1 Kings 7:49

And the candlesticks [ Exodus 25:31-37 ; Exodus 37:17-24 . According to Jewish tradition, the seven-branched candlestick was preserved in the temple in addition to the ten named here] of pure [Heb. shut ] gold, five on the right side and five on the left, before the oracle ["These are said to have formed a sort of railing before the vail, and to have been connected by golden chains under which, on the day of atonement, the high priest crept" (Dict. Bib. 1:249). The idea that the ten candlesticks rested on the ten tables mentioned in the Chronicles is. entirely groundless. Eleven tables would in that case have been necessary (Bähr). Besides we are distinctly told that the tables were for the shewbread ( 2 Chronicles 4:19 ), not for the candlesticks], with the flowers [ornaments of the candlestick ( Exodus 25:31 )], and the lamps [the seven extremities of the candlestick which held the oil and the wicks (verse 37). It is highly probable that the temple candlesticks were fashioned after that of the tabernacle], and the tongs

signifies to sprinkle, they were probably either for the water or the blood of sprinkling. Keil thinks they were for the wine of the libations], and the spoons [ כַפוֹת , lit; palms (of hands), hence used of shallow vessels ( Exodus 25:29 ; Numbers 7:84 , Numbers 7:86 . The last cited passage (cf. Numbers 7:14 , Numbers 7:20 , Numbers 7:26 ) shows that they were used for the incense (Le Numbers 24:7 , etc.), LXX . θυίσκαι ] , and the censers [or snuffers, extinguishers ; marg. ash-pans. In Exodus 25:38 the word is translated snuff, dishes. In Numbers 4:14 , Numbers 16:6 , it signifies censers, which may well be the meaning here] of pure gold; and the hinges [or sockets of the hinges (Gesen; Keil)] of gold, both for the doors of the inner house, the most holy place [Heb. for the holy of holies ] , and for the doors of the house, to wit, of the temple. [These were evidently of inferior (not pure ) metal.]