Numbers 7:67
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 the offering brought by the leader of Simeon on the day of the dedication of the altar, one silver charger weighing 130 shekels and one silver bowl weighing 70 shekels, both filled with fine flour mixed with oil for a grain offering. It belongs among the descriptions of the vessels and offerings of the sanctuary. The shekel of the sanctuary named in the weighing was the standard of weight in Israel.
The word sanctuary in the verse refers to the tabernacle erected by Moses in the wilderness of Sinai. That sanctuary was the building God claimed as His dwelling place and where His service was performed during the forty years Israel journeyed in the wilderness, carried by the consecrated Levites and set up wherever the Divine Presence in the cloud by day and pillar of fire by night directed the camp to pitch. The verse is one of fifty-six times during that wilderness wandering period when this building is called the sanctuary.