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. 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.
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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 a hundred basins of gold.
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- 1 Kings 7:48 Solomon made all the vessels that were in Yahweh’s house: the golden altar and the table that the show bread was on, of gold;
- Exodus 25:23-30 “You shall make a table of acacia wood. Its length shall be two cubits, and its width a cubit, and its height one and a half cubits. You shall overlay it with pure gold, and make a gold molding around it. You shall make a rim of a hand width around it. You shall make a golden molding on its rim around it. You shall make four rings of gold for it, and put the rings in the four corners that are on its four feet. the rings shall be close to the rim, for places for the poles to carry the table. You shall make the poles of acacia wood, and overlay them with gold, that the table may be carried with them. You shall make its dishes, its spoons, its ladles, and its bowls to pour out offerings with. You shall make them of pure gold. You shall set bread of the presence on the table before me always.
- Exodus 37:10-16 He made the table of acacia wood. Its length was two cubits, and its width was a cubit, and its height was a cubit and a half. He overlaid it with pure gold, and made a gold molding around it. He made a border of a hand’s width around it, and made a golden molding on its border around it. He cast four rings of gold for it, and put the rings in the four corners that were on its four feet. The rings were close by the border, the places for the poles to carry the table. He made the poles of acacia wood, and overlaid them with gold, to carry the table. He made the vessels which were on the table, its dishes, its spoons, its bowls, and its pitchers with which to pour out, of pure gold.
- Isaiah 25:6 In this mountain, Yahweh of Armies will make all peoples a feast of choice meat, a feast of choice wines, of choice meat full of marrow, of well refined choice wines.
- Ezekiel 44:16 “They shall enter into my sanctuary, and they shall come near to my table, to minister to me, and they shall keep my instruction.
- Zechariah 14:20 In that day there will be on the bells of the horses, “HOLY TO YAHWEH”; and the pots in Yahweh’s house will be like the bowls before the altar.
- Malachi 1:12 “But you profane it, in that you say, ‘Yahweh’s table is polluted, and its fruit, even its food, is contemptible.’
- 1 Corinthians 10:21 You can’t both drink the cup of the Lord and the cup of demons. You can’t both partake of the table of the Lord and of the table of demons.
- Jeremiah 52:18-19 They also took away the pots, the shovels, the snuffers, the basins, the spoons, and all the vessels of bronze with which they ministered. The captain of the guard took away the cups, the fire pans, the basins, the pots, the lamp stands, the spoons, and the bowls; that which was of gold, in gold, and that which was of silver, in silver.
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John Trapp 1656 · Public Domain 2Ch 4:8 He made also ten tables, and placed…
2Ch 4:8 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.
Ver. 8. He made also ten tables.] Lyra holdeth that all these were for shewbread, each of them having twelve loaves weekly set thereon, one hundred thirty-two in all. In our heavenly "Father’s house is bread enough."
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He made a hundred basons of gold.] To receive the blood of the sacrifices. The blood of Christ is most precious, and must not be trampled on.
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Matthew Poole 1685 · Public Domain Ten tables; of which see 1Ki 7:48.
Ten tables; of which see 1Ki 7:48.
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John Wesley 1765 · Public Domain Ten tables - Whereon the shew-bread was set, ver.…
Ten tables - Whereon the shew-bread was set, ver. 19. Perhaps each of these had twelve loaves on it. As the house was enlarged, so was the provision.
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Adam Clarke 1810 · Public Domain Verse 8. A hundred basons of gold] These were…
Verse 8. A hundred basons of gold] These were doubtless a sort of paterae or sacrificial spoons, with which they made libations.
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Albert Barnes 1834 · Public Domain The number of the tables (see 2Ch 4:19) and…
The number of the tables (see 2Ch 4:19) and of the basins, is additional to the information contained in Kings.
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The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges 1878 · Public Domain 8. The Tables and Basons
8. The Tables and Basons
8. ten tables] In 2Ch_4:19 “the tables (plural) whereon the shewbread was set” are mentioned (cp. 1Ch_28:16), but the parallel place (1Ki_7:48) has “the table” (sing.), and elsewhere both in Chronicles and in the rest of the O.T. one table only is assigned to the shewbread (2Ch_13:11; 2Ch_29:18). Probably therefore the ten tables here mentioned were not for the shewbread.
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basons] These were used for dashing the blood of the sacrifices against the altar.
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Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers 1878 · Public Domain (8) He made also ten tables.—Perhaps the golden candelabra…
(8) He made also ten tables.—Perhaps the golden candelabra stood upon them. (Comp. 1Ch_28:16; and 2Ch_4:19, infra.)
Side.—Not in the Hebrew.
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An hundred basons.—Bowls for pouring libations (Amo_6:6; same word, mizrâqîm). The Syriac and Arabic make the number of these vessels a hundred and twenty.
The ten tables are not mentioned in the parallel narrative, which speaks of one table only, viz., the table of shewbread (1Ki_7:48).
“Basons,” or bowls, are spoken of in 1Ki_7:45; 1Ki_7:50 (mizrâqôth), but their number is not given.
