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.
Parallel translations
- WEB He made also ten tables, and placed them in the temple, five on the right side, and five on the left. He made one hundred basins of gold.
- BSB Additionally, he made ten tables and placed them in the temple, five on the south side and five on the north. He also made a hundred gold bowls.
- NKJV He also made ten tables, and placed them in the temple, five on the right side and five on the left. And he made one hundred bowls of gold.
- NASB He also made ten tables and placed them in the temple, five on the right side and five on the left. And he made a hundred golden bowls.
- NLT He also built ten tables and placed them in the Temple, five along the south wall and five along the north wall. Then he molded 100 gold basins.
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Quick answer
He makes ten tables placed in the temple and a hundred golden basins. Furnishings for the holy place are abundantly provided.
Overview
The ten tables, likely for the showbread, and the hundred golden bowls equipped the temple for its ongoing service. The abundance of golden vessels reflects the richness of Israel's worship. These furnishings supported the continual fellowship and offerings that pointed ahead to communion with God through Christ.
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- 1 Kgs 7:48And Solomon made all the vessels that pertained unto the house of the LORD: the altar of gold, and the table of gold, whereupon the shewbread was,
- Exod 37:10–16And he made the table of shittim wood: two cubits was the length thereof, and a cubit the breadth thereof, and a cubit and a half the height thereof:
- Exod 25:23–30Thou shalt also make a table of shittim wood: two cubits shall be the length thereof, and a cubit the breadth thereof, and a cubit and a half the height thereof.
- Isa 25:6And in this mountain shall the LORD of hosts make unto all people a feast of fat things, a feast of wines on the lees, of fat things full of marrow, of wines on the lees well refined.
- Mal 1:12But ye have profaned it, in that ye say, The table of the LORD is polluted; and the fruit thereof, even his meat, is contemptible.
- 1 Cor 10:21Ye cannot drink the cup of the Lord, and the cup of devils: ye cannot be partakers of the Lord’s table, and of the table of devils.
- Ezek 44:16They shall enter into my sanctuary, and they shall come near to my table, to minister unto me, and they shall keep my charge.
- Zech 14:20In that day shall there be upon the bells of the horses, HOLINESS UNTO THE LORD; and the pots in the LORD’s house shall be like the bowls before the altar.
- Jer 52:18–19The caldrons also, and the shovels, and the snuffers, and the bowls, and the spoons, and all the vessels of brass wherewith they ministered, took they away.
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