John Gill
INTRODUCTION TO Exodus 35 This chapter begins with a renewal of the command of the sabbath, Exodus 35:1 and contains an order for a freewill offering to be brought for the service of the sanctuary, and specifies the things to be brought, and for what uses, Exodus 35:4 to which there was a ready compliance, and men and women, princes and the common people, everyone according to what they had in...
John Gill
The ark and the staves thereof,.... To carry it with, which were all made of shittim wood: [with] the mercy seat; made of pure gold; these were set in the most holy place: and the vail of the covering; which divided between the holy and the holy of holies; of these see Exodus 25:10.
Matthew Henry
What should have been said and done upon Moses' coming down the first time from the mount, if the golden calf had not broken the measures and put all into disorder, now at last, when with great difficulty reconciliation was made, begins to be said and done; and that great affair of the setting up of God's worship is put into its former channel again, and goes on now without interruption. I. Moses...