The Pulpit Commentary - 2 Chronicles 4:8
God's bounty and our response. 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" ( Exodus 25:30 ), continually... read more
The Pulpit Commentary - 2 Chronicles 4:8
Ten tables . These tables also (the use of which is given in 2 Chronicles 4:19 ) are not mentioned, so far as their making is concerned, in the parallel, except in its summary, verse 48 (cf. 1 Kings 7:1-51 .), where furthermore only one table, called "the table" ( Exodus 25:23 ), is specified, with which agrees our 2 Chronicles 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... read more