2 Chronicles 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._ He made also ten tables - i:e., of show-bread for the temple....

Verse 2 Chronicles 4:8. _A HUNDRED BASONS OF GOLD_] These were doubtless a sort of _paterae_ or sacrificial spoons, with which they made _libations_....

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

EXPOSITION This chapter is occupied with some account of the _contents _of the house, following naturally upon the account of the structure, dimensions, and main features of the building given in the previous chapter. The parallel, so far as it goes, is found in 1 Kings 7:1. and 8. 2 CHRONICLES 4:1 AN ALTAR OF BRASS. This in worthier material superseded the temporary altar of the tabernacle (Exodus 27:1, Exodus 27:2), made of shittim wood, and its dimensions five cubits long and broad and three cubits high. Large as was the present altar of brass as compared with the altar

2 Chronicles 3:1....

CHAPTER 4 THE VESSELS THAT WERE FOR THE HOUSE _ 1. The altar of brass (2 Chronicles 4:1)_ 2. The molten sea (2 Chronicles 4:2) 3. The ten loaves (2 Chronicles 4:6) 4. The ten candlesticks (2 Chronicles 4:7) 5. The ten tables (2 Chronicles 4:8) 6. The court (2 Chronicles 4:9) 7. The work of Huram ...

2 CHRONICLES 4:1 FF. It is probable that the Chronicler, in describing the Temple furniture was influenced by what he saw in Zerubbabel's Temple. 2 Chronicles 4:9. the court of the priests...: the courts are described by the Chronicler as he saw them in his day; they were different in the first Temple (see 1 Kings 6:36; 1 Kings 7:12)....

BASONS. bowls for sprinkling....

The Tables and Basons 8. _ten tables_ In 2 Chronicles 4:19 "the tables (_plural_) whereon the shewbread was set" are mentioned (cp. 1 Chronicles 28:16), but the parallel place (1 Kings 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 (2 Chronicles 13:11; 2 Chronicles 29:18). Probably therefore the ten tables here mentioned were _not_for the shewbread. _basons_ These were used for dashing

3. BUILDING THE TEMPLE (2 Chronicles 3:1 to 2 Chronicles 5:1) TEXT 2 Chronicles 3:1. Then Solomon began to build the house of Jehovah at Jerusalem on mount Moriah, where Jehovah, appeared unto David his father, which he made ready in the place that David had appointed, in the threshing-floor of Ornan the Jebusite. 2. And he began to build in the second day of the second month, in the fourth year of his reign. 3. Now these are the foundations which Solomon laid for the building of the house of God. The length by cubits after the first measure was three-score cubits, and the breadth twenty cubits. 4. And the porch that was before the house, the length of it, according to the breadth of the house