Tabernacle, a tent, pavilion, or booth. In sacred history the tabernacle was a tent built as a portable sanctuary for the Jewish nation. The construction of this tabernacle of the congregation is described fully in Exodus xxv-xxvii and xxxvi-xxxviii. This Jewish tabernacle was quite a considerable affair. The tabernacle proper was of a rectangular shape, measuring about forty-five by fifteen feet and fifteen feet in height. This tent was surrounded by an inclosure or yard about 150 feet long and seventy-five feet wide. A curtain or screen, somewhat higher than the head of a man, surrounded the outer yard. The tent proper was divided by a veil into two chambers, an outer and an inner. The inner chamber was called the "holy of holies." Here the ark of the covenant and the mercy seat stood. The altar of incense, the table of shewbread, and the golden candlesticks stood in the outer chamber. An altar of burnt offerings and a laver for the washing of hands stood in the outer yard. The Israelites carried the tabernacle with them throughout their wanderings. Wherever they stopped the tabernacle was set up and the tribe pitched their tents about it in regular order. After the Israelites reached the Promised Land they set up the tabernacle in various places but chiefly at Shiloh. On the completion of Solomon's Temple the sacred vessels that were in the tabernacle were all removed by the Levites to their permanent resting place. The term "tabernacle" has been applied variously. In Biblical phrase, the human frame, being the abode of the soul, is spoken of as the "earthly tabernacle" as in II Cor. v: 1, "For we know that if our earthly house of this tabernacle were dissolved we have a building of God, an house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens." The Whitefield Chapel in London was known as the Tabernacle. The large church which Spurgeon's congregation built in the Newington district of London was known as the Tabernacle. Talmage and his congregation built a Tabernacle in Brooklyn.