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2 Chronicles 4:8

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.

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Presbyterian pastor, 1798–1870

Barnes' Notes

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

Methodist theologian, 1762–1832

Adam Clarke

A hundred basons of gold - These were doubtless a sort of paterae or sacrificial spoons, with which they made libations.

Nonconformist minister, 1662–1714

Matthew Henry

2 Chronicles 4:1-10

David often speaks with much affection both of the house of the Lord and of the courts of our God. Both without doors and within there was that which typified the grace of the gospel and shadowed out…

Academic commentary, 1882–1921

Cambridge Bible

The Tables and Basons

8. ten tables In 2Ch 4:19 "the tables (plural) whereon the shewbread was set" are mentioned (cp. 1Ch 28:16), but the parallel place (1Ki 7:48) has "the table" (sing.), and…