Numbers 7:37
His offering was one silver charger, the weight whereof was an hundred and thirty shekels, one silver bowl of seventy shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary; both of them full of fine flour mingled with oil for a meat offering: His offering was one silver charger, the weight whereof was an hundred and thirty shekels, one silver bowl of seventy shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary; both of them full of fine flour mingled with oil for a meat offering:
The verse records one tribal leader's dedication offering for the tabernacle: a silver charger weighing 130 sanctuary shekels and a silver bowl weighing 70, both filled with fine flour mixed with oil for a grain offering. The phrase the shekel of the sanctuary specifies the standard by which the charger and bowl were weighed, showing that the tabernacle supplied Israel's standard of weight.
The verse calls the wilderness tabernacle the sanctuary. That sanctuary is the building Moses erected in the wilderness of Sinai 1490 years before Christ, with its ark of the covenant, mercy seat and glorious Shekinah as the heart and center of Israel's worship under the typical system, which God claimed as his dwelling place. That building was adapted to be taken down and borne by the Levites in their journeys during the forty years of wandering wherever the cloud by day and pillar of fire by night directed, and there its service was performed. The verse is one of fifty-six places where that building is called the sanctuary, and it therefore shows that the sanctuary accompanied Israel during the forty years of wilderness journeys and that the sanctuary and its service were part of Israel's worship during those journeys.