Numbers 7:49
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 dedication offering described here was brought by one of Israel's leaders at the dedication of the tabernacle, consisting of a silver platter weighing one hundred thirty shekels and a silver bowl weighing seventy shekels, both filled with fine flour mixed with oil for a grain offering. Those weights were reckoned by the sanctuary shekel, which was the standard of weight in Israel.
The word sanctuary in this place denotes the portable wilderness tabernacle erected by Moses in Sinai fourteen hundred ninety years before Christ. It is one of fifty-six places where that wilderness building is so called. That sanctuary held the ark of the covenant, the mercy seat, and the glorious Shekinah. It formed the heart and center of Israel's religious worship under that typical system, and God claimed it as His dwelling place where His service was performed.
The verse belongs to the history of the sanctuary during the forty years of wandering. Through those years the Levites bore it along as the divine presence in a cloud by day and a pillar of fire by night directed where the camp should be pitched. It stands within Numbers 7 to 10, to be read on February 18, with self-examination about faithfulness in giving the invitation, Come thou with us, and we will do thee good.