SEV Biblia, Chapter 35:30
¶ Y dijo Moisés a los hijos de Israel: Mirad, el SEÑOR ha nombrado a Bezaleel hijo de Uri, hijo de Hur, de la tribu de Judá;
Clarke's Bible Commentary - Exodus 35:30
Verse 30. The Lord hath called by name Bezaleel] See this subject discussed at large in the note on chap. xxviii. 3, See the note on "chap. xxviii. 3", where the subject of superseding the work of the hand by the extra use of machinery is particularly considered. 1. FROM the nature of the offerings made for the service of the tabernacle, we see of what sort the spoils were which the Israelites brought out of Egypt: gold, silver, brass, blue, purple, scarlet, fine linen, rams' skins dyed red, what we call badgers' skins, oil, spices, incense, onyx stones, and other stones, the names of which are not here mentioned. They must also have brought looms, spinning wheels, instruments for cutting precious stones, anvils, hammers, furnaces, melting-pots, with a vast variety of tools for the different artists employed on the work of the tabernacle, viz., smiths, joiners, carvers, gilders, &c.
2. God could have erected his tabernacle without the help or skill of man; but he condescended to employ him. As all are interested in the worship of God, so all should bear a part in it; here God employs the whole congregation: every male and female, with even their sons and their daughters, and the very ornaments of their persons, are given to raise and adorn the house of God. The women who had not ornaments, and could neither give gold nor silver, could spin goat's hair, and the Lord graciously employs them in this work, and accepts what they can give and what they can do, for they did it with a willing mind; they were wise of heart- had learned a useful business, their hearts were lifted up in the work, ver. 21, and all felt it a high privilege to be able to put only a nail in the holy place. By the free-will offerings of the people the tabernacle was erected, and all the costly utensils belonging to it provided. This was the primitive mode of providing proper places for Divine worship; and as it was the primitive, so it is the most rational mode. Taxes levied by law for building or repairing churches were not known in the ancient times of religious simplicity. It is an honour to be permitted to do any thing for the support of public worship; and he must have a strange, unfeeling, and ungodly heart, who does not esteem it a high privilege to have a stone of his own laying or procuring in the house of God. How easily might all the buildings necessary for the purpose of public worship be raised, if the money that is spent in needless self-indulgence by ourselves, our sons, and our daughters, were devoted to this purpose! By sacrifices of this kind the house of the Lord would be soon built, and the top-stone brought on with shouting, Grace, grace unto it!
Matthew Henry Commentary
Verses 30-35 - Here is the Divine appointment of the master-workmen, that there migh be no strife for the office, and that all who were employed in the wor might take direction from, and give account to them. Those whom God called by name to his service, he filled with the Spirit of God. Skill even in worldly employments, is God's gift, and comes from above. But many are ready enough in cutting out work for other people, and can tell what this man or that man should do; but the burdens they bind of others, they themselves will not touch with one of their fingers. Suc will fall under the character of slothful servants. These men were no only to devise and to work themselves, but they were to teach others Those that rule should teach; and those to whom God has give knowledge, should be willing to make it known for the benefit of others __________________________________________________________________
Original Hebrew
ויאמר 559 משׁה 4872 אל 413 בני 1121 ישׂראל 3478 ראו 7200 קרא 7121 יהוה 3068 בשׁם 8034 בצלאל 1212 בן 1121 אורי 221 בן 1121 חור 2354 למטה 4294 יהודה׃ 3063
