Charles Ellicott Commentary 1 Chronicles 28:17

"and the flesh-hooks, and the basins, and the cups, of pure gold; and for the golden bowls by weight for every bowl; and for the silver bowls by weight for every bowl;" — 1 Chronicles 28:17 (ASV)

Also pure gold for the fleshhooks, and the bowls, and the cups. —Rather, and the forks, and the bowls, and the flagons were (in the schedule or inventory) pure gold. (1 Samuel 2:13–14.) The bowls were used in lustral sprinkling, the golden flagons in libations (Exodus 25:29; Exodus 37:16; Numbers 4:7 only).

The golden basons. —Tankards, or lidded pitchers (kĕphôrîm): a word only found here and in Ezra 1:10; Ezra 8:27 (among the sacred vessels restored by Cyrus).

By weight. —By the (required) weight. The altar of incense stood within the Holiest (the Dĕbîr, or Adytum; Exodus 40:5).

And gold for the pattern of the chariot of the cherubims, that spread out their wings. —Rather, and for the model of the chariot, that is, the cherubim (he assigned) gold; namely, for beings spreading out (their wings) and overshadowing the Ark of the Covenant of Jehovah.

The two cherubs on the (kappôreth) above the Ark are here called “the chariot,” with obvious reference to such passages as Psalms 18:11, where it is said of God, He charioted on a cherub. (Compare also to Psalms 99:1.)

The rest of the verse describes the purpose of the symbolic cherubic figures, in terms borrowed from Exodus 25:20. (Compare also to Ezekiel’s vision, called by the Jews “The Chariot,”Ezekiel 1:0.)