure gold.

24: Of a talent of pure gold made he it, and all the vessels thereof.

25: And he made the incense altar of shittim wood: the length of it was a cubit, and the breadth of it a cubit; itwas foursquare; and two cubits was the height of it; the horns thereof were of the same.

26: And he overlaid it with pure gold, both the top of it, and the sides thereof round about, and the horns of it: also he made unto it a crown of gold roundabout.

27: And he made two rings of gold for it under the crown thereof, by the two corners of it, upon the two sides thereof, to be places for the staves to bear it withal.

28: And he made the staves of shittim wood, and overlaid them with gold.

29: And he made the holy anointing oil, and the pure incense of sweet spices, according to the work of the apothecary.
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