Numbers 7:55
His offering was one silver charger of the weight of 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 of the weight of 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 of the tribal offerings brought at the dedication, consisting of a silver charger weighing one hundred and thirty shekels and a silver bowl weighing seventy shekels. Both vessels were reckoned after the shekel of the sanctuary. Both were filled with fine flour mingled with oil for a grain offering. The mention of the shekel of the sanctuary shows that the tabernacle served as the standard of weight in Israel.
The building Moses erected in the wilderness of Sinai 1490 years before Christ is here called the Sanctuary, one of fifty-six times it is so called during that wilderness period. That Sanctuary held the ark of the covenant, the mercy-seat, and the glorious Shekinah. As God's claimed dwelling-place where His service was performed, it was the heart and center of Israel's religious worship under the typical system. It was adapted to their wandering condition, so that it could be taken down and borne in their journeys by the consecrated Levites during the forty years in the wilderness. It was erected wherever the Divine Presence, in a cloud by day and a pillar of fire by night, directed them to pitch their camp.