Commentaries:
Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown
badgers' skins—The badger was an unclean animal, and is not a native of the East—rather some kind of fish, of the leather of which sandals are made in the East. [See on Exodus 39:34 and Ezekiel 16:10.]
shittim wood—or Shittah (Isaiah 41:19), the acacia, a shrub which grows plentifully in the deserts of Arabia, yielding a light, strong, and beautiful wood, in long planks.
Other Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown entries containing Exodus 25:5:
Exodus 25:23
Exodus 39:34
Numbers 4:6
1 Chronicles 29:5
Ezekiel 16:10
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