Bible Strands
2 Chronicles 4:8
Additionally, he made ten tables and placed them in the temple, five on the south side and five on the north. He also made a hundred gold bowls.
Berean Standard Bible
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Study note
Setting — The text records the temple builder’s actions during the furnishing phase, following the placement of the lampstands and preceding the construction of the priestly courtyard. The words — שֻׁלְחָנוֹת (shul.cha.nOt) denotes the ten tables, and וַ/יַּנַּח (va/i.ya.Nach) specifies that he placed them within the temple structure. The thread — The tables connect to the tabernacle instructions in Exodus 25:23 and Exodus 37:10, and their placement in Solomon’s temple is paralleled in 1 Kings 7:48. Why it lands — The verse demands attention to the precise symmetry and deliberate arrangement of sacred furniture, requiring the reader to recognize the ordered provision for temple service.
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The Hebrew words
King James Version
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.
Cross-references
- 1 Kings 7:48 Solomon also made all the furnishings for the house of the LORD: the golden altar; the golden table on which was placed the Bread of the Presence;
- Exodus 25:23 You are also to make a table of acacia wood two cubits long, a cubit wide, and a cubit and a half high.
- Exodus 37:10 He also made the table of acacia wood two cubits long, a cubit wide, and a cubit and a half high.
- Isaiah 25:6 On this mountain the LORD of Hosts will prepare a lavish banquet for all the peoples, a feast of aged wine, of choice meat, of finely aged wine.
- Ezekiel 44:16 They alone shall enter My sanctuary and draw near to My table to minister before Me. They will keep My charge.
- Zechariah 14:20 On that day, HOLY TO THE LORD will be inscribed on the bells of the horses, and the cooking pots in the house of the LORD will be like the sprinkling bowls before the altar.
- Malachi 1:12 “But you profane it when you say, ‘The table of the Lord is defiled, and as for its fruit, its food is contemptible.’
- 1 Corinthians 10:21 You cannot drink the cup of the Lord and the cup of demons too; you cannot partake in the table of the Lord and the table of demons too.
- Jeremiah 52:18 They also took away the pots, shovels, wick trimmers, sprinkling bowls, dishes, and all the articles of bronze used in the temple service.