1 Kings 7:48

48 fecitque Salomon omnia vasa in domo Domini altare aureum et mensam super quam ponerentur panes propositionis auream

1 Kings 7:48 Meaning and Commentary

1 Kings 7:48

And Solomon made all the vessels that pertained unto the
house of the Lord
That is, he ordered them to be made, even all that were in the tabernacle of Moses; all were newly made, excepting the ark, mercy seat, and cherubim:

the altar of gold;
the altar of incense, which was made of cedar, covered with gold, ( 1 Kings 6:20 ) , hence called the golden altar, ( Revelation 8:3 )

and the table of gold, whereupon the shewbread was;
this includes all the tables, for there were ten of them, ( 2 Chronicles 4:8 ) where they are said to be placed, five on the right hand, and five on the left; which, according to the Jews F11, were not on the right and left of the temple, but on the right and left of the table of Moses, and which being placed on the north side, these must be also, ( Exodus 40:22 ) there being more tables in the temple than in the tabernacle may denote the greater provision of spiritual food in the word and ordinances of the Gospel church, of which the temple was a figure, than under the legal dispensation.


FOOTNOTES:

F11 T. Bab. Meuachot, fol. 98. Kimchi in loc. Targum in 2 Chron. iv. 8.

1 Kings 7:48 In-Context

46 in campestri regione Iordanis fudit ea rex in argillosa terra inter Socchoth et Sarthan
47 et posuit Salomon omnia vasa propter multitudinem autem nimiam non erat pondus aeris
48 fecitque Salomon omnia vasa in domo Domini altare aureum et mensam super quam ponerentur panes propositionis auream
49 et candelabra aurea quinque ad dexteram et quinque ad sinistram contra oraculum ex auro primo et quasi lilii flores et lucernas desuper aureas et forcipes aureos
50 et hydrias et fuscinulas et fialas et mortariola et turibula de auro purissimo et cardines ostiorum domus interioris sancti sanctorum et ostiorum domus templi ex auro erant
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