2-Chronicles - 4:8



8 He made also ten tables, and placed them in the temple, five on the right side, and five on the left. He made one hundred basins of gold.

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He made also ten tables, and placed them in the temple, five on the right side, and five on the left. And he made an hundred basons of gold.
Moreover also ten tables: and he set them in the temple, five on the right side, and five on the left. Also a hundred bowls of gold.
And he made ten tables, and placed them in the temple, five on the right hand and five on the left. And he made a hundred golden bowls.
And he maketh ten tables, and placeth in the temple, five on the right, and five on the left; and he maketh bowls of gold a hundred.
He made ten tables, and put them in the Temple, five on the right side and five on the left. And he made a hundred gold basins.
Moreover, there were also ten tables. And he placed them in the temple, five on the right, and five on the left. Also, there were one hundred gold bowls.

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Historical Commentaries

Scholarly Analysis and Interpretation.

The number of the tables (see 2-Chronicles 4:19) and of the basins, is additional to the information contained in Kings.

A hundred basons of gold - These were doubtless a sort of paterae or sacrificial spoons, with which they made libations.

Ten golden tables, corresponding to the ten candlesticks, and, like these, placed five on the right and five on the left side of the holy place. The tables were not intended to bear the candlesticks (Berth.), but for the shew-bread; cf. on 2-Chronicles 4:19 and 1-Chronicles 28:16. And a hundred golden basins, not for the catching and sprinkling of the blood (Berth.), but, as their connection with the tables for the shew-bread shows, wine flagons, or sacrificial vessels for wine libations, probably corresponding to the מנקּיּות on the table of shew-bread in the tabernacle (Exodus 25:29). The signification, wine flagons, for מזרקים, is placed beyond a doubt by Amos 6:6.

Ten tables - Whereon the shew - bread was set, 2-Chronicles 4:19. Perhaps each of these had twelve loaves on it. As the house was enlarged, so was the provision.

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