Exodus 28:22-29 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

Bible Comments

What is said of the ephod of the high priest with the curious girdle, proves that this ornament differed from the common ephod which had no girdle. Thus Samuel when a child had an ephod, 1 Samuel 2:18. And David when he danced before the ark, 2 Samuel 6:14. But this of the high priest had a girdle. Probably in allusion to what is said of Jesus, Isaiah 11:5. John saw the Lord Jesus thus cloathed. Revelation 1:13.

Exodus 28:22-29

22 And thou shalt make upon the breastplate chains at the ends of wreathen work of pure gold.

23 And thou shalt make upon the breastplate two rings of gold, and shalt put the two rings on the two ends of the breastplate.

24 And thou shalt put the two wreathen chains of gold in the two rings which are on the ends of the breastplate.

25 And the other two ends of the two wreathen chains thou shalt fasten in the two ouches, and put them on the shoulderpieces of the ephod before it.

26 And thou shalt make two rings of gold, and thou shalt put them upon the two ends of the breastplate in the border thereof, which is in the side of the ephod inward.

27 And two other rings of gold thou shalt make, and shalt put them on the two sides of the ephod underneath, toward the forepart thereof, over against the other coupling thereof, above the curious girdle of the ephod.

28 And they shall bind the breastplate by the rings thereof unto the rings of the ephod with a lace of blue, that it may be above the curious girdle of the ephod, and that the breastplate be not loosed from the ephod.

29 And Aaron shall bear the names of the children of Israel in the breastplate of judgment upon his heart, when he goeth in unto the holy place, for a memorial before the LORD continually.