Charles Ellicott Commentary 2 Chronicles 4:19

"And Solomon made all the vessels that were in the house of God, the golden altar also, and the tables whereon was the showbread;" — 2 Chronicles 4:19 (ASV)

(c) CATALOGUE OF OBJECTS IN GOLD—CONCLUSION (2 Chronicles 4:19 - 2 Chronicles 5:1). (1 Kings 7:48–50).

The narrative still coincides mainly with that of Kings, allowing for one or two remarkable alterations.

(19) For the house.—In the houses (without proposition, compare 2 Chronicles 4:11).

The golden altar also.—Literally, both the golden altar and the tables, and upon them the Presence bread. So Septuagint and Vulgate. The parallel passage, 1 Kings 7:48, says, and the table on which (was) the Presence bread (in) gold. (See Note on 2 Chronicles 4:8, above, and 1 Chronicles 28:16.)

On the one hand, the chronicler in these three passages consistently speaks of tables, although the book of Kings mentions one table only. On the other hand, elsewhere he himself speaks of “the Pure Table,” and “the Table of the Pile,” as if there were only one such table (2 Chronicles 13:11; 2 Chronicles 29:18).

The difficulty cannot be solved with certainty. However, it seems likely that, finding mention of a number of tables in one of his sources, the chronicler grouped them all together with the Table of Shewbread, thus gaining brevity at the cost of accuracy. In Ezekiel 40:39, eight tables of hewn stone are mentioned, on which they slew the sacrificial victims.