ALtar] This Altar was not the Altar which served for oblation of Incense morning and evening but the Altar of burnt offerings made three cubits high, and five cubits square, placed not in the Tabernacle, but in the Court, (which sometimes is comprehended in the name of the Tabernacle) to the midst of its height (which had some Shittim wood about it) it was covered with brasse, but within was, as some conceive, filled up half way with earth or rough unhewen stones; or which is more probable by the description in the text, it was hollow unto the midst where the brasen grate was, upon which the daily sacrifice of a Lambe morning and evening was offered, Exodus 29:39. and other oblations of severall kinds and occasions. It was first consecrated with holy oyle, Numbers 7:1. and then other things set upon it were hallowed by it. Matthew 23:19. This Altar differed from such as were made of earth, upon extraordinary occasions, Exodus 20:24. for this was to continue for the constant service of the Tabernacle, which must not be so base and mean as the other, because the Tabernacle was glorious.