From Nave’s Topical Bible
Span
Every passage the 1896 Nave’s Topical Biblegathers under this heading, in Nave’s own arrangement and then in Bible order. MannaFest has not written this page — it is the older index, transcribed, with the Word travelling beside each reference.
- 2Passages listed
- 1Books of the 66
- 1896Nave's edition
How Nave’s arranged it
- About nine or ten inchesExodus 28:16Exodus 39:9
The passages, in Bible order (2)
The same references, sorted Genesis to Revelation. The first 2 are quoted in full; the rest are one click beneath them, book by book.
- Exodus 28:16
It must be square when folded over double, a span long and a span wide.
Commentary on Exodus 28:162 voices
Four square it shall be, being doubled,.... That is, when it was doubled; for the length of it, according to Maimonides (c), was a cubit, which is two spans, and so, when it was doubled, was but one, and its length and breadth being alike, as follows: a span shall be the length thereof, and a span shall be the breadth thereof; a square, which is the measure, the form of the new Jerusalem, the church of Christ, Rev 21:16 and may denote the perfection, firmness, and immovableness of it, Psa 125:
John Gill· Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763)Reformed
Four-square it shall be - Here we have the exact dimensions of this breastplate, or more properly breast-piece or stomacher. It was a span in length and breadth when doubled, and consequently two spans long one way before it was doubled. Between these doublings, it is supposed, the Urim and Thummim were placed. See Clarke on Exo 28:30 (note).
Adam Clarke· Commentary on the Bible, 1832Evangelical
- Exodus 39:9
It was square when folded over double, a span long and a span wide.