Exodus 25:22

I will meet with thee] Hence the tabernacle is called the 'tent of meeting,' i.e. the place where Jehovah meets with Moses and Israel, not the place where worshippers assemble, as the AV rendering 'tabernacle of the congregation' seems to imply: see Exodus 29:42; Exodus 33:7.

23-30. The Table of Shewbread.

The ark alone stood in the innermost chamber. The table here described, on which lay twelve loaves (see on Exodus 25:30), stood in the second chamber, the Holy Place. On the Arch of Titus, still standing in Rome, there are sculptured the Table of Shewbread and the Golden Candlestick which the Emperor Titus carried off from the Temple, of Herod after the destruction of Jerusalem in the year 70 a.d. These were not the original table and candlestick, but were no doubt exact copies of them.