A bekah for every man, that is, half a shekel, after the shekel of the sanctuary, for everyone who went to be numbered, from twenty years old and upward,...
And the sockets of the sanctuary were cast from the hundred talents of silver, and the sockets of the veil; a hundred sockets from the hundred talents, a talent for a socket.
Exodus 38:26,27
"When the account was taken of the number of the children of Israel the Lord commanded that every male over twenty years of age should pay half a shekel as redemption money, confessing that he deserved to die, admitting that he was in debt to God, and bringing the sum demanded as a type of a great redemption which would eventually be paid for the souls of the sons of men. So the truth was taught that God’s people are a redeemed people:
Observe that this redemption, must be personal and individual.
There was not a lump sum to be paid for the nation, or twelve amounts for the twelve tribes;
but each man must bring his own half shekel for himself.
So there is no redemption that will be of any use to any of you unless it is personally accepted and brought before God by faith.
Notice well that every Israelite man must be equally redeemed, and redeemed with the same amount, indeed, with the same redemption. “The rich shall not give more, and the poor shall not give less than half a shekel. Exodus 30:15” Every man requires redemption, the one as well as the other. Kings on their thrones must be redeemed as well as prisoners in their dungeons;
.....for out of all the grown-up males that were in the camp of Israel, when they set up the tabernacle, they all had a share in its foundation. We read: “And all the women who were wise-hearted spun with their hands, and brought what they had spun, both of blue, and of purple, and of scarlet, and of fine linen. And all the women whose heart stirred them up in wisdom spun goats’ hair.” [Ex 35:25,26]
The men could not spin, perhaps; they did not understand that art; but every man had his half a shekel in the foundation. .... have you by faith laid hold upon Christ and said, “He has paid the price for me?”
Charles Spurgeon
And the sockets of the sanctuary were cast from the hundred talents of silver, and the sockets of the veil; a hundred sockets from the hundred talents, a talent for a socket.
Exodus 38:26,27
"When the account was taken of the number of the children of Israel the Lord commanded that every male over twenty years of age should pay half a shekel as redemption money, confessing that he deserved to die, admitting that he was in debt to God, and bringing the sum demanded as a type of a great redemption which would eventually be paid for the souls of the sons of men. So the truth was taught that God’s people are a redeemed people:
Observe that this redemption, must be personal and individual.
There was not a lump sum to be paid for the nation, or twelve amounts for the twelve tribes;
but each man must bring his own half shekel for himself.
So there is no redemption that will be of any use to any of you unless it is personally accepted and brought before God by faith.
Notice well that every Israelite man must be equally redeemed, and redeemed with the same amount, indeed, with the same redemption. “The rich shall not give more, and the poor shall not give less than half a shekel. Exodus 30:15” Every man requires redemption, the one as well as the other. Kings on their thrones must be redeemed as well as prisoners in their dungeons;
.....for out of all the grown-up males that were in the camp of Israel, when they set up the tabernacle, they all had a share in its foundation. We read: “And all the women who were wise-hearted spun with their hands, and brought what they had spun, both of blue, and of purple, and of scarlet, and of fine linen. And all the women whose heart stirred them up in wisdom spun goats’ hair.” [Ex 35:25,26]
The men could not spin, perhaps; they did not understand that art; but every man had his half a shekel in the foundation. .... have you by faith laid hold upon Christ and said, “He has paid the price for me?”
Charles Spurgeon
