Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of 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 a hundred basins of gold.
8. 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 elsewhere both in Chronicles and in the rest of the O.T. one table only is assigned to the shewbread (2Ch 13:11; 2Ch 29:18). Probably therefore the ten tables here mentioned were not for the shewbread.
basons ] These were used for dashing the blood of the sacrifices against the altar.
Fuente: The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges
The number of the tables (see 2Ch 4:19) and of the basins, is additional to the information contained in Kings.
Fuente: Albert Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
Verse 8. A hundred basons of gold] These were doubtless a sort of paterae or sacrificial spoons, with which they made libations.
Fuente: Adam Clarke’s Commentary and Critical Notes on the Bible
Ten tables; of which see 1Ki 7:48.
Fuente: English Annotations on the Holy Bible by Matthew Poole
[See comments on 2Ch 3:1].
Fuente: John Gill’s Exposition of the Entire Bible
(8) He made also ten tables.Perhaps the golden candelabra stood upon them. (Comp. 1Ch. 28:16; and 2Ch. 4:19, infra.)
Side.Not in the Hebrew.
An hundred basons.Bowls for pouring libations (Amo. 6:6; same word, mizrqm). The Syriac and Arabic make the number of these vessels a hundred and twenty.
The ten tables are not mentioned in the parallel narrative, which speaks of one table only, viz., the table of shewbread (1Ki. 7:48).
Basons, or bowls, are spoken of in 1Ki. 7:45; 1Ki. 7:50 (mizrqth), but their number is not given.
Fuente: Ellicott’s Commentary for English Readers (Old and New Testaments)
2Ch 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.
Ver. 8. He made also ten tables. ] Lyra holdeth that all these were for shewbread, each of them having twelve loaves weekly set thereon, one hundred thirty-two in all. In our heavenly “Father’s house is bread enough.”
He made a hundred basons of gold.
Fuente: John Trapp’s Complete Commentary (Old and New Testaments)
basons = bowls for sprinkling.
Fuente: Companion Bible Notes, Appendices and Graphics
ten tables: Exo 25:23-30, Exo 37:10-16, 1Ki 7:48, Isa 25:6, Eze 44:16, Mal 1:12, 1Co 10:21
basins: or, bowls, Jer 52:18, Jer 52:19, Zec 14:20
Reciprocal: 1Ki 7:40 – the lavers 1Ch 28:16 – tables of showbread 2Ch 29:18 – the showbread Ezr 1:9 – chargers of gold Neh 7:70 – basins