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The Pulpit Commentary 1880 · Public Domain Ten tables. These tables also (the use of which…
Ten tables. These tables also (the use of which is given in ver. 19) are not mentioned, so far as their making is concerned, in the parallel, except in its summary, ver. 48, (cf. 1Ki 7) where furthermore only one table, called "the table", (Exo_25:23) is specified, with which agreeszmi, 2Ch_29:18. It is hard to explain this variation of statement. It is at least an arbitrary and forced explanation to suppose that ten tables constituted the furniture in question, while only one was used at a time. Keil and Bertheau think that the analogy of the ten candlesticks points to the existence of ten tables. The question, however, is, where is the call for, or where are the indications of any analogy? A hundred basins of gold. The Hebrew word employed here, and translated "basins," is yqer) as also vers. 11, 22, infra; and 1Ki_7:40, 1Ki_7:45, 1Ki_7:50; Exo_27:3; Num_4:14; but it is represented as well by the English translation "bowls" in 1Ch_28:17; 2Ki_25:15; Num_7:13, Num_7:19, etc. The "pots," however, of our vers. 11, 16 has for its Hebrew twOrySih. It were well if, in names such as these, at any rate, an absolute uniformity of version were observed in the translation, for the benefit of the English reader, to say nothing of the saving of wasted time for the student and scholar. These basins, or bowls, were to receive and hold the blood of the slain victims, about to be sprinkled for purification Exo_24:6-8, where the word Ga is used; 29:12, 10, 20, 21; Lev_1:5, and passion; (Heb_9:18-20; see also Num_4:14) The Hebrew word qrzmi, whether appearing in our version as "basin" or "bowl," occurs thirty-two times, sixteen in association exactly similar with the present (viz. Exo_27:3 Exo_38:3; Num_4:14; 1Ki_7:40, 1Ki_7:45, 1Ki_7:50; 2Ki_12:13 2Ki_25:15; 1Ch_28:17; 2Ch_4:8, 2Ch_4:11, 2Ch_4:22; Neh_7:70; Jer_52:18, Jer_52:19; Zec_14:20) fourteen as silver bowls in the time of the tabernacle for the meat offering of "fine flour mingled with oil" (viz., Num_7:13, Num_7:19, Num_7:25, Num_7:31, Num_7:37, Num_7:43, Num_7:49, 55, 61, 67, 73, 79, 84, 85) and the remaining two in an entirely general application. (Zec_9:15) It is evident, therefore, that the qr; zmi was not the only vessel used for holding the blood of purification, nor was it exclusively reserved to this use.
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The significance of the table of shew-bread (of which Solomon, in his desire for fulness and richness of provision, now made ten) depends on its position and on the objects it was to sustain. The table stood in the "holy place," very near to the inner sanctuary, where the presence of God was symbolized; and it bore upon it the shewbread, or "bread of presence;" this was so called because it was "the shewbread before me always", (Exo_25:30) continually in the presence of God. There were also some vessels (Exo_25:29) which were probably intended to receive wine ("to pour out withal"), which was the ordinary accompaniment of bread, as the source of daily sustenance. The whole arrangement pointed to
I A CONTINUAL RECOGNITION OF DIVINE BOUNTY. The bread and wine which largely constituted and adequately represented the provision for the nation"s need were placed in the near presence of God, as the One from whom they came. It was well that the Israelites should be continually acknowledging that the fruit of the field was of Divine origin. They were very mindful and very proud of the great gift of the manna, which was a palpable and very remarkable provision from above a clear produce of the power and goodness of God. They would be in danger of thinking that there was less of the Divine in the annual harvest; for this was, in part, the result of their own labour, and came gradually, by ordinary and gradual processes of nature. But Divine goodness and power were as truly in the latter as in the former. From God himself came the soil, the seed, the sunshine, the rain, the airs and winds of heaven; from him came the power that made all these work together for the germination, growth, and ripening of the grain; from him also came the knowledge and the skill which enabled the farmer to cultivate his ground and to secure his harvest; it was also of God"s goodness that he required of his children the putting forth of these powers, both of body and mind, on the exercise of which so largely depended their health and character. The shewbread and the wine, standing where they stood, were a perpetual acknowledgment that all things which sustained and strengthened the nation came from the Lord their God.
II A SOLEMN DEDICATION OF HUMAN STRENGTH TO THE SERVICE OF GOD. It was significant enough that "pure frankincense was to be placed on each row" of the loaves or cakes. (Lev_24:7) "The offering of incense was embodied prayer, and the placing of a vessel of incense upon this bread was like sending it up to God on the wings of devotion" (Fairbairn"s "Typology"). It was, therefore, "a kind of sacrifice," and is spoken of (Lev_24:7) as "an offering unto the Lord." To present to God those things which are the recognized sources of sustenance and strength, is to acknowledge that our power and our resources belong to him and should be paid to him; it is, indeed, solemnly to dedicate them to his service in formal worship. We do the same thing now in our harvest thanksgiving services, and when we sing in the sanctuary hymns ascribing all our comforts and all our well-being to the good hand of our God. We only "perform our vows" when we dedicate to God, in daily life, the strength and the possessions with which he has enriched us; when we live in grateful remembrance of his love, in cheerful obedience to his will. in active and earnest endeavour to serve his children and extend his kingdom. C.
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